R C H I
YAN WAI CHUN
C E D R I C
YAN
E - P O R T F O L I O
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS) IN ARCHITECTURE
PROJECT 1 A
THEORIZING the colonial city
The course work focuses on the cities in Malaysia such as George Town ( Penang ) and Malacca as the case studies. The students are to explore the various ideas/theories/social situations prevailed in the historical and contemporary times.
OBJECTIVES :
1. To explore various urban theories and ideas in the Eastern World.
2. To know how various social situations responded to spatial forms.
3. To acquire an holistic understanding about various historical phases of the case study cities.
Theory is a vision and theorizing is a representation of clear point of view. In a group of 7-8, the students are required to choose a case study city (George Town and Malacca) and to explore the city in both historical and contemporary phases. The grouping has to be so strategic that entire class covers the historical and contemporary phases of both cities. Each group is to prepare digital presentations on salient and insightful ideas/theories/social situations that contributed the spatial form of the city of their study.
PROJECT 1 B
Journal on sketches and photographs
This task relates to the one above, in the way that the students are expected to document the city spaces. This is a location based study to establish the relationships and roles of the three urban design elements, especially focusing on the urban structuring principles. Urban patterns and sense of place should be given key focus.
PROJECT 2
MAPPING the townscape
The students are required to document the spatial form of the city to note the key spatial experience that is driven by the urban form and content. The objectives are: a) to characterize the urban forms through Serial Vision; b) to establish the relationships and roles of the three urban design elements and c) to identify DISTINCTIVE aspects or patterns in their layout offering to the characteristics of a ‘colonial city’. The students will be given with basic urban study techniques such as figure/ground, serial vision, collage city, space syntax, etc. Therefore the students are required to analyze and apply those techniques in order to evaluate the spatial (tangible) and/or social (intangible) patterns in the city.
OBJECTIVES :
1. To experience the urban space and take part in urban life.
2. To allow the students to explore the potentiality of space, form and their relationship to aspects of use and cultural meaning.
The solution is in content understanding employing critical approach to the notion of ‘content’ as a purposeful narrative to powerful questions relevant to the context (Low, 2010). To begin with, the question is:
What are the tangible and intangible colonial characteristics still prevalent in the context of the city of Kuala Lumpur at street scale?
