SENTUL COMMUNITY DIGITAL LIBRARY

SENTUL HAS UNDERGONE SIGNIFICANT TRANSFORMATIONS DUE TO RAPID URBANISATION, RESULTING IN SEVERAL NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON ITS URBAN FABRIC AND COMMUNITY COHESION, MANIFESTING A PHENOMENON KNOWN AS ‘PLACELESSNESS’, WHEN A PLACE OR LOCATION LOSES ITS DISTINCTIVENESS OR UNIQUENESS, EVENTUALLY THERE IS NO SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY AND THE PLACE.

THE SIGNIFICANT IDENTITY OF SENTUL AS A FAMOUS RAILWAY TOWN IN THE PAST HAS BEEN DOMINATED BY HOMOGENEOUS HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS AND CORPORATE OFFICES. FURTHERMORE, ONE OF THE SIGNIFICANT URBAN ELEMENTS IN SENTUL, THE BATU RIVER WHICH WAS ASSOCIATED WITH TIN ORE MINING ACTIVITIES IN THE PAST AND CONNECTED TO THE GOMBAK RIVER HAS UNDERGONE OBSTRUCTION TO OBTAIN CONTEMPORARY ATTENTION, DIMINISHING THE CONNECTION AND VISIBILITY OF THE BATU RIVER TO THE COMMUNITY NEIGHBOURHOOD.

THEREFORE, THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DESIGN A COMMUNITY DIGITAL LIBRARY ALONG JALAN IPOH, KUALA LUMPUR AS A SENTUL RAILWAY HERITAGE PRESERVATION PLATFORM AND CATALYST FOR THE SMART COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WHILE INTEGRATING THE BATU RIVER TRANSFORMATION URBAN STRATEGY. 

IN THE CONTEXT OF COMMUNITY DIGITAL LIBRARY, DESIGNING A USER-FRIENDLY DIGITAL LIBRARY PLATFORM THAT PROVIDES HERITAGE EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING FOR THE LOCAL COMMUNITY TO FOSTER A SENSE OF HERITAGE APPRECIATION WHILE DEVELOPING DIGITAL LITERACY SKILLS FOR SMART COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.