Social Commentaries - Johor Bahru City Lobby Centre

Social Commentaries of Johor Bahru City Centre where all starting from the old Segget River

by Yong Zhi Kang zhikangyong@gmail.com

Preface Concept and Context . conceptual diagrams . site interpretation sections . site plans and photographs

Design presentation materials and drawings . architectural drawings . construction details . visualization renders . process and strategies diagrams

SITE BUSKING

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HOOKAH DISTRICT PRIME

ALLEYWAY

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Pedestrians tend to walk in fast pace to avoid irritating bird dropping.

Finance Institutional building (banks) surrounded the street open spaces.

The beginning strip of the street is exposed and without seatings.

Active busking create visual connection with hectic traffic users.

JLN SEGGET

JLN SEGGET

JLN WONG AH FOOK

Hookah District 2.0 offer interesting vantage point onto site.

Dislocated space that communicate with context above eye level .

JLN TRUS

“The Tiger Roars” mural art became cultural fabric of the coarse grain building.

JLN SEGGET

roof canopy Secondary seatings

rainscreen

rainscreen

Perforated metal screen

Johor BahruSocial Infrastructure City Lobby (JBCL Building) The city lobby incorporated nature, light, rain and wind to improve building performance efficiency through passive design strategies, like the passive cooling features, daylighting optimizations and aesthetic rain protection.

A place to accommodate and encourage people interaction, with a balance healthy environment can be playful and functional at once, here introducing a new nodes for gathering with a wonderful sense of belonging, as a part of the social commentaries.

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1.

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DROP-OFF PORCH INTROSPECTIVE COURTYARD OPEN PLAZA FOOD COURT BAZAAR GROUND SOCIAL LOBBY

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SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

SECTIONAL AXONOMETRIC

FRONT ELEVATION FACING JALAN TRUS

LEFT ELEVATION FACING JALAN TAN HIOK NEE

RIGHT ELEVATION FACING JALAN DHOBY

SECTIONAL DRAWING

CONSTRUCTION DETAILS

Physical

MODELLING