The New Malaysia Embassy

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Project overview 2

Drawing showing parts of security measure of the New Malaysian Embassy with secured route for VIPs entering the compound and evacuation route during emergency event such as terrorism attack (top row). Spacial design with events and occupancy communicating the embassy diplomacy introduced as a new programmatic layout to the New Malaysian Embassy design (rows below).

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Week 10_23 Nov 2016

Drawings above shows one of the key spaces in the new Malaysia Embassy, the Batik / Silk Room. The drawings are attempt for the spatial function development which the architecture follows the process of the Batik Making. This space acts as a theatre setting for the manufacture process and promotes public visual engagement from the proposed Nine Elms Bridge and the adjacent hawker centre. The introduction of this space is to promote the forgotten Malaysian handcraft and its exquisite making process which originally based in East Coast Malaysia on this international platform.

Space design with simple and direct timber frame structure allows future expansion and shifting between spaces.

Tutorial reviews:                                                                                                 By Simon Withers

- Research on temple structure                                                                           - Revise on the roof structure, larger for longer span                                          - Too grid

Question: What represent or symbolize Malaysia culture?                                    

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Glut of new-build properties leads to falling premiums in central London

Property investment firm LCP warns of bubble in new-build market, with the risk of oversupply suppressing yields and prices

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Bird view of Nine Elms District

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Scale 1:5000 Nine Elms District in context

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BIG - Malaysia Square competition winning project 

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The truth about property developers: how they are exploiting planning authorities and ruining our cities

Affordable housing quotas get waived and the interests of residents trampled as toothless authorities bow to the dazzling wealth of investors from Russia, China and the Middle East

‘’Across the country – and especially in superheated London, where stratospheric land values beget accordingly bloated developments – authorities are allowing planning policies to be continually flouted, affordable housing quotas to be waived, height limits breached, the interests of residents endlessly trampled. Places are becoming ever meaner and more divided, as public assets are relentlessly sold off, entire council estates flattened to make room for silos of luxury safe-deposit boxes in the sky. We are replacing homes with investment units, to be sold overseas and never inhabited, substituting community for vacancy. The more we build, the more our cities are emptied, producing dead swathes of zombie town where the lights might never even be switched on.’’ 

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Here marks the beginning of my MArch Riba Part 2 Year 5 a.k.a. final year in pursuing my tertiary education in UoGreenwich. 

Fourth year, 2015/16 was a year of adapting and wondering or I would conclude it as a miserable year of mine. Aside of formal studio unit issues, unawareness and ignorant had set me up even though I managed to survive my year. Look at the bright side, I challenged my tolerance limit in working thing out and puzzle up my interests in this discipline as well as positioning myself in architecture field.   

*Note on the very first page of 2016/17: Be honest to myself and working cooperatively with unit21 as a stepping stone to success.