Other than that, both the National Library, ‘Perpustakaan Negara’, and The National Science Centre, ‘Pusat Sains Negara’, have the same purposes in which to allow the public gain knowledges from their visits. The National Library building design was influenced by the concept of a traditional Malay men head gear called ‘tengkolok songket’ which can be seen exteriorly.
Most of the public building as mentioned above used a ‘traditional’ approach in it’s design concept. This indicated that part of the traditional influences is still being use locally in the progress of forming the urban characteristic of Kuala Lumpur.
Other than all the mentioned buildings in previous pages, the other major components in contributing urbanism in Malaysia is the old local shophouses which also had been the source of economic growth and helps in the local urban development around 1970s.
In 20th century, three storey shophouses were built in Kuala Lumpur and had been quite popular in comparison to other single and double storey shophouses in other places due to the high demand of land values and urban progression to accommodate increasing capacity, also to provides enough neccessities and needs of the town people back at that time. Although the storey height of the shophouses is increasing, the plot arrangement and layout remains the same along the existing street following the traditional method of linkages. Practically,this kind of development using the traditional linear style blocks along
The buildings designed by early builders and constructed by the craftsmen of the time—though they often incorporated foreign styles—took on local features and became a stylistic synthesis of particular concepts of space, structure, form, and function. Vernacular building is integrated within the nature. If we look upon the vernacular structure it leads towards sustainability and in modern decade sustainable architecture is too much required. Vernacular architecture presents basic and simple solutions for the sustainable issues because it has significant environmentally features that respond to sustainability such as low energy techniques to provide for human comfort, approaches that are integral to the form, orientation, and materials that are obtained from local resources. Thus, vernacular buildings and correspondingly settlements can be accepted as a knowledge source for sustainable building design ideas. Therefore, lessons learned from vernacular architecture can help in designing of environmentally friendly built environments. Studies from vernacular architecture may give birth to new ideas and designs for modern era which will be environmental friendly as well as economical. All buildings must be designed with specific cultures in
Politics has always been closely related to the transformations of architecture styles. The transition of one region’s political dynamics will certainly influence the exterior forms and the structural connotations of the symbolic buildings. Different kind of political changes will also result different kind of architectural stylistic shift. The independence of Turkey as a new nation and the colonization of India by the British empire reflected the influence of political changes in architecture and how new architecture style is introduced during such periods.
The book Concepts of Urban Design by David Gosling and Barry Maitland has stated that, “History provides a large number of traditional urban forms which have survived the passage of time and which work to a greater or lesser degree. (Gosling & Maitland, 1984).” This statement provides some evidence to show that even professionals in the planning world recognise and base some urban designs on ‘traditional urban forms’. Examples of this range from
The aim was to preserve the architectural integrity of the ex-isting building (Stott, 2014). The proposed design hides underground beneath the existing footprint of the museum, which acts as a landmark for the ar-chitecturally conservative city. Ashley Hahn says, “the expansion is by excavation, and removing ob-structions inserted into the museum’s original de-sign, which allow for major improvements to light, circulation, and exhibition space.” These are the main design requirements of which the project is based. In other areas, Gehry added simple sand-stone-clad stair enclosures to accommodate mod-ern safety regulations (Hahn, 2014). He began by studying the DNA of the building. He then looked at the significant assets that the original architects provided to create a strong entry sequence and cir-culation pattern. The aim of this is to connect the new to the old giving the impression that the mu-seum was of one harmonious design (Stott,
As the evident structural element, it also emerges the functional contrasting with historic building which constructed in the duplicated patterns. The lower south corner of exterior surface is designed with the vertical prominent mullions. As the internal contrast of façade materials, it demonstrates distinct external reflection of surroundings. Meanwhile, the structure wraps around the corner to the south landscaped ground-level plaza, which is actually separating the intentions from the cooperate commercial offices to retail spaces. On the other hand, it blurs the views from the southeastern as the residential areas. Compared to the historic ambience at 4th Avenue facade, Maki provided a different curtain wall system to generate a flexible conversation with contemporary residential neighborhoods. The internal comparison of façade design represents the practical scheme that is implanted to the diverse site
A global city becomes the place where the typical project and the so-called objects of international style in architecture are realized when building the main complexes - from flats to trade centres and administrative buildings. The sources of international style in the modern architecture are rooted in the epoch of modernism at the beginning of the 20th century, when the rejection of the old artistic and plastic language was perceived as something new and modern.
Urban Design means many things to different people, consequently the term is often misunderstood, and greatly misused. Urban design may loose some of it’s ambivalence if considered as a process to accomodate a changing environment. This process which emphasizes design possibilities rather than design finalities develops from consideration of long range needs and goals and the city’s character. The ends (the built enviroment) develop from the means, the cities decision making process. The city regulates and approves development, suggests development scenerioes, and various guidelines. By going through this process the character of the city is identified.
There are two typical mixed use land house in traditional community but are banned because current planning policy is favor of sprawl. The first kind is a two-floor house where shop is on the first floor and apartment on the second floor. This type of building allows homeowner to have
Lots of things change in modern times, and as cities became larger, so purchasing abilities became high, commercial streets, and quarters began to be built, market centre shops
This essay is going to compare two building iconic for their prospective societies, we will cover briefly their use, design and construction elements and the influence that they have had.
The modern architectural style allows the architect to showcase to the world the natural form of the building. This style requires the architects to design buildings with exposed features. Homes modelled based on this style tend to be very aesthetic and comfortable to the residents. The
Singapore has been facing constant challenges for housing space due to limited land area and high population density. The decreasing land resource will inevitably contribute to smaller living conditions for future public houses. As such, IKEA should look into incorporating more space saving concepts in their product designs. Adapting to the market trends not only satisfies the market demand, IKEA can continue to maintain their competiveness in its industry. Most importantly, being a successful pioneer will differentiate IKEA from its competitors, allowing them to achieve higher profits and maintain if not achieve better brand
Vernacular architecture is an architectural style based on local needs, living environment, availability of building materials and local traditions. This style remains significant within the 21st century as many of the architectural concepts care still applicable to modern design techniques. The traditional Kampung houses of the Southeast Asian region is a primary example of this, developing its own distinctive approach to accomodate the tropical environment of which aspects regarding thermal control, construction and community can still be learnt from today.
This essay focuses on the development of hybrid colonial architecture in early 20th century in Southeast Asia. The essay investigates the different styles of buildings in different locations and explains how these types of architecture combined both European and local origins. It explains the Dutch style in Indonesia and the British style in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia while giving an example building to these styles.
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