HIGHRISE: VERTICAL ART CAMPUS

Art enables us to experience the past, see the present and anticipate the future. 

The proposed composition is an art collage owned by the client, Mia which is a non-profit making organization. The site is located in the intersection of the crossroad of Jalan Imbi and Jalan Sultan Ismail. It is a vertical university that consists of small commercial scale, office compartment, teaching facilities as well as the residential to the students. This project attempts to capture the essence of pattern of addition and transformation. It will become a point for place for students whom wish to evolve their love of art, artists, and art lovers, crafters, to come together, to develop and share their work and to stay in touch and move as the tool to Mia’s mission. The Institute makes every effort to integrate IT knowledge and multi-ethnic cultural values into its training programs to enhance the scope of learning and creative quality of the students through the quality of the learning environment. It is the Mia’s mission to provide the most conducive learning environment for an affordable and quality education in the field of arts and design. It is then also the building’s mission to be accomplished in the given site.

Context is seen as an enormous source for enrichment in the design of any project which makes it own unique originality .It is inspired from the spirit of the place and the atmosphere of the region. As in the site given, it shows a specified area which seems to be in the middle of a contradict environment on either site. It stands sandwiched between an area along the place with a strong symbol of strong closure and advanced consumption oriented culture and the old developed low-rise commercial. The building is intended to create a diversified landmark to the respecting contradict context which expresses good taste of culture and welcome the warmth of art to be breed in the building. Sharing a part of the building activity with the public, the composition suggest to invite people into an area where people don’t usually pass by due to the absent of communication. The openness of the lower portion of the building will allow for a wide range of visitors (art lovers, artist, and tourist) and students to traverse around. The art college will serve as a new attraction which continues giving new impulse to the city’s infrastructure. School structure should be more than just class room. It should incorporate multipurpose corridors or atrium where communication can flourish naturally. To understand the state of mind of people whom experience the inner architecture primarily the students is essential in designing a conducive educational environment.

 The overall internal planning of the building have been guided and inspired from the concept of human brain, the best god’s creation and the most defined of intellectual system. Brain is the most amazing self-organized system designed by god. Magnificently, this most amazing and complex creation has yet been designed to be organized by two different self admin parts which is the right and left brain. Each of this brain plays different role in organizing human’s intellect.Our brains use both of these sides, mixing and matching each side’s abilities for a fully-functional human brain but typically,they are both contradict to each other as in table:

Allowing variety of experiences as one traverse in  the brain:
Left brain	Right brain
Factual, reasoning , serious and problem solving moods	Playful mode and character-amusement
keep students focused and alert	Dramatic expression (exaggerated with the surrounding)
Formal form of education: class rooms, labs.	Informal form of education: studios, multipurpose corridors or Outdoor amphitheatre?
Leads to attention of details.	Evolve creativity
Analyze data	Synthesize data
Method: learning by reading	Learning by doing
Helped by lower ceiling height-focus	High ceiling height

"mentally literate" –when  you come to understand your brain, and acquire techniques for learning.

‘Concept and matter have to grapple one with another’.
Through out the concept understanding, it applies implementation on the proposed composition of the art college which requires both potions as in the brain. As the brain , as school of art require both of those needs, the needs of a serious understanding and wild creative imagination. Both of these working together will than produce an impressive result as in mia’s aim.

The vertical art university

The university plaza interior

The open gallery design of the university