The Unending Square: Disjunctions and Cospacing for CoworkingM’Arch #4 Architectural Design Thesis (Part 2 of 2) This is a continuation of the thesis project for M’Arch Semester 4 at Taylor’s University. Part 1 of the Thesis here!  The Unending Square -Disjunctions and Cospacing for Coworking The world is experiencing a shifting work-life paradigm with the rise of coworking spaces and the number of creative class who choose to work in them. The coworker community operates as decentralized workforce rather than following a hierarchical organization, with a certain degree of disjunction presented and desired between the events, space and movement

NO-SENTRAL: Re-Strategizing Tschumi’s Architectural Disjunction in Coworking Spaces The world is experiencing a shifting work-life paradigm with the rise of coworking spaces and the number of creative class who choose to work in them. The disjunction between program, time and spaces in the definition and readings of office and undefined coworking spaces showed a new architectural possibility of mobile working spaces as working could be done anywhere and anytime. NO-SENTRAL, a coworking project proposed across Nu Sentral amidst the dilapidated shophouses of Brickfields is an extension of the working network across Jalan Tun Sambanthan away from the 24 office

Scaffolding Klang: Temporalizing Permanence Design Statement “In What Way Temporality Embraces Klang Open cultural Plaza?” The urban proposal creates a unique cultural plaza between the 3 historical religious buildings (Masjid India Klang, Sri Nagara Thandayuthapani Temple, and St.Barnabas Church) that seeks to improve the urban linkages of Klang Town and enhances the identity of the site as an event space for youth and sports. The green corridors and water plaza integrates with the pedestrian pathway and improves the walkability of the site. It provides safe and pleasurable experiences while exploring and traversing within Klang Town. The number 1 issue

Aspects of Origination Design Statement “In what way can wordplay and mariner associations configure semantic architecture? “ Place names are anchors of language on the land.  Over the year the Chinese community has named the Kampung Cina as 唐人坡 (Chinese Slope/Hill) instead of using 唐人街 (Chinatown)or 唐人村(Kampung Cina). The Chinese name of the place 登嘉樓 (deng1jia1lou2) are derived from the Melayu sound pronunciation of the place name Tereng-ga-nu, whereby the Chinese word 登嘉樓 suggested the meaning of ascending into an auspicious building. Various Architectural elements related to slope and ascension are studied and incorporated into the project to fill

click here to visit this page in chinese VPAC Design Statement The project serves as a spotlight featuring KL Tower (Kuala Lumpur Tower; the strong identity of Malaysia and landmark presence) as part of the performance or performance poster and seeks to amplify the identity and love towards Malaysian by leaving its impression ingrained in the mind of the visitor, local/ global performer, audience. The project presented a synergy of play and interaction in between the performance lighting and KL Tower Lighting, while also serving as a territorial beacon that indicates the presence/absence of performance within VPAC with lights visible