KUALA LUMPUR SOFT MOBILITY HUB
“Renewing urban regeneration through soft mobility”
“Renewing urban regeneration through soft mobility”
MBE211086-Design Thesis | 2023/2024-01 |
KL Soft Mobility Hub is a soft mobility hub in the core of Kuala Lumpur which aims to function as a mobility service infrastructure in providing a solution to the users of the Stretch of Jalan Tun Perak in their first and last mile journey. The precise role of KL Soft Mobility Hub is to change the tide of the urban sprawl of Kuala Lumpur by alleviating the vehicular load along the Stretch of Jalan Tun Perak by providing an alternative mode of transportation. By linking the potential nodes along the Stretch of Jalan Tun Perak, the soft mobility development hopes to promote the new way of commuting by weaving the element of wayfinding into the urban fabric of the bustling city.
DESIGNER PROFILE
THEODORA YIO SING YING
PRELUDE
PROBLEM STATEMENT
Kuala Lumpur boasts a fascinating blend of old-world charm and contemporary sophistication as the economic, cultural and transportation hub of Malaysia. Like many rapidly growing cities, Kuala Lumpur faces challenges related to traffic congestion, inadequate public transportation, and urban sprawling. The city's road network experiences heavy traffic during peak hours, leading to congestion, pollution, and long commuting times for residents and commuters. Although soft mobility has been introduced to the urban scene in Kuala Lumpur, the usage are seen at small scale and segregated resulting in low integration levels among the streets in the city, thus it is needed to be promoted.
AIM
To design a Soft Mobility Hub to increase the accessibility of human movement along the Stretch of Jalan Tun Perak that promote Kuala Lumpur Downtown past mode of transportation to initiate a sense of culture appreciation among the local and non-locals in the vicinity.
KUALA LUMPUR URBAN GARAGE MINI MASTERPLAN
KUALA LUMPUR URBAN GARAGE AERIAL PERSPECTIVE
The storyboard tells the tale of the spatial experience of the targeted users in the Stretch of Jalan Tun Perak which are the tourists and also the white collars around the vicinity. The proposed building aims to further introduce the users to explore deeper into the essence of the site through soft mobility as catalyst in bringing the disconnection between the users and the genius loci of the site.
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