KLANG COMMUNITY CENTRE

The royal town of Klang in Selangor is an enigma to the uninitiated Known to be a vibrant city because despite the lack in positive quality realm, people still come together to socialise. This informality is what Klang is truly made of, it leaves personal touches of one person after another, adapting to the everchanging needs.

They need a home for all, to slow down and detach the community from social isolation between the elderly and the youth, while creating an approach of a positive intimate and informal quality realm. Focus is placed on community cohesion through third spaces, without disrupting existing linear nodes, and Klang community needs a point of convergence where sharing of knowledge, precious local craftmanship skills are gathered to conserve Klang’s heritage.

This community centre orbits itself around the intention to amalgamate the older and newer generation to intensify community cohesion and economic development for locals and business owners through local craftmanship activities, enhancing Jalan Besar, Klang as a whole while acting as a pause from the busy streets. This reduces social isolation, recapture the essence of informality and intimacy in Klang, the Community Centre to rejuvenate the vibrancy.