The document summarizes a site visit and design for a community swimming center in Port Dickson, Malaysia. The site currently serves as an overnight camping area for families. It has three distinct areas - mangroves providing privacy and shade, an open beach with views of the sea, and a man-made beach for children. The proposed community center design embraces the natural landscape and uses spatial hierarchy and climatic responses to organize functions and encourage social interaction while maintaining a sense of privacy and visual permeability.

1. when visiting the site, i experience 3 continious but defferent perpectual ex-
perience form the site, the three different part of the site gave me different
feeling from raw texture, materials and site context.
Based on these different perceptual experience, i studied different character-
istic of the site, activities on the original site to translate into architectural
space for a community swimming center.
The purpose of this community swimming center is to bring families together
during the weekend, relaxing and embrace the natural landscape .
SENSE
PORT DICKSON SWIMMING COMMUNITY CENTRE
Nicholas Wong Yew Khung
Our site for this project is located at the end of the 4th
mile beach, one of the cleanest beach in Port Dickson.
Out site is a man made site which designated for fami-
lies to camp overnight to enjoy their weekend. The site
has a peaceful and non congested atmosphere that
allows perceptions of harmony, making it a suitable
place for families and friends to have a wonderful
bonding time.
INTRODUCTION TO SITE DESIGN NARRATIVE
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2. Firsdt floor Plan
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Lap pool
viewing platform

3. Gallery
Receptionist
Cafe
Open Space
Office
Garden
Sauna
Infinite pool
Kid’s pool
Man made beach Relaxation pool
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EQUIPMENT ROOM
BALANCING TANK FOR ENGINEER DETAIL

4. Ground floor Plan
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5. “mangrove”: located at the south site of the
micosite, this part of the site is full of
vegetation, the trees block the view from the
south to provide perfect privacy and shades
for people to picnic and rest under the trees.
“The beach ”: located at the north site of the micro-
site,locals like to camp and picnic here because it
has a great view towards the beach of tanjung batu
4,and they can enjoy sunset along with the
boundless sea.
“Man made beach” : located at the tip of the mi-
crosite, facing west and has a small man made
beach with short bricks wall. The beach is de-
signed for kids to have a safe place to enjoy and
have fun.
TYPOLOGY
The spinal typology leads people
to their destination with direct
views and there will be open
spaces for people to rest at the in-
teraction point of different spaces.
EMBRACE THE NATURE
The outer layer of the building is
open up to the site for users to fully
experience the nature. Meanwhile
the inner part act as a gahtering
space to encourage interaction be-
tween users by blocking the views.
SPATIAL HIERARCHY
Arrange the space function based
on the soft/hardscape of the site,
using mangroves to create a more
private, intimate space for users,
meanwhile the openness of the
beach create a relatively public
space.
CLIMATIC RESPONSE
Prevailing wind blow from west to
east consistantly through out the
year, the structure ulitizing this as
passive ventilation system by ele-
vating the building to create
spaces for the wind to blow thru.
The elevated platform and vegeta-
tion shade users from sunlight.
VISUAL PERMEABILITY
Creating openings on the brick
wall will create a sense of privacy
but maintain the visual permeabili-
ty and decrease visual weight for
the users at the meantime.
Patched brick wall
Private
Public
Outer layer
Inner layer
South Elevation
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6. East Elevation
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7. North Elevation
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8. Sectional perspective A-A’
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Detailed Drawing
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