Design Pre-thesis 1 | Social Culture

The idea of this project is to provide a new flexible housing typology that is able to adapt with the business/entrepreneurship basic requirement. Considering business/entrepreneurship as among the core activities of Kampung Baru, the housing scheme will provide a platform for the entrepreneurs that is integrated with living space especially for the young generation and kickstarter. Mainly focused is on Kampung Baru-base entrepreneurial typology i.e. foodies, services, and handycraft products. The design will be based on the need of space to accomodate these requirements. The housing scheme will allow customization to the units within certain restriction which only capable to serve the SMEs space requirements. The restriction purposely targeted to control the cost for the implementation. It is because personalization has always been associated with extra cost and can potentially increase the housing price (Barlow et al., 2003; Gann, 1996). Since this scheme will be categorised under medium cost housing, certain control and restriction need to be applied.