DESA1002 'Nine Quarter City' - <Nik Zulhazmi Bin Nik Fuaad>

Abstract

My individual block is located in Jerusalem. At the beginning of the semester I decided to design a motorcycle workshop which would provide necessary services to nearby Jerusalem people. It is also essential as motorcycle is one of the main transportation in Jerusalem. My design in the first place consists of several boxes which were dull and uninteresting. My tutor however advised me to ‘think outside the box’ and try to loosen up and play around with the design. Well, thanks to her, my mind has now opened to a whole lot of new ideas. From there I begin to work continuously with that design and developed several functions for the building. Apart from the motorcycle workshop, there is also a café, a place to dine in which is located on the ground floor adjacent to the workshop but separated by a courtyard. On the second floor there is a multi-purpose hall which is owned by the public and can be used for different kinds of functions and programs. There are also several apartment houses on the 2nd floor as well as on the whole 3rd floor which offer permanent and temporary accommodations. The building uses white limestone as a cladding materials and there’s an extensive usage of glasses which allows inhabitants on the outside to recognize the different functions of the building. However, the usage is minimal on the apartment houses in order to protect the privacy of the occupants. In addititon, there are also public toilets located on the 2nd floor and verandah for the apartment residents located on the 2nd and 3rd floor. The 3rd floor verandah provides large open space which can be used as a place for private parties, playground or a scenic place to hang out and enjoy the picturesque panorama of Jerusalem. Nevertheless in the end the design kind of failed in terms of bringing forward the main function which is the motorcycle workshop and emerged more as a multi-functional edifice. I realized that I should have developed the motorcycle workshop more and present a more vibrant motorcycle workshop which is what it had been in the first place.