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Facade Panel Construction Detail
Section B-B

Higher volume part refelcts prevailing Porous shading device allows part of
wind to lower volume to induce ventila- wind to pass through the volume to cre-
tion in the center part. ate cross ventilation.

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Shading device hinder the reflected sun- Glass dome act as the light chimney to
light from dome to prevent glare caused welcome sunlight to penetrate through it
to the internal space. in oder to brighten up the space.

Sectional Perspective N.T.S

Typical Section

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Water Supply Schematic Diagram
Sanitary Plumbing Schematic Diagram

Entrance

Roof Garden

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Exterior Perspective

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Butterfly Greenhouse

Laboratory

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Corridor
Solar Panel Farm

Butterfly Greenhouse

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Cafeteria

Gallery

Portfolio Video

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Indigenuos Resource Center
In Kluang

year 3 first semester project / 2021-2022-1

Kluang is a bustling service and transport centre dating back to
the days of British era. It was opened by the British in 1915 to serve
the interior areas of Johor. This landlocked town is surrounded by
wilderness and is located on the foothills of Gunung Lambak. The
town almost literally situated in the center of Johor making it as
the strategic transportation hub connecting other major towns in
Johor. It also serves one of the major rail hubs between southern
and northern Malaysia.

Do not expect the frontier vibe in this sprawling modern town, but
the nearby Gunung Lambak has provided a green backdrop and
has been a popular recreational spot in Kluang. Rubber and tim-
ber were the main contributors to the prosperity of town in 1930s,
these can be witnessed from the fascinating art deco and mod-
ernist buildings along the main streets.

Thus, the project called for A good 21st century Heritage Center
should be a good resource centre and “third place” for commu-
nities to gather, learn and share. It should be a social and an ed-
ucative hub integrating with new technologies to allow the local
community to explore and create interesting contents and share
with the public.

The main design idea is derived from the issue of diminishing lo-
cal Chinese tongue in Kluang, namely Kluang Mandarin. The main
cause of this problem is the standardization of language policy im-
plemented in primary and secondary school during 1980s, which
prohibited the student from speaking their native tongue in school
compound. This idea is then carried by students to their daily lives
which cause them afraid to speak in their native tongue anymore.
Thus , the purpose of the project is to study whether this form of
standardization is a way to unite or disconnect.

The Double Coding concept proposed by Charles Jencks is
taken as precedent because of incident of standardization
also happened in architecture industry before i.e. modern-
ist architecture try to implemented universalism to break away
the architecture from historical value. Same goes to the lan-
guage policy, where it strictly impose one dominant language
to try break people away from their native tongue. Therefore,
concept of double coding is used to derive the form to meet
the concept of the project namely Uniformity to Multiformity.

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Background Story

Kluang Mandarin is a popular Chinese language in Kluang, Johor,
Malaysia during the 1940s - 1980s. It is a northern Mandarin with
both Sichuan and Hakka accents. Originated from the Republic
of China during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggres-
sion, the Sichuanese escaped to Kluang, Malaysia, and become
a teacher and started to teach in Chong Hwa School at Jalan Yap
Tau Sah, Kluang.
Kluang Mandarin was started by students of Huaqiao School be-
fore WWII that mimicking the accent of a Sichuan teacher in the
school. Because of such a historical accident, a group of students’
games have developed into the lingua franca of the Kluang com-
munity in the next 40 years.
But the speakers of “Kluang Mandarin” are not limited to the Hak-
ka, and other Hakka settlements in Malaysia have not produced
similar Chinese variations, so we say that this is definitely not a
Chinese variation caused by the influence of Hakka dialects alone.

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Decline Due To Standard Education

Since 1980s, “Kluang Mandarin” has declined rapid-
ly, the internal cause is its social positioning of “vul-
gar and unconscionable’’, and the external cause
is the language education standardization policy
implemented in Malaysian primary and secondary
schools in 1982.

Grandchildren laugh at “weird Mandarin” which
caused older generation were ashamed to speak
Kluang Mandarin. But among old friends who are
accustomed to using Kluang Mandarin to communi-
cate.Since then, Kluang Mandarin has been labeled
as “wrong”; the group of teachers and students who
pursued “standard Mandarin” avoid it because they
afraid of the “bad effects”.

According to the case of Kluang Mandarin, Malaysia
was a home to a total of 138 different tongues, 41 of
them are founded in peninsular Malaysia, but some
of the tongues are starting to disappear in recent
year... Standardisation policy implemented in Malay-
sian primary and secondary schools in 1982 strictly
prohibit use of native tongues in school area. This
kind of idea was then carry along by the students
and implemented in their social lives and family
which cause the indigenous languages rarely used
in their daily lives...

Difference Between Kluang Mandarin and Standard
Mandarin

The pronunciation characteristics of
Kluang Mandarin are believed to start
from learning the accent of Sichuan
teachers and establish the founda-
tion through the Hakka dialect. The
combination of the two forms a spe-
cial variation, so it is different from the
general dialect variation and tends
to be a social variation. Overall, the
characteristics of Kluang Chinese
mainly occur in the variation of tones.

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Design Issues:

1) Most of the tongues in Malaysia in- 2) Standardised education create a 3) Mother tongues in modern society
cluded Kluang Mandarin are without gap between old and young genera- started to shift to dominant languages.
any documentary system. tion.

Design Objectives:

1) To provide a resource center that 2) To provide a place that young gen- 3) To provide an argument modern
preserve the local and other state’s in- eration would actually appreciate their society whether the shifting of lan-
digenuos linguistic and heritage. native tongue. guages should progress or reverse in
the future.

Ideation:

Historically,

Architecturally,

Precedent Study: Charles Jencks- Double Coding

67 "Post-modern architecture is characterized by a ‘double cod-
ing’ : two or more styles which co-exist and or self-mockery.

Postmodern architecture concentrated on forms
“derived from the mind (thinking), body (personal-
ity), city context (surrounding context), and nature

Multivalence, complexity & contradiction, memory & history,
radical eclecticism, universal in nature, ornamentation, meta-
phor and contexualism. "

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Form Development

Respect Ajar (Slightly Open) =Teach

The whole standard order is important, it should However, the current order can be punctured and
not be reversed or demolished. The intention here slightly open to make entry for other diversity.
is to understand the standard language also pro- Since the first order here is a cuboid, thus the di-
mote in unity of nation and therefore the form of versity can be imagined as the curve that is trying
the order should be cherished. to fuse with the cuboid to achieve unity.

Strengthen Celebrate

To achieve the curve to be fused with the cuboid The unity then can be celebrated with order and
uniformly, golden ratio is taken as reference. Thie diversity. A timber pole punctured out the roof re-
uniformity of golden ratio is formed by repetitive flecting the modern structure can be supported by
of spiral circle and portray sense of proximity and the indigenous pieces. A roof garden is also pro-
alignment. vided to promote more sense of freedom.

Facade Design:

The pattern of the preforated corian panel is designed in the half-tone order where the circle hole open slightly throught
out the facade. This is indicating the attitude of our future society whereter the people will same as the circle which slightly
open, or more open to indigenous language or slightly close up and continue the trend of shifting he native tongues to-
wards more dominant language in the future.

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Facade Form Finding:

Dynamo

Conceptual Mass Process
Main Project File
The slightly open like half-tone facade is control by dynamo
in revit. The intention for doing this is to achieve two main
objectives i.e., to obtain more accurate half-tone opening
effect and to construct parametric model for further mod-
ification. Overall, the process involves in creating one
“square circle” adaptive curtain panel family and import
them into conceptual mass environment for the facade’s
divided surface. Then, the process is repeated four times
and all the mass are imported into the main project file for
assembling on the building.

Key Plan Location Plan

N.T.S N.T.S

Site Introduction

The proposed site is situated adjacent to the old Kluang train station where the famous Kluang Rail Coffee is located. A
new elevated ETS intercity train station is being built 100m away from the proposed site. Currently the old station is empty
and the building will be preserved under the National Heritage Acts 2005. The lands along the railway tracks and rails are
under railway reserved. Students will study the development policy imposed by the KTM on the railway reserved.

Site Analysis

An elongated form would be suitable to face to North West and South East direction to receive high frequency wind in
order to induce ventilation. Since, transistion park is located at the South East, an open space is proposed at such place in
oder to build up connectivity between these two zones and direct the pedestrian to the shophouses region. besides, the
car park is proposed to be located at the North West location so that it could alongside with the multi-level car park. The
longest period of shadow casted area is proposed to be used as landscape for outdoor activities.

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Site Plan

Ground Floor Plan

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First Floor Plan

South East Elevation

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Second Floor Plan
South West Elevation

Roof Garden Floor Plan

North East Elevation

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Corian Panel Fastener Detail Wood Joinery Detail

North West Elevation

Section A-A

Sectional Perspective

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Section B-B

N.T.S

Typical Section

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Services Diagram
N.T.S

North West Perspective

South West Perspective

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Pebble Garden

The timber pole symbolises the indigenous language that seems are punturing out of the concrete roof. This indicating
the indigenous pieces try to survive from the modern material which is concrete. The message wants to delivered here
is our modern society was supported by the native people before. The dome roof is covering the whole library until the
pebbele garden, which the dome roof acts as the sound magnifier to create a sound echoing space, where the intention
is to encourage people not to shy to speak out their indigenous language in this building.

Library

Cafe

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Borrowing Counter
Bookshleves

Roof Garden

Recording And Shooting Studio

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Balcony

Personal Study

Portfolio Video

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SOU FUJIMOTO ARCHITECT
OFFICE

year 2 final semester project / 2020-2021-2

The project is all about designing a office for the Architect that is
chosen by the student. The office should be functional working
office and also as the learning hub and exhibition space thet suit
the client design design principle and philosophies.

The project also involve the student to consider about the envi-
ronmental responsive architecture factor so that a design that is
eco-friendly and sustainable design will be the final product of this
final project.

Moreover , the offices should also encouraging the social inter-
active space and provide conducive working and learning envi-
ronment so that the client and the imaginary users will have the
interaction with internal users and thus the external user of the
building too.

The required space for this project are drop off,lobby, reception
center, event space, office space, reading resources center con-
ference room, interaction rooms, discussion area,materials room,
filing storage, pantry, washrooms, surau, loading area and other
supporting building service.

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Client Brief:

Profile August 4th 1971

Date of birth:

Place of birth: Hokkaido, Japan
Education:
University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering Department
of Architecture (Barchelor)

Fujimoto Sōsuke Fujimoto known as one of the most talented architects of the new generation in
藤本 壮介 Japan. Where he initiates a daily poetic revolution with “primitive, future, ambig-
uous” by viewing architecture in a very destructive way of thinking. He explores
the possibilities of future residence by reconstructing the relationship between
man and nature and recovering architecture back the original state of human
habitation.

Precedent Studies: House N Rental Space Tower

Ecole Polytechnique Learning Centre

Fujimoto uses a prism form louvered The porous square boxes make the Private space are stacking up to cre-
roof to create an interactive space in domestic space can be observed from ate a focus in the center which form a
between the nature and the built en- the street view which also create an central public shared space.
vironment. ambiguous space for the home owner.

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Concept:

Exploring In Between Space and Purpose of Living

Since Fujimoto san very into exploring the in between, therefore the purpose of this concept is to find alternative to make
between two spaces existed an interesting space so that to encourage people to walk out from fixed place to a neutral
area where all the people are there to interact freely. Thus, The objectives is to blur the boundries between public and
private, street and domestic space, nature and built environment so that the users can not only interact with the internal
people but also the stranger coming from or passing through the building.

Conceptual Form:

The form of the building is imitating the form of the
Torii gate, a Japanese gate most commonly found at
the entrance of or within a Shinto shrine

Site Analysis: Neighbouring Context
Climate
The site serves as the mid point
that links to several neighbour-
ing context. Mass human move-
ment are predicted to be passed
through the site as a shortcut
to other contect. Thus, it is sig-
nificant to create a linkage and
provide passage to mass human
movement in the future. There-
forem the strategy is to open up
a landscape so that the interac-
tion between the people can be
linked by passing through the
site.

Vegetation

Sensory Zoning

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