Urban Naturalisation

Mohamad, Kalsom and Wan Mohamed, Wan Srihani and Wan Ishak , Wan Sofia and Azmee, Nik Ariff (2010) Urban Naturalisation. Sustainable Tropical Environmental Design Exhibition (STEDex’10), 2. pp. 72-73. ISSN 2180-0685

Abstract

For their final semester in the Third Year, students are required to design building within an urban context. They started by creating an object in an urban setting and culminated with designing an office complex in the heart Kuala Lumpur. ANTI-OBJECT ‘…an object is a form of material existence distinct from its immediate environment.’ Kengo Kuma An architecture as an object is not necessarily bad but tends to compromise the possibilities of what it can do with its existence. Applying anti-object in architecture attempts to look at architecture not only by its physical forms but also the experiences and emotions that the architecture creates and evokes. Another way of looking at it is that, it is a narration of an architecture to its environment and users. This project requires students to design creative conceptual application through perceptual and experiential development and not merely from arbitrary forms or symbols. It is based on four conceptual functions: ACCRETION, BUOYANT, CAPRICE and DYSTROPHY. They are to apply a designated conceptual function architecturally unto a given site within an urban setting to resolve and develop the conceptual function with only the criteria of perception and experience.......[Read More]

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