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Assignment 1

Reading the Contexts of Traditional Street  

Place identity is constructed on meanings that were shaped through socio-cultural, economics and political factors throughout a particular period of time. Such meanings are often embodied in the physical and non-physical aspects. In the context of traditional streets in a rapidly globalized city like Kuala Lumpur, changes in physical settings through urban developments may pose significant impacts on their established meanings.
This project introduces ways of reading the important “lexicons” of traditional streets through the tangible qualities of architecture and space, and the intangible socio-cultural attributes. It enables students to understand the specific contexts that construct the distinctive place identity and socio-cultural meanings of the traditional streets.

Assignment 2

 Research in Asian Architecture

Traditional Indian architecture

Culminate in the production of the study; collection, indexing and evaluation of information; analysis of information; compilation and organization of study; writing of study; assembly of illustration and text; design of layout; binding and presentation.

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  1. Design thinking/ influence of cosmology, history, society and culture on the architectural production and development

  2. Building typology

  3. Spatial layout conception

  4. Structures, materials and constructions

 Research in Asian Architecture

Assignment 2

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Video Presentation

Research Question -

What is the correlation between gentrification and the diminishment of place identity in Petaling Street?

What challenges will be encountered for the restoration of community in Petaling Street?

What restoration strategies can be incorporated appropriately to conserve the place identity of Petaling Street?

How will the modern built environment affect the context of Petaling Street?

What factors would bring the community back to Petaling Street?

This assignment requires us to research and discuss significant issues to generate a critical understanding of tradition, modernity and globalization in the Asian architectural contexts.

Our group title is "Restoration Of Community As A Strategy For Loss Of Place Identity Due To Gentrification In Petaling Street", we have identified the issues faced which are Economical Inflation, High-Rise Buildings, Influx Of Foreigners, Repetitive Businesses and Urbanization. 

Reflection

In this module, I felt like I have grown closer and touch more on architecture elements. It opens up a new perspective to my understanding towards history of South, Southeast and East Asian architecture as a whole within architecture design and construction, building science and technology, garden design and city planning through Sustainability, Tradition and Modernity & Globalization. Therefore, I have gained precious knowledge and understanding about the importance and how to preserve, maintain, restore heritage. Unfortunately, I have face some challenges, was lost when I first started because I totally have no knowledge about these, despite that I have fun learning it and eventually get a hang of it. With the guidance of Mr. Nicholas Koh , I'm able to complete my work smoothly. Nevertheless, I have awesome teammate, they never hesitate to help me out although they are not in-charge of that particular section, we enjoy working together a lot.

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