ARTEFACTS 3
TRANSACTIONS
2108 #T1
In the preliminary, students will be required to look into a reading list comprising
the following books:
1. the research question will be suggested amongst students and collectively
we shall try to cover as many ranging interests as possible. on the whole,
the following areas are recommended: sustainability, resilience, building
typologies, climate change and food crisis issues, advent of technology,
haptic and sensory perception, biophilia and our connection to nature
2. delineation techniques:
visualisation methods will be explored extensively to draw out the best
medium in which individual students can best draw out their ideas. the
following are references: James Stirling | Daniel Libeskind | Lebbeus
Woods | Massimo Scolari | Viktor Schauberger
1. finally, students are encouraged to research and look up the following
artists (and their writings): Donald Judd | Jackson Pollock | Jean Tinguely |
Irma Boom | Christo | Frida Kiehlo | Rodin | Carl Andre | Richard Deacon
2. and also, philosophical writings of the following people:
René Descarte | Henry David Thoreau | Peter Zumthor
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Key Plan & Location Plan
2. Site boundaries introduction
3. Site Context
4. Masterplan - Organism
a. How it works (Integration) - Riverfront
b. Social Return Benefits (functioning organism for
the neighbourhood - the parts make up the whole)
c. Transactions between Artefacts
5. Theses Proposals
a. Deconstructivism: Wholes and Parts
Master Thesis Research Question by Mike Liew Cherng Qing
b. Biomimicry: Symbiosis with Nature
Master Thesis Research Question by Foong Chee Shen
c. Water & Architecture: A Water Temple
Master Thesis Research Question by Loke Zhi Ming
d. Multisensory Perception: Rehabilitation for
Youth
Master Thesis Research Question by Johnnie Low Wing Chun
e. Ship of Theseus: Urban Co-Living Reimagine*
Master Thesis Research Question by Vincent Foong Wing Hoe
SITE: SENTUL
SENTUL BANDAR TITIWANGSA
SELATAN BARU
SENTUL
LOCATION KEY PLAN
PLAN
Bandar Baru Sentul
Proposed sites are
located in Bandar Baru
Sentul and bleeds into
Sentul Selatan.
Density in Bandar Baru
Sentul is intimate but
not overfilling; a
community with lots
of potential of
harmonious and
vigorous living.
Site Boundary
The site boundary comprise of 5 parcels.
Each student will work on their respective
thesis topic with the designated parcel,
ultimately forming a masterplan which
performs as a functional organism to the
neighbourhood.
PARCEL DATA
Parcel A - Liew Cherng Qing Parcel C - Loke Zhi Ming Parcel E - Foong Wing Hoe
➔ 31,500 sqm | 7.8 Acres ➔ 14,760 sqm | 3.6 Acres ➔ 12,500 sqm | 3.1 Acres
Parcel B - Foong Chee Shen Parcel D - Low Wing Chun
➔ 16,780 sqm | 4.1 Acres ➔ 18,900 sqm | 4.7 Acres
E
D
C
B
A
SITE CONTEXT
POINT OF
ARRIVAL
Arriving from Jln 3/48a,
sense of enclosure is immediate tunneling coming
from the vastness crossing the bridge due to high
density of vehicles, trees, and tall building.
Arriving from Jln 1/48a,
sense of continuity prevails until end of junction
where sudden change of land use and density turns
site an uninviting presence like back of house.
Arriving from Jln 2/48a,
sense of arrival feels like leaving a tunnel into an
open space, due to change in vegetation density and
above head canopy & train station.
Arriving from Jln Sentul,
sense of arrival is strong at junction on the primary
road, sense of purpose is strong for visitors with
reduction in travelling tempo into unhurried
secondary road.
A
B
C
Landmarks UTC Sentul (A) is located in walking distance to the
A LRT Station (C) making it easily accessible for the
communities. Providing a centralized location for core
government agencies, public amenities and services of
private sectors. Meanwhile the Community Hall (B)
provide different activities to be held by the locals.
BC
UTC Sentul, Community Hall, Sentul LRT Sentul
Community Centre
D
E
F
Multiple institutional and rehab buildings are found
within Bandar Baru Sentul, from welfare service to
community like MAKPEM (E) to Stroke
Rehabilitation Centre (D) and a nearby Juvenile
Rehabilitation Centre (F)
Institutional & Rehabilitation F
DE
Stroke Community National Council of Welfare Asrama Sentosa Kuala
Rehabilitation and Social Development Lumpur (Juvenile
Malaysia (MAKPEM)
Rehabilitation Centre)
H
G
I
Located between Parcel D and E, Masjid Amru Ibni
Al'As remains as one of the prominent religious
landmark that was built in 1997 that serve as a place of
worship for local muslim. As for the hindu
practitioner, they can find themselves at Arulmigu Sri
Maha Agni Muniswarar Temple.
Culture and Religious I
GH
Masjid Amru Ibni Arulmigu Sri Maha Agni Tomb of Sheikh Dato
Al'As Muniswarar Temple Harum Rashid & Siti
Zubaidah
P5
P4
P3
P2
P1
legend
lrt line
residential
welfare &
community
commercial
river
education
urban void
construction site
P5
P4
P3
P2
P1
legend LAND
commercial
residential
institution
public facility
river
urban void (site)
urban void
road
mixed development
COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
Medium - High End Residential
Bandar Baru Sentul houses the B40 (lower income group) community
with most of them living in low-cost & affordable housings that are
dominant of this region. Being a heavily residential & commercial zone,
there is almost a sense of peace and identity among the neighbourhood.
According to a property analysis website (propsocial.my, 2018), the
ethnic groups of Sentul is 53% Malay, 20% Chinese, 16% Indian and 11%
others or non-Malaysian.
Since the early 2000’s, YTL Land developed a masterplan and introduced
a new setting to Sentul - an effort to develop the forgotten part of the city.
What was proposed and built however seems to be alien to what Sentul
still is: from commercial office buildings to medium-high end
condominiums. A new demographic was attracted to Sentul, creating a
contrast and unfortunately the neighbourhood is undergoing
gentrification.
GOMBAK RIVER
Location of Master plan
along River Gombak
Hanum for D.I.D Malaysia 2018.
The portion of the river located along the proposed Masterplan is mainly Class III
in terms of Water Quality Index. While relatively suitable for tolerant species and
livestock drinking, more treatment is required to make the water suitable for
recreational usage.
MASTERPLAN -
ORGANISM
Compound Programme
Pedestrian Circulation Riverfron
t
Potential Integration
Proposal
As exercise, the parcels are
associated with proposed
integrations of joined
riverfront programmes,
connected pedestrian
circulation, and compound
programmes blurring
boundaries.
A Functioning Organism
The 5 parcels complement and supplement
each other. With each individual thesis
playing their respective parts, as a result, the
parcels would come together and perform
as a whole. A functional organism which
serves to contribute and improve the
community’s quality of life.
In the end product, all 5 parcels will be
connected into one Masterplan through
urban designs that include pedestrian
walkability and a riverfront passage.
Artefacts & Transactions
The Artefacts Cluster takes the opportunity to explore ideas
and relationships between Artefacts and Transaction.
Inquiring the relevance of Architecture as an Artefact, could it
be merely an end in itself ? Or rather it is a means to an end ?
The answers to such questions provide a lens to view
transaction. Therefore, Architecture as an Artefact could be a
medium for transaction, and yet it may also be seen as a
product of transaction.
For this cluster, Sentul was selected as a site for the Thesis
projects to investigate the notion of Transaction, and
through this process speculate Architectural possibilities.
Bearing such notions, themes such as the Re-evaluation of
Transactions via Deconstructivism, Transactions of the
sensorial and the rehabilitative, Nature/Architecture, are
included and remain part of the relevant interests to be
further explored.
PARCEL C / LOKE ZHI MING
Water & Architecture: A Water
Temple
“ I think Architecture is a physical manifestation of
existential realities - whether physical or spiritual, real
or imagined, antiquity or futurity. Therefore, I’d like
to keep an open mind to oscillate between these
realities. “
Mapping Meanings
The interest in Water
Metaphysical Drawing 1
Metaphysical Drawing 2
Water, Architecture, Space, Motions of Water,
Rhythms of Water….. Such things become
soft fascinations
Site C: A Green Field Adjacent to the Gombak River
It is rather acknowledged that with Water
Treatment Plants and Facilities, there appears
not a dire need or desperate situation for
obtaining potable or usable water. However,
such has brought evidence that the
transaction of humans with water are
relatively utilitarian, and our values of
water has changed much, as suggested by
Schauberger(Our ancestors see it as the source
of life, where today it is more so a chemical
substance for utilitarian purposes). Perhaps a
culmination of these could be observed in
the treatment of rivers, an important
source of life. Therefore, can architecture be
used as a medium to renegotiate man’s view
of water beyond the utilitarian ? Via sensory
perceptions, or via a phenomenological
experience with water ?
Research Questions:
How can Architecture as an Artefact articulate
Phenomenological transactions with water, and initiate
appreciation of water beyond the utilitarian level ?
Sub RQ 1 : How can a theme/themes be derived
to formulate narrrative of relationship between
water and man as partakers in a transaction ?
Sub RQ 2 : How can a framework of viewing water be
translated to allow inquiry of relationship between
water and Architectural elements ?
Sub RQ 3: How to synthesize spatial approaches that can
promote phenomenological/poetic/sensorial transactions
between water and humans ?
Man & Nature, Deriving themes from Parallels in Ruskin & Fukuoka’s writings
Ruskin Wellbeing Fukuoka
….quotation from Wordsworth is Alienated from nature,
Ruskin's claim that his knowledge human existence becomes a
of nature forces him to call men void, the wellspring of life
away from their petty self-interests and spiritual growth gone
to the reforming experience of utterly dry
the beauty of God's creation.
Ruskin was taught that the beauty Divine to return to nature and
of the natural world led to the side of God
awareness of God.
every feature of the landscape, Celebration . But the city dweller is dying;
every tree of the forest, every he has forgotten the bright rays
flower of the garden, every joint, of the sun, the green fields, the
and every muscle of my frame, all plants and animals, and the
are gifted with energy in sensation of a gentle breeze on
proclaiming there is a Supreme the skin. Man can live a true
Being; infinite in wisdom and life only with nature.
goodness, as well as in might' (II,
309). [25/26]
'The first sight of the Alps had been Only nature has the power to
produce something from
to me as a direct revelation of the Benevolent nothing. Farmers merely assist
nature.
benevolent will in creation
for the very depth of the Fall of Coexistence No matter how hard he tries,
Tyre has blinded them to its man can never rule over
reality, and we forget, as we watch nature. What he can do is
the bleaching of the rocks between serve nature, which means
the sunshine and the sea, that they living in accordance with
were once “as in Eden, the garden its laws.
of God.”
Mapping in Relation to Themes
The Poetic & the Spiritual Transactions from Nature & Architecture
Church on Water Kusatsu, Japan
Brion Cemetery Waterfall
Programme Potentials in Relation to Site
Religion Programme
Residential Programme
“An Extended Programme for Spiritual
Experiences, Therapy, Wellbeing and
interaction with Water “
The Hydrological Cycles
Evaporation
Evaporation occurs when the physical state of water is changed from a liquid
state to a gaseous state
Condensation
Condensation is the process by which water vapor changes it's physical
state from a vapor, most commonly, to a liquid
Precipitation
Precipitation is the process that occurs when any and all forms of water
particles fall from the atmosphere and reach the ground
Interception
Interception is the process of interrupting the movement of water in the chain of
transportation events leading to streams.
Infiltration
Infiltration is the physical process involving movement of water through
the boundary area where the atmosphere interfaces with the soil.
Percolation
Percolation is the movement of water though the soil, and it's layers, by
gravity and capillary forces.
Transpiration
Transpiration is the biological process that occurs mostly in the day. Water inside of
plants is transferred from the plant to the atmosphere as water vapor through
numerous individual leave openings.
Run Off
Runoff is flow from a drainage basin or watershed that appears in surface streams.
Storage
There are three basic locations of water storage that occur in the planetary water
cycle. Water is stored in the atmosphere; water is stored on the surface of the
earth, and water stored in the ground.
The Hydrological Cycles
An exploration drawing on the experiences of
Water, Space, & the Senses, a Water Temple.
Exploration Drawing
Theses Cluster
Mike Liew Cherng Qing
Foong Chee Shen
Jimmy Loke Zhi Ming
Johnnie Low Wing Chun
Vincent Foong Wing Hoe