2nd Year - Chinese Cultural + Herritage Centre

Porject Brief:
This project is located at one of Penang's oldest herritage district. The site carries with it a very significant history of migrants from China. How they establish their district and how they maintained it.

However, as time passes, the site has lost it's historical sigficants, leaving the older generations to occupy the area with nothing but memories. Young generations has left in pursuit for urban life in Georgetown, BayanLepas, and also to majaor cities like Kuala Lumpur.

Hence, the departure of his project is base on a form of symbolic dedication to the Chinese history in Penang where it houses historical objects, artworks, photographs, and documents to revive and structure the memories of the past.

Spatial configuration is base on views to the open sea and linearity to suggest a continous walk in life just like how the old saying by Confucious, "The journey of a thousand miles, begins with a single step".

1st Year - Gallery for Raja Shahriman

Project Brief:
Client Raja Shahriman is looking for a gallery to showcase his metal sculpture artworks, which also includes an area for his private studio for the making of his designs.

Raja Shahriman carries a very different faith as a Muslim. As stonge as he is, he has never given up his dream to sculp huma figure, which the Muslim faith rejects. He justifies his artwork as having the presence of movements inspired by the Malaysian martial arts, 'Silat', rather than the figure itself.

What makes a 'still' movement, a 'slow', and what's makes it 'fast'? What can be the best material to assist in its expression? Within the time frame the metal mealts for the sculpture to be crafted, what can be done?

This project takes on Raja Shahrima's integrity in his design to suggest and to express movements in 'still form'. It explores geometry of primitive forms known to be 'static', exploded and reassembled to indicate a sense of dynamism in the geometry.

Circulation is base on a continuous centric space; where the linearity of the spatial flow is totally dependent on the atmosphere of the artium that provides all the mixed sounds, lighting, and ventilation. Very similar to the gallery Wright did for Guggenheim.