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Puteri Harbour Site Visit
The site of workbase 1 for semester 2 2021/2022 is locate just beside UEM Sunrise building, while the site itself is actually a parking lot, which is surrounded by many high-rise buildings. From the site, we can observe that there is one abandoned construction nearby, but it might be abandoned due to the fact that…
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Puteri Harbour
As a Site Study for our first project, we had a field trip to Puteri Harbour. I had a chance to go there beforehand, with few of my Workbase members. My initial reaction to the place was, awe. The place is certainly well developed and looks very alienated, in a good way, with the rest…
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SITE VISIT | PUTERI HARBOUR
PUTERI Harbour in Iskandar Puteri might be the future of Johor, but it would need competent management to get there, Puteri Harbour is a town that lacks vital management. It is well-planned and well-designed, and I think it will be the future for Johor. For me, Puteri Harbour has the infrastructure but they also need…
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IMPRESSION OF SITE VISIT AT PUTERI HARBOUR
IMPRESSION OF SITE VISIT AT PUTERI HARBOUR (POSSIBLE THINGS TO DO ON SITE) In my opinion, Puteri Harbour will be the new landmark of Johor which connects countries such as Singapore and Malaysia. It might also be the possible nodes were people gathering occurs. The site context of Puteri Harbour is developing the future development…
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Mersing’s point of view before the site visit
My impression towards the Mersing district is majority about fisherman who migrated from Kelantan and Terengganu as well as develop Mersing into fisherman community. We can see that they survived as a fisherman from the islands and sell the catches at the land of Mersing. Throughout the research about Mersing’s characteristics, i found that the…
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Design 6, Semester 2 2021/2022
The new semester has begun. This is the 2nd generation of the Speculative Studio, where the focus remains the same but with a different approach and context for the study. Last semester, students engaged with Kluang in Johor as part of their design studio, creating macro and micro studies and master plans as a collective…
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A Breathing, Green World
Northrop Frye established “green world” as a literary idea in his work Anatomy of Criticism (1957). “The archetypal function of literature is visualising the world of desire, not as an escape from “reality,” but as the genuine form of the world that human life aspires to imitate,” Frye explains in Anatomy of Criticism.
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DESIGN 5 | D’ SQUARE
Alhamdulillah, design 5 came to a close with a project called ‘D’ SQUARE. Throughout the semester, I have been overjoyed and grateful to be a part of this work-based. All through the semester, we thought about a lot of things, especially when it came to creating the brief, where we had to collaborate in groups…
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The Lokal !! It’s Done..
The aim of this project is to reduce the number of underprivileged and unemployed youth throughout Kluang city specifically, in a long run through educational opportunities in cookery courses provided by local organizations. The opportunity would hopefully help the youth community to achieve a better, positive and independent life after the completion of the course.…
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