Project task 

The task is to design a Discovery Center (Visitor Center) specifically for Kampung Janda Baik. The overall project should emphasize and celebrate the diversity of culture, heritage, and history, and the well-being of the place ,the community, activities, and economy. The building structure will serve the following purposes.

 

▪ To provide a physical point of reference that keeps the culture/ history/ memory/ essence of the place alive

▪ To house and display relevant informative material for visitors to understand and appreciate

▪ To provide areas/spaces to conduct any kind of engaging program related to the place and the exhibition.

 

The program of the Discovery Center should be specifically about the place, people, culture, and history of the site. Students are required to extract and decide on the significant value/essence and the distinctive or interesting characteristic of the place that would be best to represent and express the spirit of the place (genius loci). This will then be translated into a narrative that would aid the design and journey of the Discovery Center.