Project 2B: The Wellness Centre

Wellness Centre Plus

Furthering the thematic exploration of “engaging environment and community”, Project 2B called for the design of a Wellness Center PLUS within the Kepong Botanical Gardens, bordering the suburban neighbourhood of Taman Ehsan. Students were required to provide full design proposals incorporating findings from precedent studies and site analysis.

Students were to generate narratives that respond to the environment and community as user group within the given context and explore environmental poetics of building enclosure’s design solutions that reduce environmental impact utilizing various complex typologies of spatial organisations and a variety of passive strategies for sustainable design. The design should contribute to and merge harmoniously with environment and site and provide the best of spatial experiences in fostering a sense of community.