CYBERcafe

INTRODUCTION

On Subject, assignment and case study…

‘Understand the meaning and concept of architectural is the research and decision-making process that defines the problem to be solve by design.’ The delivered this subject seriously is to gain the capability of student in doing design, base on economy, politic and social.

Beside that, these subjects also describe the nature of design and its attendant methods, technologies, processes and procedures in terms of design practice. Public is very clueless when define the architectural, some of them just says that architectural its only buildings, some of them also saying that architectural is the magical way which has the ability to raising the value of the building from ordinary to ‘super special’ or as the soul of the building. And some of the peoples also saying that architectural it’s only the style of the building. Easily, just deeply understand this definition, if you like: -‘ architectural it’s a method of observation and experience, which is needed by public to achieve the maximum freedom.

On doing this assignment, student will be understood on the relationship between concept, spaces, image, fundamental and ideology of the building design.

Beside the relationship above, the aspect such as ventilation, circulation safety, physiology environment and society should be taking seriously. Basically main target is trying to find the right answer for all the questions. Starting from analyze the site, getting know on right authorities, climate condition, surrounding vegetations and feasibility studies of the site. The stage on doing this assignment has to follow the procedures from thinking, imagining, listing the activities, brainstorming, categorizing and from bubble diagram to systematic diagram.

The good thinks on doing this assignment is, we as a student will learn how to create a model and perspective in conjunction to make it our design more real and practical.

Located at Kampong Batu Muda, Sentul Kuala Lumpur, surrounded by residential area, client were force us to develop a Cyber café with a proper concept and image. The RM1.9 million Cyber Café is a mind-blowing hybrid of lobby, open space, indoor, bar lounge, office, toilet and landscaping area. As soon we imagine the Cyber café, we can get surprisingly by the connection between the two concepts, which is contemporary and traditional. The owner Definition Plus Sdn. Bhd has targeting that 1-year and a half, can occupy the building and can running the business proposal.

SUCCESFUL ASPECT OF DESIGN PROPOSAL

            the ideology…

‘e-Pondok’ is the name of the proposed building. The opportunities in designing this building is wide open, there are so many things that I had learned in developing the idea.

How to achieve the maximum of ‘e-Pondok’ actually? What is the best about ‘e-Pondok’? Main question is, in generally, is this building can give good benefit to politic, economy, social, society environments, and of course to owner personally.

We all aware about the functions and user of the building, we all also aware that some of the building design will brought certain problem to the users, some building was design with no connection with the function, some building was design with less depends on the climates, no relationships with surrounding and sometimes doesn’t give good impact to the public viewer.

Basically, we all know that the users has the right to enjoy the relaxing activity, working, studying, shopping, doing proper business, praying inside particular building which was being created in sense of accusations and full of awareness about the functions. Also we all knew that the importance of the building is to improve the quality of life.

Two basic ways to enjoy the building, understanding the design of the building and spaces related, and understanding in terms of awareness of architectural and peoples.

            the fundamental…

Generally there are three types of image, image of plastic, image of frame and image of flat. But better building will successful in image designing if the three types of image that being mentions before blended nicely.

‘e-Pondok’ was design with more image of plastic, I personally still using the image of flat and image of frame, my intension in mixing traditional external with contemporary internal is to create something different.

The ‘Tudor’ image of the roof is the symbol of dome.  Bring back our memory on how peoples before us, peoples back 40 or 60 years ago, where did they start the education? Of course they doing it in, what we call ‘sekolah pondok’ right? Besides that, the height of the Tudor or dome is to make peoples think the hidden meaning, from inside if you look up, just think how small our knowledge compare to almighty Allah, and as physically the Tudor image gives good ventilation, air circulation and the balancing of brightness.

The reason of me using the flat roof instead others, is the way for me to express my deep knowledge of telling peoples that we all same in terms of capability of leaning, or even the seize of brain, we need to come to the place that make us feel we all same, no body is less or more clever. So we feel comfortable to start finding the education. And in construction flat roof type is easy to construct, can stand any loads and even its benefit to the owner if decided to develop one more floor above.

However, my intension of image is to will create the wondering of surrounding, as the attraction for environmental society, Peoples will look at the building twice and wondering ‘what the hake is that’? And naturally they will forced to knowing or discover more.

The less uses of partition inside of the building is to avoid blocking view, and hidden meaning is ‘blocking thinking’, the concept is easy, to open wide the view and mind, peoples also be able to see through from the quantity and the seize of the windows.

The big hole in the middle of the building is for landscaping that will make peoples close to the natural environment. Even though the seize is quite small but the impact is big, other than that this hole also gives good air circulation and brightness.

Arrangement of the rooms for this building was designed accordingly to users needed in terms simple movement either with or without stuff, circulation and connection between rooms to rooms and rooms to peoples.

The sharp edges of the design or square are benefit to the humans plays with the spaces and to be able to see other sides from different angles. The design also coincidently gives unlimited space for creating the green area around the building.

Taking about the interior, huge area purposely design to give comport to occupier, the idea of not putting any computer table is to give more space and to create the first and only cyber café in Malaysia using notebook instead of PC. Bar lounge build to provides simple food and beverage to the customer.

the advantage & disadvantage…

The design is uniquely different with other design, however we still can relate to the needy of politic, economy and social. The design itself already gives picture that the building is the place for the surrounding to find and surf for the knowledge.

Peoples also have choices to surf the Internet inside in the lobby or indoor area or at the veranda, which is located outdoor.

The building ‘e-Pondok ‘ also designed for the disable peoples, one level floor gives conveniences to the wheelchairs peoples to come and use product provided.

On doing this design proposal, I found out that’s not many disadvantage on this building, but the major problem is to ignore the first impression of peoples to think that this building is mosque or ’surau’. Parking also limited to the customer, maybe I was force to design the building by utilized all the area.

However it is, I’m sure that the design will be talk able and will be good attraction to the surrounding. Good feed back to the owner in terms of profit.