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Size / 20m²
Location / Kuching, Sarawak
Status / Design Concept/Competition
Award / 3rd Prize (Graduate Architect Category)
Organizer / Pertubuhan Arkitek Malaysia Sarawak Chapter (PAMSC)
PAM Kuching Bus Stop Competition 2021
Size / 20m²
Location / Kuching, Sarawak
Status / Design Concept/Competition
Award / 3rd Prize (Graduate Architect Category)
Organizer / Pertubuhan Arkitek Malaysia Sarawak Chapter (PAMSC)
Size / 20m²
Location / Kuching, Sarawak
Status / Design Concept/Competition
Award / 3rd Prize (Graduate Architect Category)
Organizer / Pertubuhan Arkitek Malaysia Sarawak Chapter (PAMSC)
PAM Kuching Bus Stop Competition 2021
PAM Kuching Bus Stop Competition 2021
RE : KBS (Kuching Bus Stop), where 'RE' means RE-invent, RE-shape, and RE-imagine the future bus stop. This project discussed how the daily experience of commuters can be enhanced by redesigning the bus stop as a portal with meaningful activities, joy, and daily needs. As the public bus is getting less attractive due to several factors, such as safety, reliability (punctuality), and services, RE-designing a bus stop that helps to improve customer satisfaction and accessible services is crucial to promote public bus as an attractive mode of transport. Thus, the idea of this project is to transform the conventional bus stop into a more welcoming environment providing the public with a well-considerate and more secure design where it encourages them to use public transport more often. To design a bus stop for the local community in Kuching, a city with rich ethnic culture and history, the proposal was designed in a way it resembles the traditional houses from the local villages. To show the local identity of the city, the decorative side panels and elevated stilts were implemented as part of the bus stop design. The entire bus stop was elevated to prevent rainwater and debris accumulate inside the shelter. Furthermore, as the bus stop needs to be future-proof to adapt to the rapid development world, modular systems designs were incorporated to allow the design to be portable. With this system, modular blocks can be easily manufactured, assembled, dismantle and reuse where they could be built in different site conditions and enhance the circular economy in terms of the construction. With all the design strategies, the proposed bus stop design act as the catalyst, enriching the experience in Kuching city to enhance the lifestyle of the commuters meanwhile promote Kuching as a sustainable city.
RE : KBS (Kuching Bus Stop), where 'RE' means RE-invent, RE-shape, and RE-imagine the future bus stop. This project discussed how the daily experience of commuters can be enhanced by redesigning the bus stop as a portal with meaningful activities, joy, and daily needs. As the public bus is getting less attractive due to several factors, such as safety, reliability (punctuality), and services, RE-designing a bus stop that helps to improve customer satisfaction and accessible services is crucial to promote public bus as an attractive mode of transport. Thus, the idea of this project is to transform the conventional bus stop into a more welcoming environment providing the public with a well-considerate and more secure design where it encourages them to use public transport more often. To design a bus stop for the local community in Kuching, a city with rich ethnic culture and history, the proposal was designed in a way it resembles the traditional houses from the local villages. To show the local identity of the city, the decorative side panels and elevated stilts were implemented as part of the bus stop design. The entire bus stop was elevated to prevent rainwater and debris accumulate inside the shelter. Furthermore, as the bus stop needs to be future-proof to adapt to the rapid development world, modular systems designs were incorporated to allow the design to be portable. With this system, modular blocks can be easily manufactured, assembled, dismantle and reuse where they could be built in different site conditions and enhance the circular economy in terms of the construction. With all the design strategies, the proposed bus stop design act as the catalyst, enriching the experience in Kuching city to enhance the lifestyle of the commuters meanwhile promote Kuching as a sustainable city.
RE : KBS (Kuching Bus Stop), where 'RE' means RE-invent, RE-shape, and RE-imagine the future bus stop. This project discussed how the daily experience of commuters can be enhanced by redesigning the bus stop as a portal with meaningful activities, joy, and daily needs. As the public bus is getting less attractive due to several factors, such as safety, reliability (punctuality), and services, RE-designing a bus stop that helps to improve customer satisfaction and accessible services is crucial to promote public bus as an attractive mode of transport. Thus, the idea of this project is to transform the conventional bus stop into a more welcoming environment providing the public with a well-considerate and more secure design where it encourages them to use public transport more often. To design a bus stop for the local community in Kuching, a city with rich ethnic culture and history, the proposal was designed in a way it resembles the traditional houses from the local villages. To show the local identity of the city, the decorative side panels and elevated stilts were implemented as part of the bus stop design. The entire bus stop was elevated to prevent rainwater and debris accumulate inside the shelter. Furthermore, as the bus stop needs to be future-proof to adapt to the rapid development world, modular systems designs were incorporated to allow the design to be portable. With this system, modular blocks can be easily manufactured, assembled, dismantle and reuse where they could be built in different site conditions and enhance the circular economy in terms of the construction. With all the design strategies, the proposed bus stop design act as the catalyst, enriching the experience in Kuching city to enhance the lifestyle of the commuters meanwhile promote Kuching as a sustainable city.
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Location / Elini, Sardinia, Italy
Status / Masterplan Design Proposal/Competition
Award / Honorable Mentions
Organizer / Young Architects Competitions (YAC)
Collaborators / Liam Low Yong Ging, Ariel Flores & Amos Ng Tze Way
YAC Culture Stations International Competition 2021
Our proposal intends to adapt, connect and enlighten Elini off its status as a remote destination to an island of the 21st century. The Next Elini, is a proposition inspired by the potentials of Elini’s abandoned railway stations for a cultural, social and environmental agenda. The need to examine the city from a Next perception is informed by a degradation of population growth, inspiring us to reject conventional ways of urbanization in island towns. The potentials of Elini is promising with the events unfolding, climate change and a global pandemic anchoring the livelihood of many, the possibilities of expansion and urbanisation remotely will become a viable option. Our design proposal looks at The Next Elini as the Next Enlightenment, the potentials of a safely tucked away island in addressing our living conditions in a newfound reality. With this ideology in place, we explore the three anchoring themes which will inform our design decision and outcome.
The Next Elini will provide a framework of modern living induced with Sardinia's heritage and culture. Scenes of abandonment will transition into renewed landmarks for habitation and inspiration. The city will be enlightened from its agricultural pride into a modern machine for living. Infused by adaptable programs scattered throughout Elini, the township and cityscape of Elini can transition into a cultural centre for art and craft to prosper. This newfound form of connection will stem Elini as an island of the 21st century, a town of work and leisure that breathes Sardinia’s finesse; a locally ingrained society catered for a modern, global community.
concept.
is located in the Italian region of Sardinia, about 80km northeast of Cagliari and 11km southwest of Tortoli.
design development.
"enlightenment"
Just as the industrial revolution conceived the notion of transport in the form of steam engines and pre-stressed concrete sleepers, the essence of movement is yet again questioned and challenged in the 21st century. The notion of movement, a plausible commodity which has returned to a state of hedonism, challenges the position of Elini as more than just a remote pitstop. With the assistance of technological advancement, we intend to uncover Elini’s potential as a city of the future, through and by design.
"adaptation"
To rectify Elini’s credentials as a city of the future, the essence of adaptation needs to be quintessential, reflected through the design process off the railway station and its surrounding typologies. We believe in respecting the presence of existing culture and heritage, in which design interventions provide the opportunity for the old to synergize with the new. Remnants of the old railway station are not just retained but highlighted through careful tectonics and respectful materiality. The functionality of these abandoned stations will expand with thoughtful spatial planning and coordinated geometry, providing a design idea that is embedded in the characters of Elini.
"connection"
The essence of travel through locomotive devices can be traced back to the most primitive human need of physical contact, a tool for survival that has been widely conceived in the 21st century. Elini’s geographical construct has allowed the exploration of the nicest corners of the island, allowing the opportunity to address these nodal points as social platforms to bridge cultures and societies. The experience of locomotives is hence extrapolated to address the design opportunities around the island, providing genuine connection that will preserve yet exemplify Elini’s potentials as a city of the 21st century.
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