= LEONG LI JING =
Final Project
Better city of the future
People live, work, and have fun together in many different kinds of communities. A city is a large community, home to many people; a town is a small community; a suburb is a community located outside of a city; and a neighbourhood is a small community that consists of the people and buildings near home. The relationship between the city, town, suburb and neighbourhood is greatly interrelated.
The relationship between the city, town, suburb and neighbourhood is greatly interrelated. cities contain within them the key challenges facing our civilisation. There are two sides of a city, the positive and the negative, the promise of success and the threat of disaster. We may never be able to create a perfect city, but we can certainly make improvements. A great city is a city that is sustainable and liveable.
The best way to understand a city is to explore and investigate a city first hand. Every city is different yet the heart of every city is the people and their activities. In this final project, students will investigate about past, present and future city. With the information collected students are required to propose the future city. The future city should focus on the needs of the people, the facilities, infrastructures, and how it will sustain itself in the future.
Individual
Weekly Digital Journal & Pamphlet
The idea of this project is to understand the component and elements of a city and what makes a better future city. This final project is divided into two parts. Part A is an individual component to investigate and understand the content related to “city” and the “built environment” plus to propose a better future city by preparing a pamphlet.
As the planner of the “X” City you are required to produce a pamphlet to promote the new city development and to solve current issues assigned to you. You need to understand what a “city” is, its development and history, components and elements of a city. You will be assigned to ONE of the two current issues that you need to consider in your new city proposal;
a. Disaster Resilience City (i.e : earthquake, tsunami, typhoon, etc)
b. Migrant and Refugees
The investigation, collection of data, case study information, mind maps and analysis, draft sketches, exploration and planning will be submitted as a weekly digital journal on E-portfolio as evidence to show that you did your research and to support your ideas. You may use different medium to showcase your research and compilation.
Weekly Digital Journal
Students are required to do investigation on ancient cities, present cities and future cities. Collect data that will help you to understand about the components and elements of a city. From these case studies, you will have a better insight on how to plan your new city.
Investigate and collect data and understand the type of current issue assigned to you. You will then design a city for that particular environment and type of location therefore you need to understand the situation of your site. Look into documents, article, guideline and issues regarding planning a better future city.
Finally after doing a comprehensive investigation on the items above, you are required to produce a brief proposal for the “X” city through diagrams, existing images, some sketches and illustration. As an exercise the propose city is a small size city. The size of the proposed new city should be smaller than Subang Jaya (70 km2). Therefore the new propose city should be between 30 - 50 km2 . The population is between 100,000 – 250,000. (The population of Subang Jaya is about 710, 000).
When planning for the city, students are required to consider and include the followings;
i. The geometric shape, form, pattern, hierarchy, system and structure of the city.
ii. The aim of the city, the green approach, new waste management, new technology, business plan, new initiatives etc.
iii. The main focus of the city; such as the square, garden, monuments, town hall, pavilion, civic building, axis and vistas.
iv. The zoning of the city. (government buildings, business area, commercial areas, recreational areas, education areas, religious and cultures areas, hospitals, services area, industrial area, residential, community area, port and shipping area, forest and green areas, agriculture area, hospitality and tourism etc)
v. The people, population, social issues, activities, food distribution, crime, security, education, culture and religion.
Pamphlet
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Group
Model Representation
In a group, students will further enhance the selected proposal of the “X” city from the individual presentation. Students will work to produce a physical model of the selected city and 2 nos of A2 board presentation to explain further about the selected city.
The City Model Requirements
a. The size of the model should not exceed A2 size board as the base. The height should not exceed 600mm. There is no minimum size.
b. Students are required to use recyclable materials to make the model. It would be great if students could use daily items as model material such as bottle caps, straws etc. Less material is better but with different colour and sizes. Do get advice from lecturers regarding the scale, colour and materials for the model. However students are encouraged to look for inspiration first.
c. Orepare a casing for the model for storage purposes and safety during construction and exhibition.
d. Label model with group members name, lecturer’s name, batch and Taylor’s University logo. (Digitally prepared)
e. Students will be given 5-10 minutes to give a verbal presentation about their city as a group.
A2 Presentation Board Requirements.
a. Students may use any type of presentation boards, maximum 2 A2 boards.
b. Students may produce it digitally or by hand or as a collage. The information must be clearly presented, presentable and information must be well structured. Drawing must be to scale and label accordingly.
c. The presentation board should contain the information as stated above in the task and guideline information
In this final project, we are required to form a group of 11 members in total. My group mates are inluded Adele Lu Khai Syn (group leader), Chung How Cyong, Ong Von Wan, Shum Li Sze, Danica Gan Jia En, Dana Kan Jia Torng, Yip Xiaojung, Wong Yun Teng, Wong Mei Xin, Sii Siaw Hua and me.
The proposal selected for our group was Li Sze's, named Blue Sapphire, which is a disaster resilence future city. We had some discussion to gather our ideas to improve this city. After that, we went to prepare the materials together and start our city model making. We had a schedule for this city model making which fall on every Saturday and Tuesday. We also had extra meeting when it come near to presentation day. Our A2 presentation board are all hand written and hand drawn.
Based on the Taylor's Graduate Capabilities that were to be harnessed from this assignment, I managed to practice discipline specific knowledge, thinking and problem solving skills, interpersonal skills, intrapersonal skills and communication skills.
DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE
I able to understand the issue given and able to plan the future city as required. I also learnt a lot of knowledge in the making of city model.
THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS
I able to think and solve the problems occur throughout the process of planning and making the city modelling as it was all handmade.
INTRAPERSONAL SKILLS
I able to analyse and evaluate the different development of the built environment by looking at the natural topography, landscape, space, building and infrastructure
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
I understood the importance of teamwork and I had learnt much about a city throughout this project from my group mates.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
I have learnt to communicate better throughout this project to have a better working environment and better communication among ourselves.