"In a society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives is disappearing.
It is more and more important to make the cities inviting, so we can meet our fellow citizens face to face and eperience directly through our senses. Public life in good quality public spaces is an important part of a democratic life and full life."
--- Jan Gehl, Architect on Urban Life
Community design is both tangible and intangible design for a certain community by understanding their needs and site context. This design workshop involves intangible design (programs that can cultivate the participators) to visualise the process of a community develops and tangible design (architectural approach) to solve various social issues faced by the community in Seksyen 17.
The design workshop will be focused on the relationship of spaces by studying the demography and living pattern of the community.
THE URBAN PARK PROJECT
A COMMUNITY DESIGN WORKSHOP COLLABORATING LPPL + UCSI.
Location / Park at Seksyen 17, Petaling Jaya
OVERVIEW
OBJECTIVES
- To explore and rethink the possibilities of public green spaces in an urban setting.
- To relook and reorganize the existing residential blocks unit that becoming unfit in the area to cater the present shifting of context in the area.
- To redefine the way that the existing community in using the public spaces.