Semester 06/ Year 3. Final Project's Presentation.The main aim
of this project this semester was to imagine and create a post-apocalyptic
scenario of present day Kuantan. As Kuantan lies very low above the sea level,
the scenario created was a huge flood drowning the city, people and its
history.The site sits
directly in the center of 5 major roads connecting Kuantan. This inspired me as
it had huge potential to relate not only the surrounding folks, but also for
a much wider radius of people. When a
disaster occurs, the first thing people do is find their loved ones. Next will
be food, as it is the prime factor for survival. As I analyzed further, I took
into consideration the ‘predicted’ behaviour of people when an unexpected
disaster occurs. Many examples shown that people will tend to get wild;
stealing, vandalism, immoral behaviours and this may even lead to killing one
another.
I have
decided to take action to minimize the severeness of such behaviour, because
full prevention would be merely impossible. Haven taken into account all the
above factors, I have decided to propose an area where food, namely agriculture
will be grown. And since this is a proposal of a further future, why not build
below instead of above? Factors such as pollution, rubbish, floating debris
have been among the many reasons why I choose to go underground instead.
I derived my design from the existing site
itself. It had to be taken into account as the structure will stand there even
before the great flood arrives. Other influencing factors were the shopping
lots on the south end of my site. I gridded my design accordingly as I didn’t
want the final outcome to be unrelated to the existing surrounding. The main
gridding of the site has become the prime influence of the triangular farming
modules.