Design Pre-thesis 1 | Social Culture

"A city needs vitality and happiness for survival".

Urban stress is an important factor affecting diseases found in modern societies. Most working age individuals spend half of their life at work and so work exerts a major impact on their lives, including how much time and at what level they can enjoy daily leisure activities. While considering the conditions and problems of urbanization, the issue of leisure time and leisure spaces has become one of the main axes of urban planning.

Walltopia, an indoor climbing gym center, is proposed in promoting the components of vitality at Jalan Ampang. Defined as a lifestyle sport, climbing gym is influential in promoting vitality as a space where people act alone or in groups. People spend their time to undergo a special experience which mostly take place in specially created locations (climbing gym) which “influence people’s perception of time, space and matter”. Through this experience and being a time in a different environment, people can have an escape from daily life to a certain degree.