Design Pre-thesis 1 | Social Culture

The increasing of squatter and population of low-income homeowner raised the issue of urban poverty in Kampung Medan until present. Currently, they run small business at their house to generate more income to improve their standard of living. Some of them renovate their house with addition of rooms to make available for rental to outsider. Hence, residents made modification of their living space to suit their needs therefore every households have their own characteristics which creates disorganized built environment. Therefore, the introduction of flexible housing typology will provide them the space that corresponding to their needs with integration of entrepreneurship. The housing is the key in creating diversity and that it enables personal characters in a vast housing community.