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    In Limbo: The "Unfinished": Architecture Defined by The People

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    This document proposes designing architecture that can adapt to accommodate different functions over time in response to impermanence. It suggests that buildings should be able to change rather than forcing people to adapt to rigid spaces. The research will test a new scheme where a single space can be used for different programs like a shop, school, home or office. It will examine how thresholds and spatial qualities like proportion, organization and circulation need to change between functions. The site selected for testing this adaptive architecture is located on Jalan Raja Laut in Kuala Lumpur, an area that has seen changes over time from offices to informal businesses.

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    This document proposes designing architecture that can adapt to accommodate different functions over time in response to impermanence. It suggests that buildings should be able to change rather than forcing people to adapt to rigid spaces. The research will test a new scheme where a single space can be used for different programs like a shop, school, home or office. It will examine how thresholds and spatial qualities like proportion, organization and circulation need to change between functions. The site selected for testing this adaptive architecture is located on Jalan Raja Laut in Kuala Lumpur, an area that has seen changes over time from offices to informal businesses.

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    This document proposes designing architecture that can adapt to accommodate different functions over time in response to impermanence. It suggests that buildings should be able to change rather than forcing people to adapt to rigid spaces. The research will test a new scheme where a single space can be used for different programs like a shop, school, home or office. It will examine how thresholds and spatial qualities like proportion, organization and circulation need to change between functions. The site selected for testing this adaptive architecture is located on Jalan Raja Laut in Kuala Lumpur, an area that has seen changes over time from offices to informal businesses.

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    In Limbo: The "Unfinished": Architecture Defined by The People

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    This document proposes designing architecture that can adapt to accommodate different functions over time in response to impermanence. It suggests that buildings should be able to change rather than forcing people to adapt to rigid spaces. The research will test a new scheme where a single space can be used for different programs like a shop, school, home or office. It will examine how thresholds and spatial qualities like proportion, organization and circulation need to change between functions. The site selected for testing this adaptive architecture is located on Jalan Raja Laut in Kuala Lumpur, an area that has seen changes over time from offices to informal businesses.

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    In Limbo :

    The “Unfinished”
    Architecture Defined by the People

    Background, Frame, Platform Cluster


    Kooi Yong Kai
    0323152
    “How can buildings adapt to accommodate different functions
    over time, responding to elements of impermanence?

    If it can, how will it work?”


    Problem Statement

    Rise in Architecture of Rigid Functionalism.

    Constant and Inadaptable internal spaces meant to serve a specific function.

    For architecture to be sustainable. It should be able to adapt to change.

    Climate

    Utilitarian Function Change User


    • How people use space differently • Social & Cultural Backgrounds.
    • A change in program completely. • Age Groups
    (When development fails or is no • Quantity
    longer in need).
    Instead of people forced to adapt
    themselves to fit spaces.

    Can architecture adapt to fit the user and


    their changing needs?
    Aim

    Testing a new architectural scheme where a building is designed to


    accommodate different functions through time.

    A Shoplot A School/ Institution


    A Space

    Architecture with
    Mosaic of
    Functions?

    A Home An Office
    Research Questions

    1. What are the possibilities of programs a space can accommodate. How


    can thresholds be articulated to suit the different programs.

    2. What spatial qualities differentiate different programs utilized by different


    people from one another in a space. (Proportion/scale, Organization,
    Form/space, Circulation, Principles, Permeability).

    This space can be


    But how will it work?
    anything!
    Site Selection
    Jalan Raja Laut, Kuala Lumpur
    Site Selection
    Changes Through Time
    1962 2004 Current

    Menara Tun Razak. Built in


    1983. Fully demolished in
    2014.
    Jalan Raja Laut
    Office districts, with high rise
    office blocks.

    Jalan Tunku Abdul


    Rahman
    Formal forms of business in
    shophouses. Fabric
    wholesalers, F&B.

    Lorong Tunku Abdul


    Rahman
    Informal forms of business
    on a back-lane. Pasar
    Malam.

    Jalan Masjid India


    Mix of commercial shop
    houses and residential flats
    (Malayan Mansion and
    Selangor Mansion).

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