The Healing Machine Johor Bahru City Lobby
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Perspectives
View across Jalan Wong Ah Fook
Perspectives
View across Jalan Trus
1840s
1920s
1970s
the rise of
Johor Bahru City Center 1.4927° N, 103.7414° E
Johor Bahru is a town located at the Southern end of Peninsular Malaysia with just a kilometer away from Singapore, has a rich culture and history that brought up the now densely developing city. The city is the capital state of Johor, formerly known as Tanjung Puteri or Iskandar Puteri, which has a long established history tracing back to mid 19th century.
Fishing Village to Trading Ports
Railway Introduced
Business Variants
Today, the city provided users with well developed infrastructures and business opportunities which enhanced status of the town. The city has been keeping up the growing trend with the influence of the neighbouring country - Singapore. Part of the community travels across Johor Bahru and Singapore daily by public transport for work and leisure. Hence concluding a strong relationship established among the two city.
International Metropolis
2010s
JLN. TRUS
Project Site 1.462° N, 103.763° E JLN. WONG AH FOOK
The site is a highly developed area mainly consist of commercial, offices and institutions mixture, large coarse grains public infrastructures brought in high percentage of non-local within the city context.
a. Aerial View of site from City Square Mall ( Jalan Wong Ah Fook)
b. Aerial View of site from Persada Building ( Jalan Trus)
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Total site area: 3044 sqm Setback: 6m, 8m ( Jalan Wong Ah Fook) Height Difference: 4.8m
1:2000 Macro Site Plan
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First Impression of site….
Users #1
TRANSIENT GROUP
Sickness #1
OVERSIGHT
" Today, the city center is once again buzzing with activity. However, the population remain transient - they commute in and out for work and the city quiets down significantly after office hours..." -Maimunah Jaffa, IRDA, Head of Planning & Compliance
Architectural representation...
Section looking to preliminary building concept, ‘Vending Machine’ at right directed to the covered walkway.
Ideation
Supermarket Aisle Shopping shelves in supermarket are neatly arranged to ease consumer’s understanding of item displayed with clear indication of prices and types. It was translated into a facade with its content displayed to enhance legibility of spatial content, easily understandable by users passing by.
Section of ‘Vending Machine’ idea with alternating functional space and circulation space.
Ideation
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Vending Machine Vending Machine represents the concept of attract to select. It is self-serviced, opens 24/7 and always available when needed, besides, item bought could be shared with wider community. It further explores the efficiency of spatial legibility within a short time period.
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Strategy #1
Content Display Facade Implementing ‘adapt to attract’ method, the building will have program displayed on facade. Transient people with function focused perception missed social contacts with the local community, a quick glance of the facade allow them to understand and creates possible social contacts.
Urban study informed...
Tangible Edges - Main Roads
IIBD Development Region
Contact Points
-IIBD or Ibrahim International Business District aims to achieve a 'Vibrant, Cultural and Sustainable' business district
Users #2
FUTURE DWELLERS An increase of 10,000 live-in population to be expected from the IIBD city development project. The city dwellers need a different kind of lifestyle where the city offers high proximity to the activity they most identified with such as work and leisure.
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Sickness #2
WEAK CONNECTIVITY The main roads are tangible edges segregating the site into long stretch of building lots. Besides that, the IIBD development project highly impacts the future land use. The contact points are targeted to better link the users in the city.
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Strategy #2
A LIVEABLE CITY All in all, the Healing Machine should provide a hub that enhances connectivity and creates livable city that has positive urban health.
To redirect attention while connecting users...
Design Process a.
Spatial arrangement in a linear form stretch along the edges of building to allow fastest browsing and choosing of activity. b. Main building that displays all activities on the facade facing adjacent covered walkway, users enters into desired activities to explore more selections.
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e. The Healing Machine is pushed to the center to allow better visual permeability from all sides.
f. The tilt creates a funneling effect focusing users journey between the two streets yet provide needs when needed.
g. A Jogging Track looped the building creates suspense (circular) yet enhancing action of browse and choosing (notion of Vending Machine)
h. The Vending Machine is split to two for visual connectivity among users in the building
c. Array, Rotate and Enclose allow funneling of solid and voids provided by project site's level difference between two main roads (4.8m). d. Facade extended and tilted as a circular strip to allow continuity of browsing and choosing, directing flow into the core.
The group of social connectors...
Users #3
YOUNG STARTUPS + Sickness #3
BUSINESS SUPPORT Rising of young start-ups suffer from rental and suitable locations for small businesses in city center, satellite offices will be increased which enhance business successes JB has a dynamix mixture of users: a. Young and Upcoming Entrepreneurs b. Multi-generational Businesses c. Long Established Society
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COLLABORATIVE HEAL A hub where creative thriving community, innovators, visionaries, like-minded Johorians meet will strengthen the bonds among the user. Each of the user group has their expertise, the idea is to bring all expert in their own field, come together and create a better community. A) B) C)
Transient (Expertise) Young Local (Expertise) Existing Local (Expertise)
Spaces for the creative cycle...
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Breathing Garden
Creative Hubs
Walking Deck
Viewing Deck
Laser Engraver
Food Hubs
CNC Milling
Steel Grid Structure 3D Printer
Work -space
#1 Brainstorm
Creative / Food Hubs Creative hubs are the Headquarters HQ and offices of the creative minds, they will have meetings and brainstorm session. The hubs are built on steel grid structure for modifications. Meanwhile, a stretch of Food Street are available for new F&B startups.
#2 Create + Prototype
Makerspace
The makerspace realize creative mind’s thoughts into real product or services for the public. There are CNC miller, 3D printers, Laser engraver, workspace and presentation stage for use. Users from the roof (Breathing Garden) look down from viewing deck to observe the creative peoples working.
#3 Communicate
Operable Booth The operable booths are made of steel structure with timber panels that can be detached for placing goods while operating. There are 8 booths at the marketstreet for creative minds to share their creations, interacting with local people to get feedback for further improvements.
Spaces for the creative cycle in machine...
#1 HQ + Offices
Built on gridded steel structure, flexible and expandable, designed based on users preferences
#2 Makerspace
Prototype workshop for small scale production, 3D printing, CNC plotter and laser cutter
#3 Market Street
Connects with local people, operable booth for rental, a place where thoughts and ideas meets
#4 Multipurpose Theatre
Formal presentation, large capacity, acoustic treated
Persada Convention Centre
Adjacent Shoplots Covered Walkway Jalan Trus
Environmental considerations...
#5 Living Quarters
Short sleep pods, gym, yoga, rock climbing, trackmill, gym bike
#6 Environment Design
Vertical core blocks east & west sun, water bodies cool building during the day and greeneries filter polluted air
#7 Wind Flow
Wind rose diagram suggesting wind movement funneling through the triangular negative grains (open spaces)
City Square Mall Linkage
Persada Linkage
Elevation of Healing Machine...
Floor Plan
GF - Ground Floor
Parking Entrance East Core
West Core Central Core Market Street
Floor Plan
1F - First Floor
Stormwater Harvesting City Square Mall Linkage
Food Street
Loading Bay
Makerspace
2F Floor Plan
2F - Second Floor
Creative Hubs 3D Printers
Library
3F - Third Floor
3F
Laser Engraver
Jogging Track Library
Persada Bridge
Viewing Deck Breathing Garden
4/5F Floor Plan
4F - Fourth Floor
5F - Fifth Floor
Living Quarters
Theatre
Perspectives
Entrance Statement
Diagram
Exploded Model
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View to Parking, Creative HQ hubs and Jogging Track
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View from City Square linkage entrance
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Public Library
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View to Central Core and Creative HQ hubs
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View from Jalan Trus entrance
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Makerspace
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Multipurpose Theatre
Mixed Composition
The Healing Machine
Collage
...Cities are very complex organisms where everything needs to be in balance… ...Creative ideas pops in creative hubs, prototype at makerspace, publish at market street, yet secondary programs intersect with harmony…
Collage
...‘Vending Machine’ concept explores efficiency of spatial legibility within a short time period… ...Programs arranged neatly on facade for users to select on demand… ...Pedestrian linkage bridge looped by ‘jogging track’ further strengthening the idea of ‘adapt to attract’...
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