This document defines and compares the rural, suburban, and urban contexts through case studies of three different areas in Malaysia. The rural area of Janda Baik has mostly single-story houses built from local materials like timber and bamboo with large land sizes. The suburban area of Laman Rimbunan has mixed commercial and residential mid-rise buildings made of bricks, concrete, and steel. The urban area of Times Square has the largest and tallest buildings over 10 stories made of concrete, glass, and steel to accommodate the dense population.

1. CASE STUDY
OF
THE
RURAL, SUBURBAN
AND URBAN
CONTEXT

2. Lau Wei Ling
Lim Chin Yi
Farah Akmal
Khoo Xin Yee
Kimberly Wong
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3. DEFINITIONS

4. Definition of Rural
•
•
Geographic
area that
located outside
the towns and
cities.
Rustic or
countryside
area

5. Definition of Suburban
•
Geographic area that
located outlying part
of the towns and
cities.
• Residential or mixed
use area

6. DEFINITION
OF
URBAN
•
Geographic area
that constituting
towns and cities.
• Mixed use area

7. INTRODUCTION
TO JANDA
BAIK
(RURAL SITE)
A Malay village with low population density.
Agriculture, tourism and business industries.

8. INTRODUCTION TO
LAMAN RIMBUNAN.
-
Located in Kepong.
A mixed residential
and commercial
development area.
(SUBURBAN SITE)

9. INTRODUCTION
TO TIMES SQUARE
AREA
•
(URBAN
SITE)
•
Located in the
city of Kuala
Lumpur.
Highly
developed
area.

10. Buildings
- Structures with walls
and roof.
- Adapt different
functions.
- Built accordingly to
human needs.
By Lau Wei Ling

11. RURAL AREA
JANDA
BAIK

12. BUILDINGS
F E AT U R E S
-
Mostly single-storey
bungalows.
Large land size and
moderate built up area.
Air holes and windows
for house ventilations.

13. Mostly contain Traditional
ARCHITECTURE Malay Architecture and some
based on Siamese
Architecture.
•
Traditional Malay
Architecture buildings
- High pitched roofs.
- Crafted ornaments on the roof
edges.
- Stilted house.
- Timber as main building
materials.
- Knitted patterns as design.

14. • Siamese Architecture building
•
•
•
•
Building: Ashida
Villa.
Tall building to
envelope bigger
interior for
temperature
regulation
Has double pitched
gable roof for the
ceiling to regulate
temperature.
Square and
rectangular tiles
patterns are used
as building design.

15. •Rural Style / Country
style
Bamboo
Building
Masonry Building

16. BUILDING MATERIAL
- Timber, bamboo, rocks and
concrete used in their buildings.
- Timber, bamboo and rocks are
used for their easy availability in
Janda Baik.
- Concrete base are used to
increase the lifespan of the
timber building.

17. BUILDING
FUNCTIONS
•
•
•
•
To shelter the villagers.
To provide security and safety defences.
As accommodation.
To carry out activities, eg: business

18. SUBURBAN
AREA
LAMAN
RIMBUNAN

19. BUILDINGS AT SUBURBAN ZONE

20. BUILDINGS AT SUBURBAN ZONE
Commercial buildings
- 3 storey shop-houses
Industry building
- Health centre

21. BUILDINGS AT SUBURBAN ZONE
Residential buildings
- 3 storey terrace houses
- Apartment

22. BUILDING
FEATURES
- Smaller land size and bigger
built up area. The built up area
usually occupies more than half
of the land size.
- The buildings are usually 2
storey or taller.

23. BUILDING MATERIALS
Bricks, concretes, steels and cements

24. ARCHITECTUR
E
•
-
-
Modernism
Less is more.
Aesthetic value depends
on the function of the
building
Simplicity concept

25. URBAN
AREA
TIMES
SQUARE
AREA

26. BUILDING
FEATURE
• Large land size and large
built up area. The built up
area can take up almost
90% of the land size.
• Buildings are more than
10 storeys and above.

27. BUILDING
FEATURE
• Buildings are built taller to
sustain high capacity of
population.
• Green building codes are
encourage in urban core
area.

28. BUILDING
FEATURE
• Extremely high priced
land costs boost the
construction of skyscraper
for partition of the costs of
the housing units

29. ARCHITECTURE
• Old colonial influences,
Asian traditions, Malay
Islamic inspirations,
modern and post modern
mix architecture are
shown in the urban area.

30. ARCHITECTURE
• Exterior and interior of
the buildings are
enhance with
architecture to attracts
attention and worship of
the tourists or people.

31. ARCHITECTURE

32. BUILDING FUNCTION
• The buildings in Times
Square area have
multiple functions.
• The building types consist
of commercial, industry
and residential.

33. BUILDING FUNCTION
• For example, SJK(C)
Jalan Imbi is a industry
building.
• Facilities are provided in
the buildings to satisfy
human needs.

34. BUILDING FUNCTION
• The times square twin
buildings has 1000 suites,
over 1000 of retails
stores, leisure theme
park, cinemas and food
outlets to provide
entertainments.

35. BUILDING FUNCTION
• Living, working, eating,
resting, leisure, tourism
and commercial activities,
industrial and
management are all focus
in different units within
Times Square area.

36. BUILDING
MATERIALS
• Skyscrapers at Berjaya
Times Square area
require strong steel
frameworks to support the
buildings.
• The concretes, glass and
steel are still the main
materials.

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