Category: Design 5 21/22
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Kluang’s Point of view
Kluang, in addition to its well-known railway station and excellent coffee from Kluang Rail Coffee, provides a welcome respite from the city’s bustle. Many of the historic buildings in town are nearly a century old and still have their original facades. The spectacular row of buildings in Bandar Kluang with various architectural styles and completion…
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Working on Kluang’s Climate
In current studio, I am working on the aspect of climate at Kluang in general, together with teammates from other workbases including a foreign exchange student from Indonesia. I was doing the study as usual as what I did previously, referring previous work and look for the data online. We searched climate information at Kluang…
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Start Designing
Start designing Presentation Board for our Workbase. It started with a simple idea from other sources (mostly from Pinterest). It may seem simple, but for me, this is one of the hardest parts of becoming an Archi Student. It must be interesting and at the same time, people must understand your intention through your board.…
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Findings in Kluang’s Neighborhood Context
Kluang is a really special place after I look at the information about the nearby buildings and especially the shoplots. Different from the well-organized urban area, Kluang is a city full of story that can be told through the rich variety of architectural style it had. Even with its variety, Kluang still portrayed a pattern…
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Kluang Site Analysis Process
Honestly ’til now still digesting the infos as there’s a lot of areas and contexts covered and still trying to grasp a full understanding for some parts. I think its also due to not being able to physically go to site and immersing myself with the analysis and synthesis process. Albeit the limitations of virtual…
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Impression of Kluang
2nd week of the first semester in third year with an overwhelming of informations from every subject as well as assignments. The site for this semester is located at Kluang Johor whereby the studio work base master insisted the team to look at it from a perspective that was never been thought of before by…
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Space Syntax and Site Mapping
Today we had a talk from two invited speakers on the theme of data collection, site analysis and synthesis. Dr. Sharifah of UTM MArch teaching team gave her talk entitled; ‘Space Syntax and the Development of Architectural Studio with Evidence-Based Design Decision Methods’ while Dr. Kristanti of Universitas Indonesia on ‘Site Mapping: An Inquiry’. Both…
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Kluang Site Visit
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Kluang Initial Site Discussion
First discussion on the macro and micro site. The site discussion were about the division of work of students at workbase (smaller groups) and design studio level to analyse and synthesize the site within a macro and micro scale. We look into the initial findings of the site, the action of works for further inquiry…
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Design 5 2021/2022
This semester the studio will be looking at how we could look at Kluang town in Johor as part of our research in possible future scenarios through series of narratives and images. This approach within Design 5 is to understand the potential of the town within a larger context of global issues and to design…
