Wisteria,Bandar Rimbayu
Teluk Panglima Garang, Selangor Darul Ehsan
We are naturally inclined towards natural open spaces and an active lifestyle. In the earlier days when densities were low and cars were few, there were no questions of open green spaces as they were in abundance and streets were safe to play on. Today with several cars to a house-hold and houses jam-packed together, such things have become a distant memory.
The challenge today is not how to recreate or resurrect that memory but how to adapt that lifestyle into modern times and into the current urban context. To recreate the green environment, the available green area are agglomerated and then stretched to form a continuous series of parks that weave their way throughout the township. The weaving would bring the garden to every part of the community and to every home where every resident can access it and enjoy it. Thus the open spaces are democratically shared. The garden also forms the pedestrian link with walkways, jogging paths and cycling lanes. The gardens flow into one another as they jump across the street to create a walkable green linkage between each neighbourhood. This linkage connects the whole development that allows the residents to walk from one end to another and to bring them together, safely in a garden environment. The linear gardens lead to the central garden where people may come together as a community. It is the catalyst that connects and ultimately binds the larger community together.
At the neighbourhood level, this green concept is interpreted as linear back-lane gardens. The back-lane garden is not somewhere far away where you would need to drive there, it is right up to your back yard. It is near and safe that families and children may go out and utilise the park. This would encourage residents to venture outdoors where they may socialize and interact with their community.
The layout is curved following the boundary lines and as it turned onto itself, it created resulting two closed loops. The loops create a visually pleasing environment with natural effect as it eliminates the monotony of long blocks with an ever changing curving view. The streets are planted with trees that soften the environment making it more appealing. The calming effect of tree lined curved streets with road humps create a safer street environment; a place that people would want to be. It would bring people out to the street, reclaiming it for both personal and communal use creating a panorama of community spirit. The curved boundary also forced the blocks to be relatively shorter than the maximum block length. Consequently there are more corner units as the end units are given extra land.
In continuing with the main concept of living in green, we explore the idea of creating a green environment into which we introduce the building. However, it is not just about cobbling together green spaces but to judiciously distribute the green spaces to every home so that it would seem that the green spaces are everywhere. The green spaces are distributed to the back-lane as linear gardens and to accommodate these gardens the ‘back-lanes’ are made wider.
The green spaces are more than just landscaped areas but are articulated as activity zones. The character of the landscaped areas change with the character of the activities within those zones. There are three landscaped zones that begins with each individual home’s backyard garden, progressing to the back-lane neighbourhood garden and to end at the central community garden.
The terraced houses are planned with individual backyard gardens. These are individual private green spaces that expands the indoor spaces as they interact and spills into the backyard garden. The backyard garden provides a safe and private garden where children may play and families may gather that fosters a strong family relationship. The back-lane garden lends its greenery to the back yard gardens, making the whole backyard feeling lusher and bigger.
The back-lane gardens are articulated as linear gardens that run the whole length of the blocks instead of back-lanes. These gardens are right up to each home’s backyard and they become an extension of that backyard where children may go out and play in relative safety as they would be within visual and shouting distance of the house. The intimacy of the gardens encourage the family to go outdoors to exercise, to walk or to just sit under the trees that promotes a healthy living lifestyle; a lifestyle of living in a garden. It is a neighbourhood space where the neighbours may walk-up to each other and spontaneously interact that consequently binds the neighbourhood.
Activities in these public gardens are usually related to and initiated by walking, and so there are pedestrian walkways that run along the back-lane gardens. These pedestrian walkways connect to every back-lane garden and to one another in a network of linked back-lane gardens. This network of linked back-lane gardens eventually lead the residents to the central community garden and the clubhouse. It encourages walking and enjoying the outdoors in a natural setting that not only keeps people in healthy condition but gives them joy and a sense of freedom, a spiritual uplifting. Thus the back-lane gardens become the green backbone that brings the community together and fulfils its function as a communal garden.
The central community garden is at a prominent area, easily accessible by all and highly visible. The high visibility sets an atmosphere of friendliness and creates a safe public space that invites the community to come together. The central community garden and the clubhouse would play host to social events and community activities.
One of the issues with a typical terraced housing is how much the building type is unattached with the outside. They may face a garden or open space but the connection between the spaces is interrupted by the street. The clutter that usually accompanies the car porch further alienates the open spaces from the internal spaces and presents a disconcerting view from the living room. The idea is to re-orientate the living rooms to face the back-lane gardens thus re-connecting the house with the gardens and the outside spaces.
Henceforth more than two thirds of the houses, types A and C are re-oriented to have the living rooms facing the rear where the back-lane gardens are. With this re-orientation, the living room has an unfettered visual and spatial connection with the gardens that not only enlivens the ground floor spaces but increases its apparent size. The gardens are able to be brought right up to the house and into the living room with a direct physical connection. The back-lane gardens become an extension of the backyard garden creating a larger space for outdoor enjoyment and family activities.
By the simple act of turning our backs to the car porch, we are able to return the living room to its prime position. With the status-quo restored, other spaces responded, turning their attention to the living room and the gardens. Full height glass sliding doors at the living room are able to maintain the visual connection between the internal spaces and the garden.
To take advantage of the closeness of the gardens and the view that it provides, the master bedroom is re-oriented to the rear towards the gardens. Full height windows lets in light into the master bedroom and at the same providing visual connection with the gardens.
Less than one third of the houses, type B, has the living room facing the street with the kitchen facing the backyard garden. The ground floor spaces are combined to create one large continuous space that opens up the home and carries the flow to the backyard garden. This retains the traditional connection between the kitchen and the yard play areas at each home.
Each bedroom on the first floor has its own en-suite bathroom and a nook for the wardrobe, a practical layout that free the bedroom space. A large master bedroom fills the width of the home and is provided with a walkthrough wardrobe that leads towards the bathroom.
Wisteria,Bandar Rimbayu
Teluk Panglima Garang, Selangor Darul Ehsan
We are naturally inclined towards natural open spaces and an active lifestyle. In the earlier days when densities were low and cars were few, there were no questions of open green spaces as they were in abundance and streets were safe to play on. Today with several cars to a house-hold and houses jam-packed together, such things have become a distant memory.
The challenge today is not how to recreate or resurrect that memory but how to adapt that lifestyle into modern times and into the current urban context. To recreate the green environment, the available green area are agglomerated and then stretched to form a continuous series of parks that weave their way throughout the township. The weaving would bring the garden to every part of the community and to every home where every resident can access it and enjoy it. Thus the open spaces are democratically shared. The garden also forms the pedestrian link with walkways, jogging paths and cycling lanes. The gardens flow into one another as they jump across the street to create a walkable green linkage between each neighbourhood. This linkage connects the whole development that allows the residents to walk from one end to another and to bring them together, safely in a garden environment. The linear gardens lead to the central garden where people may come together as a community. It is the catalyst that connects and ultimately binds the larger community together.
At the neighbourhood level, this green concept is interpreted as linear back-lane gardens. The back-lane garden is not somewhere far away where you would need to drive there, it is right up to your back yard. It is near and safe that families and children may go out and utilise the park. This would encourage residents to venture outdoors where they may socialize and interact with their community.
The layout is curved following the boundary lines and as it turned onto itself, it created resulting two closed loops. The loops create a visually pleasing environment with natural effect as it eliminates the monotony of long blocks with an ever changing curving view. The streets are planted with trees that soften the environment making it more appealing. The calming effect of tree lined curved streets with road humps create a safer street environment; a place that people would want to be. It would bring people out to the street, reclaiming it for both personal and communal use creating a panorama of community spirit. The curved boundary also forced the blocks to be relatively shorter than the maximum block length. Consequently there are more corner units as the end units are given extra land.
In continuing with the main concept of living in green, we explore the idea of creating a green environment into which we introduce the building. However, it is not just about cobbling together green spaces but to judiciously distribute the green spaces to every home so that it would seem that the green spaces are everywhere. The green spaces are distributed to the back-lane as linear gardens and to accommodate these gardens the ‘back-lanes’ are made wider.
The green spaces are more than just landscaped areas but are articulated as activity zones. The character of the landscaped areas change with the character of the activities within those zones. There are three landscaped zones that begins with each individual home’s backyard garden, progressing to the back-lane neighbourhood garden and to end at the central community garden.
The terraced houses are planned with individual backyard gardens. These are individual private green spaces that expands the indoor spaces as they interact and spills into the backyard garden. The backyard garden provides a safe and private garden where children may play and families may gather that fosters a strong family relationship. The back-lane garden lends its greenery to the back yard gardens, making the whole backyard feeling lusher and bigger.
The back-lane gardens are articulated as linear gardens that run the whole length of the blocks instead of back-lanes. These gardens are right up to each home’s backyard and they become an extension of that backyard where children may go out and play in relative safety as they would be within visual and shouting distance of the house. The intimacy of the gardens encourage the family to go outdoors to exercise, to walk or to just sit under the trees that promotes a healthy living lifestyle; a lifestyle of living in a garden. It is a neighbourhood space where the neighbours may walk-up to each other and spontaneously interact that consequently binds the neighbourhood.
Activities in these public gardens are usually related to and initiated by walking, and so there are pedestrian walkways that run along the back-lane gardens. These pedestrian walkways connect to every back-lane garden and to one another in a network of linked back-lane gardens. This network of linked back-lane gardens eventually lead the residents to the central community garden and the clubhouse. It encourages walking and enjoying the outdoors in a natural setting that not only keeps people in healthy condition but gives them joy and a sense of freedom, a spiritual uplifting. Thus the back-lane gardens become the green backbone that brings the community together and fulfils its function as a communal garden.
The central community garden is at a prominent area, easily accessible by all and highly visible. The high visibility sets an atmosphere of friendliness and creates a safe public space that invites the community to come together. The central community garden and the clubhouse would play host to social events and community activities.
One of the issues with a typical terraced housing is how much the building type is unattached with the outside. They may face a garden or open space but the connection between the spaces is interrupted by the street. The clutter that usually accompanies the car porch further alienates the open spaces from the internal spaces and presents a disconcerting view from the living room. The idea is to re-orientate the living rooms to face the back-lane gardens thus re-connecting the house with the gardens and the outside spaces.
Henceforth more than two thirds of the houses, types A and C are re-oriented to have the living rooms facing the rear where the back-lane gardens are. With this re-orientation, the living room has an unfettered visual and spatial connection with the gardens that not only enlivens the ground floor spaces but increases its apparent size. The gardens are able to be brought right up to the house and into the living room with a direct physical connection. The back-lane gardens become an extension of the backyard garden creating a larger space for outdoor enjoyment and family activities.
By the simple act of turning our backs to the car porch, we are able to return the living room to its prime position. With the status-quo restored, other spaces responded, turning their attention to the living room and the gardens. Full height glass sliding doors at the living room are able to maintain the visual connection between the internal spaces and the garden.
To take advantage of the closeness of the gardens and the view that it provides, the master bedroom is re-oriented to the rear towards the gardens. Full height windows lets in light into the master bedroom and at the same providing visual connection with the gardens.
Less than one third of the houses, type B, has the living room facing the street with the kitchen facing the backyard garden. The ground floor spaces are combined to create one large continuous space that opens up the home and carries the flow to the backyard garden. This retains the traditional connection between the kitchen and the yard play areas at each home.
Each bedroom on the first floor has its own en-suite bathroom and a nook for the wardrobe, a practical layout that free the bedroom space. A large master bedroom fills the width of the home and is provided with a walkthrough wardrobe that leads towards the bathroom.
Wisteria,Bandar Rimbayu
Teluk Panglima Garang, Selangor Darul Ehsan
We are naturally inclined towards natural open spaces and an active lifestyle. In the earlier days when densities were low and cars were few, there were no questions of open green spaces as they were in abundance and streets were safe to play on. Today with several cars to a house-hold and houses jam-packed together, such things have become a distant memory.
The challenge today is not how to recreate or resurrect that memory but how to adapt that lifestyle into modern times and into the current urban context. To recreate the green environment, the available green area are agglomerated and then stretched to form a continuous series of parks that weave their way throughout the township. The weaving would bring the garden to every part of the community and to every home where every resident can access it and enjoy it. Thus the open spaces are democratically shared. The garden also forms the pedestrian link with walkways, jogging paths and cycling lanes. The gardens flow into one another as they jump across the street to create a walkable green linkage between each neighbourhood. This linkage connects the whole development that allows the residents to walk from one end to another and to bring them together, safely in a garden environment. The linear gardens lead to the central garden where people may come together as a community. It is the catalyst that connects and ultimately binds the larger community together.
At the neighbourhood level, this green concept is interpreted as linear back-lane gardens. The back-lane garden is not somewhere far away where you would need to drive there, it is right up to your back yard. It is near and safe that families and children may go out and utilise the park. This would encourage residents to venture outdoors where they may socialize and interact with their community.
The layout is curved following the boundary lines and as it turned onto itself, it created resulting two closed loops. The loops create a visually pleasing environment with natural effect as it eliminates the monotony of long blocks with an ever changing curving view. The streets are planted with trees that soften the environment making it more appealing. The calming effect of tree lined curved streets with road humps create a safer street environment; a place that people would want to be. It would bring people out to the street, reclaiming it for both personal and communal use creating a panorama of community spirit. The curved boundary also forced the blocks to be relatively shorter than the maximum block length. Consequently there are more corner units as the end units are given extra land.
In continuing with the main concept of living in green, we explore the idea of creating a green environment into which we introduce the building. However, it is not just about cobbling together green spaces but to judiciously distribute the green spaces to every home so that it would seem that the green spaces are everywhere. The green spaces are distributed to the back-lane as linear gardens and to accommodate these gardens the ‘back-lanes’ are made wider.
The green spaces are more than just landscaped areas but are articulated as activity zones. The character of the landscaped areas change with the character of the activities within those zones. There are three landscaped zones that begins with each individual home’s backyard garden, progressing to the back-lane neighbourhood garden and to end at the central community garden.
The terraced houses are planned with individual backyard gardens. These are individual private green spaces that expands the indoor spaces as they interact and spills into the backyard garden. The backyard garden provides a safe and private garden where children may play and families may gather that fosters a strong family relationship. The back-lane garden lends its greenery to the back yard gardens, making the whole backyard feeling lusher and bigger.
The back-lane gardens are articulated as linear gardens that run the whole length of the blocks instead of back-lanes. These gardens are right up to each home’s backyard and they become an extension of that backyard where children may go out and play in relative safety as they would be within visual and shouting distance of the house. The intimacy of the gardens encourage the family to go outdoors to exercise, to walk or to just sit under the trees that promotes a healthy living lifestyle; a lifestyle of living in a garden. It is a neighbourhood space where the neighbours may walk-up to each other and spontaneously interact that consequently binds the neighbourhood.
Activities in these public gardens are usually related to and initiated by walking, and so there are pedestrian walkways that run along the back-lane gardens. These pedestrian walkways connect to every back-lane garden and to one another in a network of linked back-lane gardens. This network of linked back-lane gardens eventually lead the residents to the central community garden and the clubhouse. It encourages walking and enjoying the outdoors in a natural setting that not only keeps people in healthy condition but gives them joy and a sense of freedom, a spiritual uplifting. Thus the back-lane gardens become the green backbone that brings the community together and fulfils its function as a communal garden.
The central community garden is at a prominent area, easily accessible by all and highly visible. The high visibility sets an atmosphere of friendliness and creates a safe public space that invites the community to come together. The central community garden and the clubhouse would play host to social events and community activities.
One of the issues with a typical terraced housing is how much the building type is unattached with the outside. They may face a garden or open space but the connection between the spaces is interrupted by the street. The clutter that usually accompanies the car porch further alienates the open spaces from the internal spaces and presents a disconcerting view from the living room. The idea is to re-orientate the living rooms to face the back-lane gardens thus re-connecting the house with the gardens and the outside spaces.
Henceforth more than two thirds of the houses, types A and C are re-oriented to have the living rooms facing the rear where the back-lane gardens are. With this re-orientation, the living room has an unfettered visual and spatial connection with the gardens that not only enlivens the ground floor spaces but increases its apparent size. The gardens are able to be brought right up to the house and into the living room with a direct physical connection. The back-lane gardens become an extension of the backyard garden creating a larger space for outdoor enjoyment and family activities.
By the simple act of turning our backs to the car porch, we are able to return the living room to its prime position. With the status-quo restored, other spaces responded, turning their attention to the living room and the gardens. Full height glass sliding doors at the living room are able to maintain the visual connection between the internal spaces and the garden.
To take advantage of the closeness of the gardens and the view that it provides, the master bedroom is re-oriented to the rear towards the gardens. Full height windows lets in light into the master bedroom and at the same providing visual connection with the gardens.
Less than one third of the houses, type B, has the living room facing the street with the kitchen facing the backyard garden. The ground floor spaces are combined to create one large continuous space that opens up the home and carries the flow to the backyard garden. This retains the traditional connection between the kitchen and the yard play areas at each home.
Each bedroom on the first floor has its own en-suite bathroom and a nook for the wardrobe, a practical layout that free the bedroom space. A large master bedroom fills the width of the home and is provided with a walkthrough wardrobe that leads towards the bathroom.
Wisteria,Bandar Rimbayu
Teluk Panglima Garang, Selangor Darul Ehsan
We are naturally inclined towards natural open spaces and an active lifestyle. In the earlier days when densities were low and cars were few, there were no questions of open green spaces as they were in abundance and streets were safe to play on. Today with several cars to a house-hold and houses jam-packed together, such things have become a distant memory.
The challenge today is not how to recreate or resurrect that memory but how to adapt that lifestyle into modern times and into the current urban context. To recreate the green environment, the available green area are agglomerated and then stretched to form a continuous series of parks that weave their way throughout the township. The weaving would bring the garden to every part of the community and to every home where every resident can access it and enjoy it. Thus the open spaces are democratically shared. The garden also forms the pedestrian link with walkways, jogging paths and cycling lanes. The gardens flow into one another as they jump across the street to create a walkable green linkage between each neighbourhood. This linkage connects the whole development that allows the residents to walk from one end to another and to bring them together, safely in a garden environment. The linear gardens lead to the central garden where people may come together as a community. It is the catalyst that connects and ultimately binds the larger community together.
At the neighbourhood level, this green concept is interpreted as linear back-lane gardens. The back-lane garden is not somewhere far away where you would need to drive there, it is right up to your back yard. It is near and safe that families and children may go out and utilise the park. This would encourage residents to venture outdoors where they may socialize and interact with their community.
The layout is curved following the boundary lines and as it turned onto itself, it created resulting two closed loops. The loops create a visually pleasing environment with natural effect as it eliminates the monotony of long blocks with an ever changing curving view. The streets are planted with trees that soften the environment making it more appealing. The calming effect of tree lined curved streets with road humps create a safer street environment; a place that people would want to be. It would bring people out to the street, reclaiming it for both personal and communal use creating a panorama of community spirit. The curved boundary also forced the blocks to be relatively shorter than the maximum block length. Consequently there are more corner units as the end units are given extra land.
In continuing with the main concept of living in green, we explore the idea of creating a green environment into which we introduce the building. However, it is not just about cobbling together green spaces but to judiciously distribute the green spaces to every home so that it would seem that the green spaces are everywhere. The green spaces are distributed to the back-lane as linear gardens and to accommodate these gardens the ‘back-lanes’ are made wider.
The green spaces are more than just landscaped areas but are articulated as activity zones. The character of the landscaped areas change with the character of the activities within those zones. There are three landscaped zones that begins with each individual home’s backyard garden, progressing to the back-lane neighbourhood garden and to end at the central community garden.
The terraced houses are planned with individual backyard gardens. These are individual private green spaces that expands the indoor spaces as they interact and spills into the backyard garden. The backyard garden provides a safe and private garden where children may play and families may gather that fosters a strong family relationship. The back-lane garden lends its greenery to the back yard gardens, making the whole backyard feeling lusher and bigger.
The back-lane gardens are articulated as linear gardens that run the whole length of the blocks instead of back-lanes. These gardens are right up to each home’s backyard and they become an extension of that backyard where children may go out and play in relative safety as they would be within visual and shouting distance of the house. The intimacy of the gardens encourage the family to go outdoors to exercise, to walk or to just sit under the trees that promotes a healthy living lifestyle; a lifestyle of living in a garden. It is a neighbourhood space where the neighbours may walk-up to each other and spontaneously interact that consequently binds the neighbourhood.
Activities in these public gardens are usually related to and initiated by walking, and so there are pedestrian walkways that run along the back-lane gardens. These pedestrian walkways connect to every back-lane garden and to one another in a network of linked back-lane gardens. This network of linked back-lane gardens eventually lead the residents to the central community garden and the clubhouse. It encourages walking and enjoying the outdoors in a natural setting that not only keeps people in healthy condition but gives them joy and a sense of freedom, a spiritual uplifting. Thus the back-lane gardens become the green backbone that brings the community together and fulfils its function as a communal garden.
The central community garden is at a prominent area, easily accessible by all and highly visible. The high visibility sets an atmosphere of friendliness and creates a safe public space that invites the community to come together. The central community garden and the clubhouse would play host to social events and community activities.
One of the issues with a typical terraced housing is how much the building type is unattached with the outside. They may face a garden or open space but the connection between the spaces is interrupted by the street. The clutter that usually accompanies the car porch further alienates the open spaces from the internal spaces and presents a disconcerting view from the living room. The idea is to re-orientate the living rooms to face the back-lane gardens thus re-connecting the house with the gardens and the outside spaces.
Henceforth more than two thirds of the houses, types A and C are re-oriented to have the living rooms facing the rear where the back-lane gardens are. With this re-orientation, the living room has an unfettered visual and spatial connection with the gardens that not only enlivens the ground floor spaces but increases its apparent size. The gardens are able to be brought right up to the house and into the living room with a direct physical connection. The back-lane gardens become an extension of the backyard garden creating a larger space for outdoor enjoyment and family activities.
By the simple act of turning our backs to the car porch, we are able to return the living room to its prime position. With the status-quo restored, other spaces responded, turning their attention to the living room and the gardens. Full height glass sliding doors at the living room are able to maintain the visual connection between the internal spaces and the garden.
To take advantage of the closeness of the gardens and the view that it provides, the master bedroom is re-oriented to the rear towards the gardens. Full height windows lets in light into the master bedroom and at the same providing visual connection with the gardens.
Less than one third of the houses, type B, has the living room facing the street with the kitchen facing the backyard garden. The ground floor spaces are combined to create one large continuous space that opens up the home and carries the flow to the backyard garden. This retains the traditional connection between the kitchen and the yard play areas at each home.
Each bedroom on the first floor has its own en-suite bathroom and a nook for the wardrobe, a practical layout that free the bedroom space. A large master bedroom fills the width of the home and is provided with a walkthrough wardrobe that leads towards the bathroom.
Wisteria,Bandar Rimbayu
Teluk Panglima Garang, Selangor Darul Ehsan
We are naturally inclined towards natural open spaces and an active lifestyle. In the earlier days when densities were low and cars were few, there were no questions of open green spaces as they were in abundance and streets were safe to play on. Today with several cars to a house-hold and houses jam-packed together, such things have become a distant memory.
The challenge today is not how to recreate or resurrect that memory but how to adapt that lifestyle into modern times and into the current urban context. To recreate the green environment, the available green area are agglomerated and then stretched to form a continuous series of parks that weave their way throughout the township. The weaving would bring the garden to every part of the community and to every home where every resident can access it and enjoy it. Thus the open spaces are democratically shared. The garden also forms the pedestrian link with walkways, jogging paths and cycling lanes. The gardens flow into one another as they jump across the street to create a walkable green linkage between each neighbourhood. This linkage connects the whole development that allows the residents to walk from one end to another and to bring them together, safely in a garden environment. The linear gardens lead to the central garden where people may come together as a community. It is the catalyst that connects and ultimately binds the larger community together.
At the neighbourhood level, this green concept is interpreted as linear back-lane gardens. The back-lane garden is not somewhere far away where you would need to drive there, it is right up to your back yard. It is near and safe that families and children may go out and utilise the park. This would encourage residents to venture outdoors where they may socialize and interact with their community.
The layout is curved following the boundary lines and as it turned onto itself, it created resulting two closed loops. The loops create a visually pleasing environment with natural effect as it eliminates the monotony of long blocks with an ever changing curving view. The streets are planted with trees that soften the environment making it more appealing. The calming effect of tree lined curved streets with road humps create a safer street environment; a place that people would want to be. It would bring people out to the street, reclaiming it for both personal and communal use creating a panorama of community spirit. The curved boundary also forced the blocks to be relatively shorter than the maximum block length. Consequently there are more corner units as the end units are given extra land.
In continuing with the main concept of living in green, we explore the idea of creating a green environment into which we introduce the building. However, it is not just about cobbling together green spaces but to judiciously distribute the green spaces to every home so that it would seem that the green spaces are everywhere. The green spaces are distributed to the back-lane as linear gardens and to accommodate these gardens the ‘back-lanes’ are made wider.
The green spaces are more than just landscaped areas but are articulated as activity zones. The character of the landscaped areas change with the character of the activities within those zones. There are three landscaped zones that begins with each individual home’s backyard garden, progressing to the back-lane neighbourhood garden and to end at the central community garden.
The terraced houses are planned with individual backyard gardens. These are individual private green spaces that expands the indoor spaces as they interact and spills into the backyard garden. The backyard garden provides a safe and private garden where children may play and families may gather that fosters a strong family relationship. The back-lane garden lends its greenery to the back yard gardens, making the whole backyard feeling lusher and bigger.
The back-lane gardens are articulated as linear gardens that run the whole length of the blocks instead of back-lanes. These gardens are right up to each home’s backyard and they become an extension of that backyard where children may go out and play in relative safety as they would be within visual and shouting distance of the house. The intimacy of the gardens encourage the family to go outdoors to exercise, to walk or to just sit under the trees that promotes a healthy living lifestyle; a lifestyle of living in a garden. It is a neighbourhood space where the neighbours may walk-up to each other and spontaneously interact that consequently binds the neighbourhood.
Activities in these public gardens are usually related to and initiated by walking, and so there are pedestrian walkways that run along the back-lane gardens. These pedestrian walkways connect to every back-lane garden and to one another in a network of linked back-lane gardens. This network of linked back-lane gardens eventually lead the residents to the central community garden and the clubhouse. It encourages walking and enjoying the outdoors in a natural setting that not only keeps people in healthy condition but gives them joy and a sense of freedom, a spiritual uplifting. Thus the back-lane gardens become the green backbone that brings the community together and fulfils its function as a communal garden.
The central community garden is at a prominent area, easily accessible by all and highly visible. The high visibility sets an atmosphere of friendliness and creates a safe public space that invites the community to come together. The central community garden and the clubhouse would play host to social events and community activities.
One of the issues with a typical terraced housing is how much the building type is unattached with the outside. They may face a garden or open space but the connection between the spaces is interrupted by the street. The clutter that usually accompanies the car porch further alienates the open spaces from the internal spaces and presents a disconcerting view from the living room. The idea is to re-orientate the living rooms to face the back-lane gardens thus re-connecting the house with the gardens and the outside spaces.
Henceforth more than two thirds of the houses, types A and C are re-oriented to have the living rooms facing the rear where the back-lane gardens are. With this re-orientation, the living room has an unfettered visual and spatial connection with the gardens that not only enlivens the ground floor spaces but increases its apparent size. The gardens are able to be brought right up to the house and into the living room with a direct physical connection. The back-lane gardens become an extension of the backyard garden creating a larger space for outdoor enjoyment and family activities.
By the simple act of turning our backs to the car porch, we are able to return the living room to its prime position. With the status-quo restored, other spaces responded, turning their attention to the living room and the gardens. Full height glass sliding doors at the living room are able to maintain the visual connection between the internal spaces and the garden.
To take advantage of the closeness of the gardens and the view that it provides, the master bedroom is re-oriented to the rear towards the gardens. Full height windows lets in light into the master bedroom and at the same providing visual connection with the gardens.
Less than one third of the houses, type B, has the living room facing the street with the kitchen facing the backyard garden. The ground floor spaces are combined to create one large continuous space that opens up the home and carries the flow to the backyard garden. This retains the traditional connection between the kitchen and the yard play areas at each home.
Each bedroom on the first floor has its own en-suite bathroom and a nook for the wardrobe, a practical layout that free the bedroom space. A large master bedroom fills the width of the home and is provided with a walkthrough wardrobe that leads towards the bathroom.
Wisteria,Bandar Rimbayu
Teluk Panglima Garang, Selangor Darul Ehsan
We are naturally inclined towards natural open spaces and an active lifestyle. In the earlier days when densities were low and cars were few, there were no questions of open green spaces as they were in abundance and streets were safe to play on. Today with several cars to a house-hold and houses jam-packed together, such things have become a distant memory.
The challenge today is not how to recreate or resurrect that memory but how to adapt that lifestyle into modern times and into the current urban context. To recreate the green environment, the available green area are agglomerated and then stretched to form a continuous series of parks that weave their way throughout the township. The weaving would bring the garden to every part of the community and to every home where every resident can access it and enjoy it. Thus the open spaces are democratically shared. The garden also forms the pedestrian link with walkways, jogging paths and cycling lanes. The gardens flow into one another as they jump across the street to create a walkable green linkage between each neighbourhood. This linkage connects the whole development that allows the residents to walk from one end to another and to bring them together, safely in a garden environment. The linear gardens lead to the central garden where people may come together as a community. It is the catalyst that connects and ultimately binds the larger community together.
At the neighbourhood level, this green concept is interpreted as linear back-lane gardens. The back-lane garden is not somewhere far away where you would need to drive there, it is right up to your back yard. It is near and safe that families and children may go out and utilise the park. This would encourage residents to venture outdoors where they may socialize and interact with their community.
The layout is curved following the boundary lines and as it turned onto itself, it created resulting two closed loops. The loops create a visually pleasing environment with natural effect as it eliminates the monotony of long blocks with an ever changing curving view. The streets are planted with trees that soften the environment making it more appealing. The calming effect of tree lined curved streets with road humps create a safer street environment; a place that people would want to be. It would bring people out to the street, reclaiming it for both personal and communal use creating a panorama of community spirit. The curved boundary also forced the blocks to be relatively shorter than the maximum block length. Consequently there are more corner units as the end units are given extra land.
In continuing with the main concept of living in green, we explore the idea of creating a green environment into which we introduce the building. However, it is not just about cobbling together green spaces but to judiciously distribute the green spaces to every home so that it would seem that the green spaces are everywhere. The green spaces are distributed to the back-lane as linear gardens and to accommodate these gardens the ‘back-lanes’ are made wider.
The green spaces are more than just landscaped areas but are articulated as activity zones. The character of the landscaped areas change with the character of the activities within those zones. There are three landscaped zones that begins with each individual home’s backyard garden, progressing to the back-lane neighbourhood garden and to end at the central community garden.
The terraced houses are planned with individual backyard gardens. These are individual private green spaces that expands the indoor spaces as they interact and spills into the backyard garden. The backyard garden provides a safe and private garden where children may play and families may gather that fosters a strong family relationship. The back-lane garden lends its greenery to the back yard gardens, making the whole backyard feeling lusher and bigger.
The back-lane gardens are articulated as linear gardens that run the whole length of the blocks instead of back-lanes. These gardens are right up to each home’s backyard and they become an extension of that backyard where children may go out and play in relative safety as they would be within visual and shouting distance of the house. The intimacy of the gardens encourage the family to go outdoors to exercise, to walk or to just sit under the trees that promotes a healthy living lifestyle; a lifestyle of living in a garden. It is a neighbourhood space where the neighbours may walk-up to each other and spontaneously interact that consequently binds the neighbourhood.
Activities in these public gardens are usually related to and initiated by walking, and so there are pedestrian walkways that run along the back-lane gardens. These pedestrian walkways connect to every back-lane garden and to one another in a network of linked back-lane gardens. This network of linked back-lane gardens eventually lead the residents to the central community garden and the clubhouse. It encourages walking and enjoying the outdoors in a natural setting that not only keeps people in healthy condition but gives them joy and a sense of freedom, a spiritual uplifting. Thus the back-lane gardens become the green backbone that brings the community together and fulfils its function as a communal garden.
The central community garden is at a prominent area, easily accessible by all and highly visible. The high visibility sets an atmosphere of friendliness and creates a safe public space that invites the community to come together. The central community garden and the clubhouse would play host to social events and community activities.
One of the issues with a typical terraced housing is how much the building type is unattached with the outside. They may face a garden or open space but the connection between the spaces is interrupted by the street. The clutter that usually accompanies the car porch further alienates the open spaces from the internal spaces and presents a disconcerting view from the living room. The idea is to re-orientate the living rooms to face the back-lane gardens thus re-connecting the house with the gardens and the outside spaces.
Henceforth more than two thirds of the houses, types A and C are re-oriented to have the living rooms facing the rear where the back-lane gardens are. With this re-orientation, the living room has an unfettered visual and spatial connection with the gardens that not only enlivens the ground floor spaces but increases its apparent size. The gardens are able to be brought right up to the house and into the living room with a direct physical connection. The back-lane gardens become an extension of the backyard garden creating a larger space for outdoor enjoyment and family activities.
By the simple act of turning our backs to the car porch, we are able to return the living room to its prime position. With the status-quo restored, other spaces responded, turning their attention to the living room and the gardens. Full height glass sliding doors at the living room are able to maintain the visual connection between the internal spaces and the garden.
To take advantage of the closeness of the gardens and the view that it provides, the master bedroom is re-oriented to the rear towards the gardens. Full height windows lets in light into the master bedroom and at the same providing visual connection with the gardens.
Less than one third of the houses, type B, has the living room facing the street with the kitchen facing the backyard garden. The ground floor spaces are combined to create one large continuous space that opens up the home and carries the flow to the backyard garden. This retains the traditional connection between the kitchen and the yard play areas at each home.
Each bedroom on the first floor has its own en-suite bathroom and a nook for the wardrobe, a practical layout that free the bedroom space. A large master bedroom fills the width of the home and is provided with a walkthrough wardrobe that leads towards the bathroom.
Wisteria,Bandar Rimbayu
Teluk Panglima Garang, Selangor Darul Ehsan
We are naturally inclined towards natural open spaces and an active lifestyle. In the earlier days when densities were low and cars were few, there were no questions of open green spaces as they were in abundance and streets were safe to play on. Today with several cars to a house-hold and houses jam-packed together, such things have become a distant memory.
The challenge today is not how to recreate or resurrect that memory but how to adapt that lifestyle into modern times and into the current urban context. To recreate the green environment, the available green area are agglomerated and then stretched to form a continuous series of parks that weave their way throughout the township. The weaving would bring the garden to every part of the community and to every home where every resident can access it and enjoy it. Thus the open spaces are democratically shared. The garden also forms the pedestrian link with walkways, jogging paths and cycling lanes. The gardens flow into one another as they jump across the street to create a walkable green linkage between each neighbourhood. This linkage connects the whole development that allows the residents to walk from one end to another and to bring them together, safely in a garden environment. The linear gardens lead to the central garden where people may come together as a community. It is the catalyst that connects and ultimately binds the larger community together.
At the neighbourhood level, this green concept is interpreted as linear back-lane gardens. The back-lane garden is not somewhere far away where you would need to drive there, it is right up to your back yard. It is near and safe that families and children may go out and utilise the park. This would encourage residents to venture outdoors where they may socialize and interact with their community.
The layout is curved following the boundary lines and as it turned onto itself, it created resulting two closed loops. The loops create a visually pleasing environment with natural effect as it eliminates the monotony of long blocks with an ever changing curving view. The streets are planted with trees that soften the environment making it more appealing. The calming effect of tree lined curved streets with road humps create a safer street environment; a place that people would want to be. It would bring people out to the street, reclaiming it for both personal and communal use creating a panorama of community spirit. The curved boundary also forced the blocks to be relatively shorter than the maximum block length. Consequently there are more corner units as the end units are given extra land.
In continuing with the main concept of living in green, we explore the idea of creating a green environment into which we introduce the building. However, it is not just about cobbling together green spaces but to judiciously distribute the green spaces to every home so that it would seem that the green spaces are everywhere. The green spaces are distributed to the back-lane as linear gardens and to accommodate these gardens the ‘back-lanes’ are made wider.
The green spaces are more than just landscaped areas but are articulated as activity zones. The character of the landscaped areas change with the character of the activities within those zones. There are three landscaped zones that begins with each individual home’s backyard garden, progressing to the back-lane neighbourhood garden and to end at the central community garden.
The terraced houses are planned with individual backyard gardens. These are individual private green spaces that expands the indoor spaces as they interact and spills into the backyard garden. The backyard garden provides a safe and private garden where children may play and families may gather that fosters a strong family relationship. The back-lane garden lends its greenery to the back yard gardens, making the whole backyard feeling lusher and bigger.
The back-lane gardens are articulated as linear gardens that run the whole length of the blocks instead of back-lanes. These gardens are right up to each home’s backyard and they become an extension of that backyard where children may go out and play in relative safety as they would be within visual and shouting distance of the house. The intimacy of the gardens encourage the family to go outdoors to exercise, to walk or to just sit under the trees that promotes a healthy living lifestyle; a lifestyle of living in a garden. It is a neighbourhood space where the neighbours may walk-up to each other and spontaneously interact that consequently binds the neighbourhood.
Activities in these public gardens are usually related to and initiated by walking, and so there are pedestrian walkways that run along the back-lane gardens. These pedestrian walkways connect to every back-lane garden and to one another in a network of linked back-lane gardens. This network of linked back-lane gardens eventually lead the residents to the central community garden and the clubhouse. It encourages walking and enjoying the outdoors in a natural setting that not only keeps people in healthy condition but gives them joy and a sense of freedom, a spiritual uplifting. Thus the back-lane gardens become the green backbone that brings the community together and fulfils its function as a communal garden.
The central community garden is at a prominent area, easily accessible by all and highly visible. The high visibility sets an atmosphere of friendliness and creates a safe public space that invites the community to come together. The central community garden and the clubhouse would play host to social events and community activities.
One of the issues with a typical terraced housing is how much the building type is unattached with the outside. They may face a garden or open space but the connection between the spaces is interrupted by the street. The clutter that usually accompanies the car porch further alienates the open spaces from the internal spaces and presents a disconcerting view from the living room. The idea is to re-orientate the living rooms to face the back-lane gardens thus re-connecting the house with the gardens and the outside spaces.
Henceforth more than two thirds of the houses, types A and C are re-oriented to have the living rooms facing the rear where the back-lane gardens are. With this re-orientation, the living room has an unfettered visual and spatial connection with the gardens that not only enlivens the ground floor spaces but increases its apparent size. The gardens are able to be brought right up to the house and into the living room with a direct physical connection. The back-lane gardens become an extension of the backyard garden creating a larger space for outdoor enjoyment and family activities.
By the simple act of turning our backs to the car porch, we are able to return the living room to its prime position. With the status-quo restored, other spaces responded, turning their attention to the living room and the gardens. Full height glass sliding doors at the living room are able to maintain the visual connection between the internal spaces and the garden.
To take advantage of the closeness of the gardens and the view that it provides, the master bedroom is re-oriented to the rear towards the gardens. Full height windows lets in light into the master bedroom and at the same providing visual connection with the gardens.
Less than one third of the houses, type B, has the living room facing the street with the kitchen facing the backyard garden. The ground floor spaces are combined to create one large continuous space that opens up the home and carries the flow to the backyard garden. This retains the traditional connection between the kitchen and the yard play areas at each home.
Each bedroom on the first floor has its own en-suite bathroom and a nook for the wardrobe, a practical layout that free the bedroom space. A large master bedroom fills the width of the home and is provided with a walkthrough wardrobe that leads towards the bathroom.
Wisteria,Bandar Rimbayu
Teluk Panglima Garang, Selangor Darul Ehsan
We are naturally inclined towards natural open spaces and an active lifestyle. In the earlier days when densities were low and cars were few, there were no questions of open green spaces as they were in abundance and streets were safe to play on. Today with several cars to a house-hold and houses jam-packed together, such things have become a distant memory.
The challenge today is not how to recreate or resurrect that memory but how to adapt that lifestyle into modern times and into the current urban context. To recreate the green environment, the available green area are agglomerated and then stretched to form a continuous series of parks that weave their way throughout the township. The weaving would bring the garden to every part of the community and to every home where every resident can access it and enjoy it. Thus the open spaces are democratically shared. The garden also forms the pedestrian link with walkways, jogging paths and cycling lanes. The gardens flow into one another as they jump across the street to create a walkable green linkage between each neighbourhood. This linkage connects the whole development that allows the residents to walk from one end to another and to bring them together, safely in a garden environment. The linear gardens lead to the central garden where people may come together as a community. It is the catalyst that connects and ultimately binds the larger community together.
At the neighbourhood level, this green concept is interpreted as linear back-lane gardens. The back-lane garden is not somewhere far away where you would need to drive there, it is right up to your back yard. It is near and safe that families and children may go out and utilise the park. This would encourage residents to venture outdoors where they may socialize and interact with their community.
The layout is curved following the boundary lines and as it turned onto itself, it created resulting two closed loops. The loops create a visually pleasing environment with natural effect as it eliminates the monotony of long blocks with an ever changing curving view. The streets are planted with trees that soften the environment making it more appealing. The calming effect of tree lined curved streets with road humps create a safer street environment; a place that people would want to be. It would bring people out to the street, reclaiming it for both personal and communal use creating a panorama of community spirit. The curved boundary also forced the blocks to be relatively shorter than the maximum block length. Consequently there are more corner units as the end units are given extra land.
In continuing with the main concept of living in green, we explore the idea of creating a green environment into which we introduce the building. However, it is not just about cobbling together green spaces but to judiciously distribute the green spaces to every home so that it would seem that the green spaces are everywhere. The green spaces are distributed to the back-lane as linear gardens and to accommodate these gardens the ‘back-lanes’ are made wider.
The green spaces are more than just landscaped areas but are articulated as activity zones. The character of the landscaped areas change with the character of the activities within those zones. There are three landscaped zones that begins with each individual home’s backyard garden, progressing to the back-lane neighbourhood garden and to end at the central community garden.
The terraced houses are planned with individual backyard gardens. These are individual private green spaces that expands the indoor spaces as they interact and spills into the backyard garden. The backyard garden provides a safe and private garden where children may play and families may gather that fosters a strong family relationship. The back-lane garden lends its greenery to the back yard gardens, making the whole backyard feeling lusher and bigger.
The back-lane gardens are articulated as linear gardens that run the whole length of the blocks instead of back-lanes. These gardens are right up to each home’s backyard and they become an extension of that backyard where children may go out and play in relative safety as they would be within visual and shouting distance of the house. The intimacy of the gardens encourage the family to go outdoors to exercise, to walk or to just sit under the trees that promotes a healthy living lifestyle; a lifestyle of living in a garden. It is a neighbourhood space where the neighbours may walk-up to each other and spontaneously interact that consequently binds the neighbourhood.
Activities in these public gardens are usually related to and initiated by walking, and so there are pedestrian walkways that run along the back-lane gardens. These pedestrian walkways connect to every back-lane garden and to one another in a network of linked back-lane gardens. This network of linked back-lane gardens eventually lead the residents to the central community garden and the clubhouse. It encourages walking and enjoying the outdoors in a natural setting that not only keeps people in healthy condition but gives them joy and a sense of freedom, a spiritual uplifting. Thus the back-lane gardens become the green backbone that brings the community together and fulfils its function as a communal garden.
The central community garden is at a prominent area, easily accessible by all and highly visible. The high visibility sets an atmosphere of friendliness and creates a safe public space that invites the community to come together. The central community garden and the clubhouse would play host to social events and community activities.
One of the issues with a typical terraced housing is how much the building type is unattached with the outside. They may face a garden or open space but the connection between the spaces is interrupted by the street. The clutter that usually accompanies the car porch further alienates the open spaces from the internal spaces and presents a disconcerting view from the living room. The idea is to re-orientate the living rooms to face the back-lane gardens thus re-connecting the house with the gardens and the outside spaces.
Henceforth more than two thirds of the houses, types A and C are re-oriented to have the living rooms facing the rear where the back-lane gardens are. With this re-orientation, the living room has an unfettered visual and spatial connection with the gardens that not only enlivens the ground floor spaces but increases its apparent size. The gardens are able to be brought right up to the house and into the living room with a direct physical connection. The back-lane gardens become an extension of the backyard garden creating a larger space for outdoor enjoyment and family activities.
By the simple act of turning our backs to the car porch, we are able to return the living room to its prime position. With the status-quo restored, other spaces responded, turning their attention to the living room and the gardens. Full height glass sliding doors at the living room are able to maintain the visual connection between the internal spaces and the garden.
To take advantage of the closeness of the gardens and the view that it provides, the master bedroom is re-oriented to the rear towards the gardens. Full height windows lets in light into the master bedroom and at the same providing visual connection with the gardens.
Less than one third of the houses, type B, has the living room facing the street with the kitchen facing the backyard garden. The ground floor spaces are combined to create one large continuous space that opens up the home and carries the flow to the backyard garden. This retains the traditional connection between the kitchen and the yard play areas at each home.
Each bedroom on the first floor has its own en-suite bathroom and a nook for the wardrobe, a practical layout that free the bedroom space. A large master bedroom fills the width of the home and is provided with a walkthrough wardrobe that leads towards the bathroom.
Wisteria,Bandar Rimbayu
Teluk Panglima Garang, Selangor Darul Ehsan
We are naturally inclined towards natural open spaces and an active lifestyle. In the earlier days when densities were low and cars were few, there were no questions of open green spaces as they were in abundance and streets were safe to play on. Today with several cars to a house-hold and houses jam-packed together, such things have become a distant memory.
The challenge today is not how to recreate or resurrect that memory but how to adapt that lifestyle into modern times and into the current urban context. To recreate the green environment, the available green area are agglomerated and then stretched to form a continuous series of parks that weave their way throughout the township. The weaving would bring the garden to every part of the community and to every home where every resident can access it and enjoy it. Thus the open spaces are democratically shared. The garden also forms the pedestrian link with walkways, jogging paths and cycling lanes. The gardens flow into one another as they jump across the street to create a walkable green linkage between each neighbourhood. This linkage connects the whole development that allows the residents to walk from one end to another and to bring them together, safely in a garden environment. The linear gardens lead to the central garden where people may come together as a community. It is the catalyst that connects and ultimately binds the larger community together.
At the neighbourhood level, this green concept is interpreted as linear back-lane gardens. The back-lane garden is not somewhere far away where you would need to drive there, it is right up to your back yard. It is near and safe that families and children may go out and utilise the park. This would encourage residents to venture outdoors where they may socialize and interact with their community.
The layout is curved following the boundary lines and as it turned onto itself, it created resulting two closed loops. The loops create a visually pleasing environment with natural effect as it eliminates the monotony of long blocks with an ever changing curving view. The streets are planted with trees that soften the environment making it more appealing. The calming effect of tree lined curved streets with road humps create a safer street environment; a place that people would want to be. It would bring people out to the street, reclaiming it for both personal and communal use creating a panorama of community spirit. The curved boundary also forced the blocks to be relatively shorter than the maximum block length. Consequently there are more corner units as the end units are given extra land.
In continuing with the main concept of living in green, we explore the idea of creating a green environment into which we introduce the building. However, it is not just about cobbling together green spaces but to judiciously distribute the green spaces to every home so that it would seem that the green spaces are everywhere. The green spaces are distributed to the back-lane as linear gardens and to accommodate these gardens the ‘back-lanes’ are made wider.
The green spaces are more than just landscaped areas but are articulated as activity zones. The character of the landscaped areas change with the character of the activities within those zones. There are three landscaped zones that begins with each individual home’s backyard garden, progressing to the back-lane neighbourhood garden and to end at the central community garden.
The terraced houses are planned with individual backyard gardens. These are individual private green spaces that expands the indoor spaces as they interact and spills into the backyard garden. The backyard garden provides a safe and private garden where children may play and families may gather that fosters a strong family relationship. The back-lane garden lends its greenery to the back yard gardens, making the whole backyard feeling lusher and bigger.
The back-lane gardens are articulated as linear gardens that run the whole length of the blocks instead of back-lanes. These gardens are right up to each home’s backyard and they become an extension of that backyard where children may go out and play in relative safety as they would be within visual and shouting distance of the house. The intimacy of the gardens encourage the family to go outdoors to exercise, to walk or to just sit under the trees that promotes a healthy living lifestyle; a lifestyle of living in a garden. It is a neighbourhood space where the neighbours may walk-up to each other and spontaneously interact that consequently binds the neighbourhood.
Activities in these public gardens are usually related to and initiated by walking, and so there are pedestrian walkways that run along the back-lane gardens. These pedestrian walkways connect to every back-lane garden and to one another in a network of linked back-lane gardens. This network of linked back-lane gardens eventually lead the residents to the central community garden and the clubhouse. It encourages walking and enjoying the outdoors in a natural setting that not only keeps people in healthy condition but gives them joy and a sense of freedom, a spiritual uplifting. Thus the back-lane gardens become the green backbone that brings the community together and fulfils its function as a communal garden.
The central community garden is at a prominent area, easily accessible by all and highly visible. The high visibility sets an atmosphere of friendliness and creates a safe public space that invites the community to come together. The central community garden and the clubhouse would play host to social events and community activities.
One of the issues with a typical terraced housing is how much the building type is unattached with the outside. They may face a garden or open space but the connection between the spaces is interrupted by the street. The clutter that usually accompanies the car porch further alienates the open spaces from the internal spaces and presents a disconcerting view from the living room. The idea is to re-orientate the living rooms to face the back-lane gardens thus re-connecting the house with the gardens and the outside spaces.
Henceforth more than two thirds of the houses, types A and C are re-oriented to have the living rooms facing the rear where the back-lane gardens are. With this re-orientation, the living room has an unfettered visual and spatial connection with the gardens that not only enlivens the ground floor spaces but increases its apparent size. The gardens are able to be brought right up to the house and into the living room with a direct physical connection. The back-lane gardens become an extension of the backyard garden creating a larger space for outdoor enjoyment and family activities.
By the simple act of turning our backs to the car porch, we are able to return the living room to its prime position. With the status-quo restored, other spaces responded, turning their attention to the living room and the gardens. Full height glass sliding doors at the living room are able to maintain the visual connection between the internal spaces and the garden.
To take advantage of the closeness of the gardens and the view that it provides, the master bedroom is re-oriented to the rear towards the gardens. Full height windows lets in light into the master bedroom and at the same providing visual connection with the gardens.
Less than one third of the houses, type B, has the living room facing the street with the kitchen facing the backyard garden. The ground floor spaces are combined to create one large continuous space that opens up the home and carries the flow to the backyard garden. This retains the traditional connection between the kitchen and the yard play areas at each home.
Each bedroom on the first floor has its own en-suite bathroom and a nook for the wardrobe, a practical layout that free the bedroom space. A large master bedroom fills the width of the home and is provided with a walkthrough wardrobe that leads towards the bathroom.
Wisteria,Bandar Rimbayu
Teluk Panglima Garang, Selangor Darul Ehsan
We are naturally inclined towards natural open spaces and an active lifestyle. In the earlier days when densities were low and cars were few, there were no questions of open green spaces as they were in abundance and streets were safe to play on. Today with several cars to a house-hold and houses jam-packed together, such things have become a distant memory.
The challenge today is not how to recreate or resurrect that memory but how to adapt that lifestyle into modern times and into the current urban context. To recreate the green environment, the available green area are agglomerated and then stretched to form a continuous series of parks that weave their way throughout the township. The weaving would bring the garden to every part of the community and to every home where every resident can access it and enjoy it. Thus the open spaces are democratically shared. The garden also forms the pedestrian link with walkways, jogging paths and cycling lanes. The gardens flow into one another as they jump across the street to create a walkable green linkage between each neighbourhood. This linkage connects the whole development that allows the residents to walk from one end to another and to bring them together, safely in a garden environment. The linear gardens lead to the central garden where people may come together as a community. It is the catalyst that connects and ultimately binds the larger community together.
At the neighbourhood level, this green concept is interpreted as linear back-lane gardens. The back-lane garden is not somewhere far away where you would need to drive there, it is right up to your back yard. It is near and safe that families and children may go out and utilise the park. This would encourage residents to venture outdoors where they may socialize and interact with their community.
The layout is curved following the boundary lines and as it turned onto itself, it created resulting two closed loops. The loops create a visually pleasing environment with natural effect as it eliminates the monotony of long blocks with an ever changing curving view. The streets are planted with trees that soften the environment making it more appealing. The calming effect of tree lined curved streets with road humps create a safer street environment; a place that people would want to be. It would bring people out to the street, reclaiming it for both personal and communal use creating a panorama of community spirit. The curved boundary also forced the blocks to be relatively shorter than the maximum block length. Consequently there are more corner units as the end units are given extra land.
In continuing with the main concept of living in green, we explore the idea of creating a green environment into which we introduce the building. However, it is not just about cobbling together green spaces but to judiciously distribute the green spaces to every home so that it would seem that the green spaces are everywhere. The green spaces are distributed to the back-lane as linear gardens and to accommodate these gardens the ‘back-lanes’ are made wider.
The green spaces are more than just landscaped areas but are articulated as activity zones. The character of the landscaped areas change with the character of the activities within those zones. There are three landscaped zones that begins with each individual home’s backyard garden, progressing to the back-lane neighbourhood garden and to end at the central community garden.
The terraced houses are planned with individual backyard gardens. These are individual private green spaces that expands the indoor spaces as they interact and spills into the backyard garden. The backyard garden provides a safe and private garden where children may play and families may gather that fosters a strong family relationship. The back-lane garden lends its greenery to the back yard gardens, making the whole backyard feeling lusher and bigger.
The back-lane gardens are articulated as linear gardens that run the whole length of the blocks instead of back-lanes. These gardens are right up to each home’s backyard and they become an extension of that backyard where children may go out and play in relative safety as they would be within visual and shouting distance of the house. The intimacy of the gardens encourage the family to go outdoors to exercise, to walk or to just sit under the trees that promotes a healthy living lifestyle; a lifestyle of living in a garden. It is a neighbourhood space where the neighbours may walk-up to each other and spontaneously interact that consequently binds the neighbourhood.
Activities in these public gardens are usually related to and initiated by walking, and so there are pedestrian walkways that run along the back-lane gardens. These pedestrian walkways connect to every back-lane garden and to one another in a network of linked back-lane gardens. This network of linked back-lane gardens eventually lead the residents to the central community garden and the clubhouse. It encourages walking and enjoying the outdoors in a natural setting that not only keeps people in healthy condition but gives them joy and a sense of freedom, a spiritual uplifting. Thus the back-lane gardens become the green backbone that brings the community together and fulfils its function as a communal garden.
The central community garden is at a prominent area, easily accessible by all and highly visible. The high visibility sets an atmosphere of friendliness and creates a safe public space that invites the community to come together. The central community garden and the clubhouse would play host to social events and community activities.
One of the issues with a typical terraced housing is how much the building type is unattached with the outside. They may face a garden or open space but the connection between the spaces is interrupted by the street. The clutter that usually accompanies the car porch further alienates the open spaces from the internal spaces and presents a disconcerting view from the living room. The idea is to re-orientate the living rooms to face the back-lane gardens thus re-connecting the house with the gardens and the outside spaces.
Henceforth more than two thirds of the houses, types A and C are re-oriented to have the living rooms facing the rear where the back-lane gardens are. With this re-orientation, the living room has an unfettered visual and spatial connection with the gardens that not only enlivens the ground floor spaces but increases its apparent size. The gardens are able to be brought right up to the house and into the living room with a direct physical connection. The back-lane gardens become an extension of the backyard garden creating a larger space for outdoor enjoyment and family activities.
By the simple act of turning our backs to the car porch, we are able to return the living room to its prime position. With the status-quo restored, other spaces responded, turning their attention to the living room and the gardens. Full height glass sliding doors at the living room are able to maintain the visual connection between the internal spaces and the garden.
To take advantage of the closeness of the gardens and the view that it provides, the master bedroom is re-oriented to the rear towards the gardens. Full height windows lets in light into the master bedroom and at the same providing visual connection with the gardens.
Less than one third of the houses, type B, has the living room facing the street with the kitchen facing the backyard garden. The ground floor spaces are combined to create one large continuous space that opens up the home and carries the flow to the backyard garden. This retains the traditional connection between the kitchen and the yard play areas at each home.
Each bedroom on the first floor has its own en-suite bathroom and a nook for the wardrobe, a practical layout that free the bedroom space. A large master bedroom fills the width of the home and is provided with a walkthrough wardrobe that leads towards the bathroom.
