ADP Project 1a- Pre Design Study

2. HOW WILL A COLLABORATIVE SPACE CONTRIBUTE TO THE
IDENTITY OF THE SITE
HOW WILL A COLLABORATIVE SPACE CONTRIBUTE TO THE
IDENTITY OF THE SITE
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BRYAN LIAW YAU VERN 0326627
CHERILYN CHIA
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CHIA KE CHAIN
ESTHER OO
0326915
MUHAMMAD MIRZA
0324031
RACQUEL OOI
0326676

3. HISTORICAL MORPHOLOGY
how the city of Chow Kit has changed
1980s
2000s
2 0 1 8 ?

4. URBAN MORPHOLOGY 1980
1980s
Even during the 90s, Chow Kit has
already been known for being a dense
city. A few free-standing buildings
have begun to emerge to cater for the
growing city.
2000s
Modern development rates have rapidly
increased as commercial becomes a
focus on site.
2018 (PRESENT)
The domination of new development and
modernisation leaning towards corporate
purposes, resulting in the lack of
community life.
TIMELINE
past to present of Chow Kit

5. PAST
(1980s) Site Plan of Chow Kit (Not to Scale)

6. PRESENT
(2018)
Site Plan of Chow Kit (Not to Scale)

7. GROUND LINE
PRESENT (2018)
OLD SKYLINE
NEW SKYLINE
PAST (1980s)
SKYLINE

8. PRECINCT
Chow Kit Precinct
Kampung Bharu Precinct
River of Life Precinct
SITE
N

9. Commercial
Educational
Corporate
SITE
N
DISTRICT

10. SITE
N
BUILDING TYPE
Complex
Free standing
Terrace

11. SITE REQUIREMENTS
according to project brief & DBKL

12. 1:6
Plot Ratio
1:8
Expected Plot
Ratio of site:
1:8
EXPECTED INTENSITY 2020
Act as major commercial city centre
with public facilities and utilities
Source: KLCP, 2020
SITESITE
N

13. N
Total area = 1575.8 sqm.
Plot ratio = 1:8
Max built-up area = 12606.4 sqm
Minimum 21 car parking spaces

14. N
VIEWS TO SITE
SITE

15. SITE
N
VIEWS FROM SITE

16. SUNPATH 1000HRS
S
I
T
E

17. SUNPATH 1400HRS
S
I
T
E

18. SUNPATH 1700HRS
S
I
T
E

19. SITE
SPECIAL CHARACTER ZONE
Preservation of shophouses, scale
and town continuity
Source: DBKL, 2013
N

20. VEGETATION
According to Urban Design Guidelines KL:-
Green screening and landscape are highly encouraged Landscaping must be maintained for safety reasons
1
2
3
List of trees: (1) Acacia mangium (2) Samanea saman (3) Maniltoa browneoides
PARKING SECURITY & PRIVACY

21. SOCIO-TEMPORAL DIMENSION
Time-based relationships
in the social setting of Chow Kit

22. S
I
T
E
MORNING 10AM
Work +
Schooling Hours
Chow Kit, Jalan
Sultan Ismail; as of
September 2018

23. NOON 12PM
S
I
T
E
Lunch hour
Chow Kit, Jalan
Sultan Ismail; as of
September 2018

24. Low
vehicular
traffic
After office hours
Chow Kit, Jalan Sultan Ismail; as
of September 2018
S
I
T
E
NIGHT 8PM

25. SITE INTERACTION
within site

26. HOW WILL
A COLLABORATIVE WORKING SPACE
AFFECT OUR SITE
COLLABORATIVE WORKING SPACE
?

27. SITE ISSUE: REPETITIVE BUILDING TYPE
Would the co-working space be utilized ?

28. COARSE GRAIN FABRIC
within site adjacency
Large city blocks
act as
‘fortresses’
Blocking
themselves from
public realm,
isolating street
pedestrians
Emphasis on
buildings’
individuality;
economy,
politics...
Inhospitable for
interaction
Urban fabric of Chow Kit, Jalan Sultan Ismail
Site
Chowkit, Jalan
Sultan Ismail
N

29. “Just another
workspace”
Low quality of public realm from
high building enclosure;
resulting to the absence of the
socio-cultural element, lacking
of pedestrian-friendly
environment.
“Uninteresting”
Another new development with
a ‘workspace’ notion may
appear uninteresting to the
people due to the many
corporate buildings with similar
singular functions.
REPETITIVE BUILDING TYPES
within site adjacency

30. Work + Live + Play = ?
With the repetitive pure-working
environment, there may be a
challenge for the people to adapt to
a multifunctional space, where
contrasting elements of work and
play come together.
“Play first,
work later”
The issue of adaptation to a
multifunctional workspace may
unintentionally be misused to a
mere play-space, thus losing its
primary function of being a
workspace.
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Play, may come primary.
Work, may come secondary.
CHALLENGE TO ADAPT
can these contrasting elements combine?

31. CONGREGATION OF ALL USERS ARE
DISTINCT AT DIFFERENT DISTRICTS …...
Would all users
be benefitted by the co-working space?

32. Commercial
Educational
Corporate
White Collar
Underutilised Building
SITE
- Mostly utilised by white collars
- Generalised perception of a
workspace
- Underutilised existing workplaces
N

33. Commercial
Educational
Corporate
Underutilised Building
SITE
Student
- Students gather around educational,
corporate & commercial districts at
different timings
White Collar
N

34. Commercial
Educational
Corporate
Underutilised Building
SITE
Blue Collar
- Blue collars are concentrated in the
commercial district & does not move
to corporate area
Student
White Collar
N

35. Commercial
Educational
Corporate
White Collar
Underutilised Building
SITE
Student
Blue Collar
Visitor
- Visitors linger around hotels and
around site to Bukit Bintang area.N

36. Commercial
Educational
Corporate
White Collar
Underutilised Building
SITE
Student
Blue Collar
Visitor
N
- White collar is the dominant user
- Collaborative workspace may
amplify dominance of white collars

37. SITE POTENTIAL
Platform for new entrepreneurs and
provides job opportunities

38. SOCIETY SEGREGATION
Life in the fast lane
“Economizing on time becomes more urgent and
life becomes more hurried and harried," (Walmsley
et.al, n.d.)
Laid-back living
Slower pace of living, lesser competition in economy
and politics

39. N

40. COARSE GRAIN

41. FINE GRAIN

42. Commercial
Educational
Corporate
Site
District
ABSENCE
OF VARIETY
in land-use
Coarse
grain: large
city blocks
being
isolated
from public
realm
“Politics
&
Economy”
High intensity of
White Collars

43. PRESENCE
OF VARIETY
in land-use
Fine grain:
smaller shoplots
with variety of
commercial
activities
resulting to
higher social
interaction
“Home,
restaurants, local
businesses,
entertainment…”
Commercial
Educational
Corporate
Site
District
High intensity of
Blue Collars

44. CULTURAL ACTIVITIES
around the site of Chow Kit

45. Freelancers
Local
talents
Young
entrepreneurs
Malaysian freelancing economy
has grown by
31%
making Malaysia the 3rd
largest freelancing market in
the region.
(The Employees Provident Fund
EPF, 2017).
Freelancing
has
become quite a
large contribution
in the
Malaysian economy.
(Favser.com 2018)
Various careers
in coworking
space
Element of
variety
Attracts all
society classes
PROVISION OF JOB OPPORTUNITIES
in a co-working space

46. A CO-WORKING SPACE
to bridge the gap of society segregation
+
+
+
+
+
++
Variety
Sustainable
mixed
community
Live
+
Work

47. M U L T I - U S E D
S P A C E S
O F F I C E S
PROVIDES NETWORKING
OPPORTUNITIES
Offices around Chow Kit
have rigid working hours
(9am-5pm), this offers
easy networking
opportunities at most
times.
OFFERS ROBUSTNESS
Can be used for many
different purposes offer
their users more choice
than places whose design
limits them to a single
fixed use.
N

48. M U L T I - U S E D
S P A C E S
O F F I C E S
SITE
N
PROVIDES NETWORKING
OPPORTUNITIES
Offices around Chow Kit
have rigid working hours
(9am-5pm), this offers
easy networking
opportunities at most
times.

49. FLEXIBLE WORKFORCE
NETWORKING
OPPORTUNITIES
With the nature of high change of market dynamics in Chow Kit, Flexible workspaces thus become crucial
to account for all major restructuring of work force.
+
=
GREATER EFFICIENCY
INCREASED
CREATIVITY

50. SITE POTENTIAL
Permeability

51. Accessibility to City Network through urban roads and railways.
Urban network are well connected to the city fabric.
Accessibility to city networks through available transport modes (MRT,LRT,bus)
Corridors (pedestrian walkways) allow for connection to the
surrounding programmes
MAIN PATH INNER
PATH
SITEPEDESTRIAN WALKWAY
MOVEMENT PATTERNS & ACCESSIBILITY
CIRCULATION AROUND
SITE
N

52. S
I
T
E
CLUSTERED
OFFICES
= NETWORKING
The work connections between a
site and its surroundings are
important as it offers
networking for the site due to
CONVENIENCE.
+ VEHICULAR
PATH AND
WALKWAYS

53. CLUSTERED
OFFICE
TYPOLOGY
VS
CASE A
HOTELLING’S LAW
SCATTERED
OFFICE
TYPOLOGY
CASE B
Hotelling's law is an
observation in economics
that in many markets it is
rational for producers to
make their products as
similar as possible. This is
also referred to as the
principle of minimum
differentiation as well as
Hotelling's linear city model.
Hotelling, Harold (1929), "Stability in Competition" (PDF), Economic Journal, 39 (153): 41–57, doi:10.2307/2224214

54. SITE POTENTIAL
Protagonist for the surroundings

55. Current Situation:
SURROUNDING SITE CONTEXT ACTS AS
TRANSITIONAL SPACETRANSITIONAL SPACE

56. SITESITE
Human activity can be seen to the
north and south of Chow Kit thus
very low optional activities on site
causing less social interactions
ACTIVITY NODE
N
Vehicular Node
Activity Node
Pedestrian passerby
People involved in activity

57. WHY
would there be no chance of optional activities?

58. RAISED ENTRY
EXISTING GROUND FLOOR CONDITION
SITESITE
N

59. More possibilities for social interaction.
Caters for necessary, optional and social activities.
Increased privacy
STAIRWAYS
AS PASSAGE
STAIRWAYS AS SEATINGS
POTENTIAL SOLUTION TO
INCORPORATE ON SITE

60. EXISTING GROUND FLOOR CONDITION
BLOCKED VISION
N
SITE

61. SITESITE
STRATEGY
Capitalize the side with the highest
exposure (the side facing the
overhead bridge)
LOW VISUAL EXPOSURE
The view on all 4 sides of the site are
blocked by the surrounding buildings.
VISUAL PERMEABILITY
c
VISUAL PERMEABILITY
c

62. VISUAL OBSTRUCTION
Possible Strategies:
1. Remove Public Toilet & replace it in
the collaborative space.
ISSUE
VIEW OF THE SITE IS
OBSTRUCTED FROM CARS
PASSING THROUGH THE SITE
Possible Strategies:
1. Integrate and adapt building design
to trees to advertise to the vegetation
2. Relocate the vegetations at site

63. TRANSPARENT BARRIER
EXISTING GROUND FLOOR CONDITION
N
SITE

64. POTENTIAL SOLUTION TO
INCORPORATE ON SITE
Privatization of compound. Attract pedestrians into the interior spaces.
Heighten personal experiences.
According to DBKL Guidelines: Ground floor of building should be highly
transparent (50-75% windows) to make the inside visible to passers-by.
PRIVACY PUBLICITY

65. OPEN GROUND
EXISTING GROUND FLOOR CONDITION
N
SITE

66. Incorporating streetscape facilitiesBarrier and safety issues
POTENTIAL
STREETSCAPE
PARKINGS
STREETSCAPE
FACILITIES

67. Necessary, optional and social activities exist.
FIVE-FOOT
WALKWAY
Necessary activities exist.
More passive contacts.
SPILLOVER
POTENTIAL SOLUTION TO
INCORPORATE ON SITE

68. FERRY BUILDINGSAN FRANCISCO

69. Located at The Embarcadero in San Francisco, California
A ferry service terminal,
around the Bay and the portal to San Francisco at the foot of Market Street.
Surrounded by plazas and a park which provide variety of landscape activity for San Franciscan.
SITE CONTEXT

70. HOW DOES THE PUBLIC REALM IN
THE FERRY BUILDING
act as an anchor point?

71. GROUND FLOOR PLAN
Multiple entrance inviting the public realm into the building.
The Great Nave Public RealmPeople Circulation

72. PUBLIC ZONE
GROUND FLOOR
Open ground floor
allow the community
to explore the
market and
restaurant spaces.
SOCIAL ZONE - FIRST FLOOR
Public interaction between clients
and professionals
PRIVATE ZONE- SECOND FLOOR
Private zone for working area is
located far from the bustling city
FIRST FLOOR
GROUND FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
Public Zone
Social Zone
Private Zone

73. FARMERS MARKET FOODWISE KID PROGRAMME
ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMME
of events and happenings in the Ferry Building

74. SITE ISSUE: LACK OF INTERACTION
Lack of emphasis on social interaction in the urban
development, whereas emphasised on politics and economy.

75. SOLUTION
Human-Scale
Public Realm as Anchor Point
Flexible Layout
Variation of Activities

76. PLACECan a SPACE become a PLACE
?

77. HUMAN SCALED BUILDING
and more transparent ground floor activities
5 Foot walkway
1.5m
width
70m
High
Footpath
Allow people to
congregate and
increase intimacy
between groups of
people.
3m
High
“Put people
first,
then
building”

78. TRANSITIONAL POINT
ANCHOR POINT
PUBLIC REALM+
ANCHOR POINT
=

79. PUBLIC REALM
to invite street pedestrians, to engage.

80. theCOMMONSBANGKOK, THAILAND

81. J Avenue Mall
theCOMMONS
Residential
Tower
Bar
Penny’s Balcony
Bar
Restaurant
Restaurant
Restaurant
theCOMMONS is a small retail development located in the city centre. It is an attempt to create a new active outdoor space
where people can comfortably utilise it at anytime of the year.
SITE CONTEXT theCOMMONS

82. HUMAN SCALED SPACES Easily accessible and inviting, opened entrance to attract public. Staircase as resting and hang out
place.

83. VERTICAL OPEN AIR PUBLIC SPACE Bridge the variety of shop lots and activities within the building.
Play Yard
Top Yard
Village
Market

84. TRANSPARENCY Allows physical and visual interaction, allows optional and social activities to take place.

85. Cooking Workshop Outdoor Gathering
Pop Up Bazaar at Public StaircaseLive Music Event
TEMPORARY EVENTS
in public realm

86. INTERNAL FLEXIBILITY
Free - moving working spaces as
platforms for different careers
Allows personalisation
EXTERNAL FLEXIBILITY
Free outdoor spaces for variety of
outdoor activities
Allows robustness
INCORPORATE FLEXIBLE LAYOUT WITHIN SPACES
to create free-moving spaces

87. OPEN FLOOR PLAN
for internal flexibility; to provide a variety of spatial use
Schematic Floor Plan

88. APWBANGSAR, MALAYSIA

89. FLEXIBLE LAYOUT AND SPACES that encourages new forms of innovation for creative exchange & to spur economy
BOOKMARK
THE BINDERY
ART PRINTING WORKS
UPPERCASE
PULP
PAPER PLATES
PROJECT POKET POKOK
THE CANOPY

90. FLEXIBLE LAYOUT
Collaborative spaces
OLD
MEETS
NEW

91. FLEXIBLE LAYOUT
Platform for creative changes
WORK
+
PLAY = ?

92. FLEXIBLE LAYOUT
Creates new nodes to the community

93. FLEXIBLE LAYOUT
Different programs and functions
FOOD &
BEVERAGE
TO
ATTRACT
PEOPLE

94. PRECEDENT STUDIES
In relevance to
local, regional, western context

95. theCOMMONS | Bangkok, ThailandAPW | Bangsar, Malaysia
CONTEXT
FERRY Building | San Francisco, USA
Located at the ferry service
terminal around the Bay and the
portal to San Francisco at the
foot of Market Street.
Provide a central location
which operate as community
gathering-place for the
celebration of local culture and
cuisine
Located in a modern-day cosmopolitan
city, where urban dwellers are yearning
for new possibilities of outdoor living
space that can effectively answer to
the tropical heat and its dense
living condition.
Located in an industrial area
surrounded by residential zones.
It was first establish in as Art
Printing Works, a commercial
printing factory.
In 2013, an idea was conceived to
repurpose underutilised spaces
within the printing factory which is
currently a hotspot to the
community.
LOCAL REGIONAL WESTERN

96. PROGRAMME
Market Zone
Community-Based Shopping
Mall
A human scale landmark acts as
“the backyard of Thonglor”.
Collaborative Workspace
Wine Fiesta & Music Night
Workshop
A Creative Campus to Inspire And
Encourage New Forms Of Innovation
To Spur Economy.
Flexible Layout Open Air Public Space
Pocket Parks
Promote the Bay Area’s Vast
ethnic diversity and serve an
incubator for artisan producer.
Adaptive Reuse Community
Place
Historical Landmark
Marketplace for Farmers
Events Venue
Education Classroom
Inviting Ground Floor Activity
into building
Cooking Workshop
Staircase as Public Seating & Hang Out
Area
Yoga Class
Music Night
Street Market
theCOMMONS | Bangkok, ThailandAPW | Bangsar, Malaysia FERRY Building | San Francisco, USA
FoodWise Kids Programme

97. The Commons | Bangkok, ThailandAPW | Bangsar, Malaysia
LIVE, WORK,
EXCHANGE
LIVE, WORK,
CONGREGATE
LIVE, WORK,
DIVERSIFY
FERRY Building | San Francisco, USA
LIVE + WORK + ?
space becomes place

98. IN THE MIDST OF EVERYTHING
● Cultural identity
● Community
● Transportation
● Growing economy
MIDST OF EVERYTHING
Will the collaborative
space compete with the
surroundings?
OR
Will it enrich the
identity of Chow Kit?OR

99. COMING SOON….
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROJECT
-
A COLLABORATIVE SPACE

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