Public Spaces for Bukit Bintang

Our final assignment of the semester! Now that we've done our analysis on our site, we shall then apply them into real life!

So our lecturers set the scenario for us: Imagine Bukit Bintang is empty, now your job as an architect is to redesign and enhance this urban district by implementing public spaces. We're required to present our proposal with the use of presentation boards and a model of our new site (yes, finally! Tiny buildings and trees on the way!)

I'm thinking, Bukit Bintang does look a bit too compact, hence why not let this place "breathe"?
We're going to make it more susainable and green! (wow it rhymes, somehow)

There are five things we agreed to focus on improving our site:

• better connectivity, transportation and safety
• more green and eco-friendly
• better public spaces
• more cultural
• retaining and enhancing Bukit Bintang as the (when I mean "the", I mean "THE") shopping and entertainment district

It was an exciting yet difficult journey as we now had to literally stay overnight on campus to fulfil our tasks. This is how we look like :

Just staring at the same old modelling boards and the masterplan for days!

Hence, after days of changing and improving our design on our site, this was our product!

 Our proposal to improve connectivity and our public spaces in Bukit Bintang.

 Our masterplan of our proposed site.

 Our proposal to make Bukit Bintang more cultural and green, and also to strengthen its image as a shopping and entertainment district.

Our site model, 1:1250.

As every assignment I had had its lessons, these were what I'd learned:

1. when they said design according to scale, they really mean it. In the beginning, we realised our roads on the model were too wide - 5m per lane yoo that's wow, and our buildings were too big. We had to redo nevertheless we're fortunate to have our lecturers who willingly stayed with us till the wee hours of the morning just to tutor us despite the fasting season. You go lecturers!
2. Masterplanning is important! It's challenging as we needed to consider the consequences of our descisions - where to place our parks, why can't we put it there or why should we place our buildings this way.
3. For a site proposal, we need to have aims and we need references to support our ideas. You can't just put a London Bridge into Bukit Bintang just because, you need to have relevant reasons and evidence.

Overall, it was a success! Couldn't have done it without them actually because I had this issue where I could just shut down anytime. We had a lot of fun doing our model despite the time constraint. I think I need to train myself to not fall asleep at the wrong times.