Part 1: Identifying 5 Elements

 

We are required to select a city and identify the 5 elements in the city with 5 A4 size illustrated diagrams of the city. The site that I have chosen is Setapak.

 

• paths, the streets, sidewalks, trails, and other channels in which people travel;

• edges, perceived boundaries such as walls, buildings, and shorelines;

• districts, relatively large sections of the city distinguished by some identity or character;

• nodes, focal points, intersections or loci;

• landmarks, readily identifiable objects which serve as external reference points

 

 

Part 2: Cognitive Mapping

 

We are required to create cognitive mapping of selected significant urban spaces in the city of KL to understand peoples’ perception and spatial behaviour in cities today with 2000 words illustrated essay and A3 size cognitive mapping of selected urban spaces. 

 

 

Using the cognitive maps students are required to present a critical understanding of emerging contemporary urbanism in KL city spaces (in relations to Kevin Lynch notions of imageability and how it influences people’s perception of the city. Mapping should contain: human facets (memory, identity etc ), spatial and temporal dynamics (traffic, people’s paths, barriers, etc.), architecture (stairs, benches, trees, etc.), microstructures (texture, material).

 

By completing this project, I have learnt to analyse architecture and urban forms in relation to relevant architectural theories as well as critiquing the relationship between architecture and its social, cultural and intellectual context. Moreover, I am also be able to produce, orally and in writing, a critical interpretation of architecture and urbanism in relation to relevant theories within the contemporary discourse of architecture.