ARCHITECTURAL

DESIGN PROJECT 1B:

Design Strategy and
Exploration

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Street Children of Chow Kit
More than 500 street children roaming and living off the streets (Alias, Bajunid, Abdullah,
2012)

Home is where their mothers work as Runaways from abusive homes. From marriages between locals and
prostitutes Many of them reported a foreigners and no valid documents,
background of family dysfunction. they are unable to enroll in schools
become “street kids”

Juvenile Delinquency in Malaysia

Increase number of 5305 cases
In 2012, 3399 and in 2013, 8704 cases. (Ministry of Home Affairs)
 Rehabilitation Theory in Adjudicating Child Offenders and its Application in
Malaysia

The theory focus personal change in the offender so that the can discontinue their criminal activities and is ready to return to
society (Sherman, 2002).

MAIN OBJECTIVE: Curing and saving them in a manner that benefits and caters to each different individual.
To shape the child’s behaviour from one that is not criminal in nature to one that is productive.

PSYCHIATRIST + COUNCELLING + THERAPY VOCATIONAL TRAINING DRUG REHABILITATION PROGRAMS

EDUCATION COMMUNITY SERVICE

 TWO stages of rehabilitation:
1. Offender’s trial at court • Should be given cognitive behavioural treatment
2. Programs at rehabilitation institutions • Education suited to his/her circumstances
• Treatments for mental health issues
YOUTH HOMELESSNESS • Connect them back to society
Why? Not safe at home, family life is too hard. • Involve family component

IMPACT

At Risk and Poor Health and Finding Jobs Mental Health Violence and Disrupted Education
Exhausted Nutrition Tough for Depression, Abuse Drastically affects
No home, no bed, no Can’t afford to eat disadvantaged anxiety, anorexia Often victims of their chances of
security and no, take young people under homeless assault and verbal achieving
risks for shelter conditions abuse qualifications.
No
education/training,
SOLUTIONS harder to find jobs

Housing Vocational Skills and Jobs Ongoing Support

Safe and sustainable Help them get ready for work Specialist support services in order to
accommodation is the first, crucial and find sustainable have the tools and confidence they need
step to breaking the cycle of employment. to live independently.
homelessness.
 MIND/BRAIN SPACES
These spaces will be used to
energize and exercise the
mind.
SOCIAL SPACES
These spaces will be used to
interconnect the people and
place

BODY SPACES SOUL/SPIRITUAL SPACES

These spaces will be used to These spaces will be used to
energize and exercise the interconnect the mind and
body. body
NARRATIVE

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is a film about an 18-year-old Jamal that grew up in a toxic environment along the streets.The film is
an inspiration for the center to reverse the toxic environment for the youth to have a better life. The film clearly shows the
character traits of idealism and hope on the one hand, and cynical survivals through Jamal and his brother Salim. They had
two different paths from the decisions they made throughout the film: Salim becoming a thug and killed, and Jamal trying
his best to make an honest living, getting the girl and winning $1,000,000. This is also an inspiration for the youth to better
themselves, their overall well being and grow as an individual through harmonization of the mind, body and soul. Slumdog
Millionaire also shows how people earn money for living through child trafficking, stealing, gangs and prostitution which
unfortunately is still happening. Therefore, to help the youth avoid getting involved or becoming victims of these issues, the
Centre aims to enhance the youth economic participation by providing spaces that offer skills and mentorship programs>
The center will integrate businesses, skills training and social interaction in a safe and healing environment. The activities
and opportunities offered in the space reflects the vibrancy of the center and help address the social economic problems in
the city.

Main User Group: 10 – 21 years (The Youth of Chow Kit)

 Project Impact:
This youth center will benefit not only the youth of Chow Kit but the local community as well. The Youth Centre will help
sustain the local businesses and provide sustainable income. It will help revive old businesses and provide job opportunities
for the community.

Example: Fresh fruits and vegetables Example: Reviving old businesses and providing job Example: Fresh ingredients used at
sold at the Market from the Youth opportunities, training, etc. the restaurants right across the
Centre's indoor farming street from the Youth Centre.
Form and Design Explorations
MODEL 1
MODEL 2

The greeneries at
the site creating a
Healing Garden being the
serene, healing
focal point of the site where
view.
all the main program spaces
face it to create a positive
healing view.
Centre for Urban Agriculture,
Seattle
(Vertical Farming)

- Edge of building embedded with self-

sustainability green wall.
- Used for urban farming

Application to City Lobby: Design Façade,

Open to public to educate, provide
awareness of self sustainability.
MODEL 3
FINAL MODEL 4
 Existing shophouses at the site to A normal block to be characterized
be integrated. by scale, elaborate spaces and
public square.

Community heart is created Claiming the site. Engaging Spaces.

as the focal point of the From identification of access from the site to The arrangement of the form allows every
centre. the Youth Centre, strengthen the connection space to have multiple interfaces and have
by stretching to the corners and the block is freedom to adapt to the context.
transformed into an organic plan in order to
preserve the existing trees – defined by the
gaps among them.

Human Behaviour/People Movement Context. Sense of Place.

Designated pathways for a safe environment
(integrating five foot walkway).
To create a continuity, ambiguous spatial
perception of in and out.
To become a dynamic social and green heart
for the youth and community. It also integrates
the shophouses to protect the local context.
Moreover, the building will allow green views
at the site without removing any trees.
Generate a strong sense of
place that benefits the location
and makes the best use of the
natural environment and man-
made structure.
Urban design inquiry/analysis and the
response to it

Site Plan
 Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah Elevation

The surrounding buildings at site are mostly made up of bricks.

Open Frontage Extended Function. Closed Frontage Glass Frontage Tinted Glass Frontage
Strong interaction with Open frontage and spill- Interaction only through Indoor and outdoor are Indoor and outdoor are
visual, smell, and sound out from shops into 5 ft small opening divided physically by the divided physically with
between people and walkway glass façade – only visual blocked visibility, gives
shops connection. privacy.

a Office Building, Teheran, Iran
The building is designed on 8x50m
plot to house 12 office units with
areas ranging from 80 to 170sqm.
In order to make the units more
inviting, a deck-like area between
the masses and before the main
lobby is created and is added to
the public in the street level.
 Site Response
Façade and Structure

Blocks rotated to open the view of the city to our

project. A second brick shell is added to control sun
radiation in the office units. Brick is used as a local
material and used in a modern style, as a warm color
and for more attraction. The arrangement of brick
columns is a response to urban openings around
the site. Wherever there is an appropriate view, brick
columns distance each other and frame the attractive
view.
 W E

Application to youth centre

The materiality of the façade uses bricks which can be found in the local context- shophouses at Chow Kit.

Bricks have a passive cooling feature that cools down the building.
 Catering to the Needs of Private Public
Communities?

Public and Private Spaces

Application to youth centre

Creating public spaces with open frontages/ extended function to attract the locals as well as visitors creating a strong
interaction in the sense of visual, smell and sound.
Concept: serve as a green lung and a place for diverse activities; a space that would form educated synthesis and maximum
interaction between government institutes, culture, recreation and leisure for both local citizens and guests.

Design Principles:
- Utilize the natural park topography
- Follow the language of the Jerusalem wadies (dry valleys)
- No reduction of ground surface
- Sustainability

The open space defined by this project creates a landscape system that allow the masses, locals and tourists, to enjoy its beauty
Site Response

The promenade (Public walk) , faces east and allows an actual architectural linkage between the old city and the
western modern one. In order to preserve the image of Jerusalem, and the natural elements, the form follows
the natural topography of the wadies.
Advantages
-Protect, environmental
Application to Youth Centre: aspects to be fully
exploited.
Preservation of trees by adapting building
design to the trees. Disadvantage:
Example: Form follows the gap between the - Space at site is not fully
trees at the site. utilized (but its not an
issue since public spaces
can be created)
Movement
Pattern
 VEHICULAR CIRCULATION PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION

Advantage:
Easy flow of access, safe
from public space, slows Advantage: Keeping the concept of 5ft
down traffic at the main walkway
roads.

Disadvantage: Might miss

the entrance

Type of Site Approach : Oblique

Glasshouse, Philip Johnson

Type of entrance:

Recessed Entrance
- Provide shelter and receive portion of
exterior space

- Can be signified by- 1. establishing two pillars

2. An overhead beam 3. Changing in level
NATURAL VENTILATION

1. Stack Effect Factors:

2. Wind Tower – only effective
where outdoor humidity is
low
3. Courtyard effect
4. Solar Chimney
5. Cross ventilation
1. Building orientation and shape – opening and air movement
2. External elements – building surroundings (trees)
3. Opening location and size – high and width of windows/openings
4. Opening control- types of openings

Stack Ventilation Cross ventilation

Stack ventilation depends on

thermal forces and difference in
temperature.
 Stack Ventilation Cross ventilation

Advantages Two openings, adjacent

1. Does not rely on wind walls
2. Naturally occurring force,
sustainable method.
3. Stable airflow
4. Greater control in choosing areas
of air intake

Disadvantages:
1. Relies on temperature differences
(inside and outside)
2. Design restrictions, costly.

Combination of Stack and Cross Ventilation

Programs
 Body Social Spaces
Mind
1. Organic Café 1. Lobby
1. Car/Bike
2. Gym Sauna 2. Entertainment
Workshop
3. Sauna Room
2. Local
4. Dormitory 3. Public Realm
Businesses
5. Indoor rock
(Shophouses)
climbing
3. Culinary Food Processing
Workshop Food Storage
4. Sewing
Workshop
5. Classrooms
6. Library (will
help the youth
Soul Ancillary Spaces
socialize with
1. Healing Garden
the society)
2. Indoor Farming 1. Reception
7. Resource
3. Multifunctional 2. Manager Office
Center
Studio (Aerial 3. Employee Lounge
Yoga, Martial 4. Washrooms/Toilets
Arts (self 5. Locker Rooms
defense class), 6. Storage
dance studio 7. M&E
4. Psychiatric Consultation 8. Service Area
Clinic Offices
5. Theatre
 Ground Service Parking
floor plan

Bike Parking

Area (m2)
Lobby and Organic
Café - 166
Gym- 384
Healing Garden-
124
Car Workshop-
223
Retail 1-63.4
Retail 2- 60.4
Barber- 60.4
Space behind the
shophouses- 80.7
Lockers and
Sauna- 92.6

Total- 1254.5
 Atrium + Stair
+ Reflection Healing Garden:
Provide relief from
psychological distress and
create an improved sense of
well- being. Preserve health
by improving indoor air
quality, connecting people
to nature.
Organic Café:
More profitable,
healthier, know where
their food comes from
and exactly what is in
it, positive impacts on
the economy through
job production and the
use of local farms and
businesses.

Fitness Center-
positive impact on
Female locker depression, anxiety, and
room + Sauna
ADHD. Relieves stress,
Gym
Male locker improves memory, helps
room + Sauna Disposal you sleep better, and
boosts your overall
Car/Bike
Healing Garden
Workshop
mood.

Reception Fire
Escape
Lobby + Organic Cafe Psychiatrist
M&E
Clinic/Consultation
Lift Legend
Retail Offices-
Fire
Escape Mind: build self-esteem, reduce
Consultation offices anxiety, strengthen
Public Retail Body
Realm
coping mechanisms, and
Soul improve social and
Psychiatrist Barber
Clinic community functioning.
Social
Spaces

Others:
 First floor
plan

Area (m2)
Classrooms– 232
Gallery- 165
Resource centre- 253
Culinary Workshop- 206
Theatre- 218
Sewing workshop- 202
Storage for sewing
workshop- 63.4

Total – 1339.4
 Wall + Public Space/Theatre
Having a creative outlet is not just Workshops- To help the
Reflection youth provide jobs and
+ Stair part of a well-rounded education
– it is essential for a child’s skills. Get them ready
emotional health and well-being. for work and find a
Self-Confidence sustainable
Literacy employment.
Communication/ Public Speaking
Classrooms- to feed
Community Awareness
the mind
Teamwork

Resource Centre-
Helping health workers
to understand the
Gallery context of their work,
Classrooms follow new approaches,
undertake new
Resource responsibilities, improve
Center
Pottery their practice and
Workshop
remind them of basic
Legend concepts.
Fire
Culinary Escape Mind:
Workshop Classrooms-
Body
Flexible
Fire
Lift Storage Soul learning
Escape
environment
Social
Spaces
Control room Theatre Sewing
Workshop Others:

Stage
 Second
floor plan

Area (m2)
Library– 232
Dormitory- 180
Entertainment room- 91.5
Resource centre- 253
Multipurpose Studio-206
Indoor farming- 218
Employee Lounge- 74.5
Offices- 84

Total – 1031
 Reflection + Constant
admiration of sky + Walls Offices- Library- to feed the
Each space faces
mind, connect
the healing garden
people together and
for a serene, healing
help the youth
view giving the
interact/socialize
users a sense of
with the society
being calm.

Indoor farming-
Directly help sustain
organic farmers and
in turn, help to
Women’sMen’s produce a stronger
Common Kitchen/ Dining
economy.
Library Female
Male
Dormitory
Dormitory Entertainment
Room
Employee
Offices Multifunctional Studio-
Lounge
Example: Aerial Yoga Studio
Legend works on strength, balance,
Multifunctional Fire Mind:
and coordination. It also
Studio Escape helps to quiet the mind and
Body increase focus. Has all the
Lift benefits of traditional yoga,
Soul
Fire Escape as well as the added benefits
Social of sensory input. strong
Spaces vestibular system, self
Indoor esteem and confidence,
Farming Others:
Tactile and proprioceptive
input (Dealing with emotions-
calm and anxious), strength,
attention and focus.
Basement
plan

Office

Services

Lift
lobby
Storage
 South Elevation

Shell Petrol Station SITE Pedes- Jalan

trian Pahang
Walkway
Section

Legend

Mind: Employee Library

Lounge
Body
Sewing Resource
Classrooms
Soul Workshop Centre
Social Healing
Retail
Spaces Car Workshop Gym
Garden
Others:
References:
• https://architectures.jidipi.com/a206675/sacher-park-cafe/
• https://www.archdaily.com/920444/saba-office-building-7hoor-architecture-studio?ad_medium=gallery
• https://centrepoint.org.uk/youth-homelessness/the-solution/
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042812005022
• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280977068_Juvenile_Delinquency_in_Malaysia
• https://mithun.com/project/center-for-urban-agriculture/