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DESIGN STATEMENT

Resilience by Design: Abridging Us with Distance

Covid 19 has impacted many aspect of our life, that includes architecture, community interaction, and daily habits. For that, social distancing and safety protocol has been implemented in order for mankind to stay safe. However, in such instance it reduce the meaningful interaction between people, which further divided mankind in terms of social life. So what are the ways and means to improve such situation? How do we create a solution architecturally?

1) Inclusive Playground & Public Space

Social Media has played an important role in our social life nowadays, so for this space.It is painted in a striking range of colors, forming a rainbow-like ladder and spaces. For that, the youths will definitely visit this place, take some selfie and upload on Instagram, Twitter or Snapchat. They might also tag this places which further promote the space of design.

2) Urban Art Spaces

Just like Penang Wall art street, at public holiday its normal to see people lining up just to take a photo for memories. For that, we decided to design free standing facades with exhibition circulation, which will allow the urban artist to paint wall mural on it to express their creativity. Wall art is appealing to youths nowadays as it is relevant, approachable, and people can have close proximity to interact with the artworks.

3) Bamboo Structured Market / Workshop

This is a revamped version of the existing futsal field, and its repurpose as Market and Workshop space. While retaining the existing steel structure, we designed it with bamboo theme architecture, which allow the space to be permeable, which further enhance the user experience of the people who is in this community space. Bamboo is easily assembled, and its sturdy, which represent the resilience of mankind to go against Covid 19, and we selected Bamboo as it is a building material that will protect mankind through thick and thin.

4) Community Recreational Space

Beside from the integration of bamboo structure, the futsal field is further developed with colourful theme, in order to speak the same design language as the inclusive Playground and public space. For that, this will create a unique identity for the design and people will definitely remember it as a iconic sport places for people to interact with each other.

5) Urban Farm

Urban farm is designed as a self sufficient space for the community spaces. Designed with wooden Pallete as the theme is sustainable design, its also designed with the concept of Aquaponic systems. The farm products will be collected, and then sells on the Marketplace. This concepts will encourage interaction between people as farming is a teamwork, and therefore improve community connection in the site context.