Lecture 9 | Design Inspiration

What inspired your current design final project? Please include your sketches and diagram to further inforce your statement.

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Our current design final project is to create insightful and innovative designs to convert existing community hall ‘Dewan Orang Ramai’ of Sungai Buloh Settlement into a story museum, a place to commemorate the history of Sungai Buloh Settlement.

For me, I think what has inspired me is the experience of the laprosy' life. At first, I derived their story based on 5 critical moment which is “Before the Siren”, “Segregation”, “Sorrowful Life”, “The New Hope” and “The Day After Tomorrow”. After that, I found that the leprosy people are craves from past till now.

HOPE. This character is be missing in their life but pursuing and longing it during their sorrowful life and even now. It just like the name of the village they live, The Valley Of Hope.

Hope

This idea had been created because the history of the settlement and the story of the leprosy patients had been forgotten by the outsiders. My idea in this project is to create a community space between the locals and outsiders. Using the story museum as a community way for leprosy to voice up and telling their life and dream to outsiders. They, as disadvantaged communities, tries to voice up in order to protect their hope, their home as well as hope that not to be forgotten.

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Above sketches and diagrams are explored from the life of the leprosy patients as well as the settlement. Those different abstract diagrams are explored from the relationship of the site, which is interaction between the nursery, human and the nature.

Thus, I have explored it into 3, which is possibility, reflection and harmony.

Possibility

HOPE, is uncertainty because it is going to be happen in the FUTURE.

Reflection

Besides, using contrast in the design to strengthen senses is one of the way to explore the feeling of HOPE.

Ignore to Notice

The human senses is usually not strong or even will ignore the surrounding senses. For instance, normally people will having breakfast, lunch and dinner just because it is on the time. For this, people will not focusing on the sense of taste among the five senses. This, is called ignore.

However, people will feel delicious and tasty when they are eating during hungry. This, called notice. It is strengthen senses.

Harmony

Harmony is between the human habitation and the nature. It is reflecting the symbiotic ordering systems of nature. Using this to interpreted as peaceful and hope of people.

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The reform spaces in the story museum are inspired by the FIVE SENSES, which using contrast to strengthen the senses in order to create the holy feeling and also the experience and feeling of those patients.

Every details of the leprosy patients that they would like to tell and confided to the outsiders and visitors is in all the different spaces. Using spaces to communicate and speak out. To make sure visitors have experiencing the different spaces, I am trying to apply the pass through spaces and terminate spaces in the design to makes my idea to be achieve and goes smooth.

The new spaces that created in the story museum are divided into two part: upper and below. But both are integrated into one. Using leveling and ramps to create a possibility space. Visitors will not know the circulation of the space until they steps in. This space also used to tell outsiders the difficult and uncertain of the patients for them to achieve their hope. And also for people to re-think the relationship of the patients and outsiders during the segregation and the sorrowful life as well as the vision of the patients. For this, light and shadow will be the important elements in this design.

In addition, I have remain and reuse the mezzanine space as a communication space for visitors to exchange ideas, views and feeling with each other after experience the story museum.

Thereby achieving my idea, to create a community space between the locals and outsiders and strengthening senses to express the life of the lepers.