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SPACE SYNTAX ON SPATIAL VISIBILITY OF SUNGAI BUNUS AS SOCIAL NODE AT KAMPUNG BAHRU, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA

BUNUS PAVILLION

 

Master of Architecture – Final Architectural Thesis

Rashidah Jimi Sham
Supervisor – Dr Sharifah Salwa Syed Mahdzar

The global trend in the modern development often does not do justice and damaging to the natural beauty of old river located in the central district of cities. The case was noticed happening to ‘Sungai Bunus’ (Bunus River), which was once served as the main transportation route for the early settlements in Kampong Bharu – a liveable traditional village which is located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur city centre, Malaysia. Destructively affected by the vast urbanization, currently, Sungai Bunus bears a notorious reputation for being polluted, which is stuck in the middle of the village. The condition has been deteriorating over time as it serves as the drainage and other inland waterway system within Kg Bahru neighbourhood. Though spanning 9.2 kilometer long, unfortunately, it is seemed buried and left unnoticed to most residents in the area. Due to the heavy pollution and massive floods in 2007 and 2011, the river is now covered and used as a cycling track for the city residents. The improper treatment, the wrong usage of the covered path spanning over the river and the disjointed paths along it, have all actually blocked the view sight of the people moving through and fro the area regularly on daily basis. This study investigates the spatial morphological properties of Sungai Bunus. It aims to reveal its spatial and social importances in order to reuse the covered path over the river as a third place where residents could experience space more meaningfully, through the proposed architectural intervention of Bunus Pavillion. The contextual spatial potential of the river to direct a much active movement into the area is optimized. Series of space syntax analyses were done to measure the connectivity and integration values of Kampung Bahru area in relation to its local and global network of context. In addition, gate and people following observations were carried out in weekdays and weekends. Questionnaires were also distributed in order to examine the social awareness of the people towards the presence of Sungai Bunus. The Axial Analysis reveals that Kampong Bharu has high integration value, stressing the significant presence of Sungai Bunus in the middle as connector for the site. The injection of pocket spaces functioning as the third place seemed also plausible. The visual permeability is then measured by using visual graph analysis where high correlation values were found when running the visual integration and visual connectivity of the site. The central area of the pavilion is then defined by the visual graph analysis and became the most visible space of the pavilion. The central path, functioning as the key space feature, holds the attention of the passerby to acknowledge the presence of the river there. The study concludes that the spatial potential of Sungai Bunus, need to be integrated into the design of the cycling tracks and pedestrian path that spans over it. Space syntax analysis has revealed the potential of the space to be generate a high density of movement for making it as a more livable and safe recreational area for the Kampung Bahru community.

Preliminary Space Syntax Axial Map of Ampang Road within Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) Vicinity

5 km radius axial map analysis from KLCC area. The west side of Ampang Road shows a high integrated value, whilst a lower value is computed on the east side of it.

SPACE SYNTAX AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL STUDIO WITH EVIDENCE BASED DESIGN DECISION METHODS AT UTM :

 

SPACE SYNTAX AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL STUDIO WITH EVIDENCE BASED DESIGN DECISION METHODS IN UTM

NEW Spirit URBANISM workbase by Dr Sharifah Salwa Syed Mahdzar : A Compilation of four samples of Final thesis for Master of Architecture (LAM Part 2)

This section displays the range of space syntax applications that have been used in producing an evident based design approach for the architectural studio at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). Space Syntax research tools of analysis has been globally applied in the fields of architecture, interior design, urban design, planning, transportation, archaeology, psychology and many more. However, much exploration is still much needed in finding the ways of applying space syntax methods as a teaching tool for the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, especially to students who has little knowledge of it. This poses a practical challenge in enabling the students to be able to value the empirical aspects of space for their design scheme. IT also raises question on the effective use of this tool in helping architectural students making their design decisions for the academic studio projects. The selected works below have shown the range of use of space syntax methods and the limitation of the tools that can be used in helping students making decisions for their proposed schemes. Four samples of architectural design outputs of Master of Architecture Final Thesis projects of the students were analysed. The selected student’s works are categorized according to the specific syntactical method used for their design process of analysis. The general use of axial line analysis has been shown quite effectively used as it is easy to be understood and applied into the proposed schemes. The method has been used by the students especially for their site analysis. This allows them to make a firm decision of the design strategies for the chosen site. The study also shows the use of Visual Graph Analysis which has become the favourite tools for the students to help them further in making a more objective decision so as to make the proposals to be more reliably valid.  The VGA has then been explored further and students were able to demonstrate a more convincing and expressive form of design for their class project. The application as clearly visible when the VGA tools have been used extensively for the interior exterior context of the spaces studied. It is concluded that space syntax research tools is much needed and much exploration is still needed in making it as effective design teaching tools to architectural students worldwide.

 

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