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PROJECT 2: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & ENGAGEMENT CENTRE

The site is located in Mah Meri Cultural Village at the Kampung Orang Asli Sungai Bumbun, Pulau Carey, Selangor.   

“The Mah Meri is an ethnic group native to western part of Peninsular Malaysia. They are one of the 18 Orang Asli groups named by the Malaysian government. They are of the Senoi subgroup. Most of the members of the Mah Meri tribe live along the coast of South Selangor from Sungei Pelek up to Pulau Carey, although there is at least one Mah Meri Community on the other side of the Klang River.

This project requires students to propose a communal facility accommodating several related functions such as meeting and learning in a suburban context.  Students are to develop their own concept for the communal space based on their research of the area and the community’s needs. This working method is intended to have the student design in near full-freedom; however they will be required to make an informed response firstly to the surrounding context. Their capacity to respond architecturally and contextually to this task will form part of the basis upon which they will be marked