Re-examining Community Architecture: Interview on Low Joo Yin's Street Market at Kampung Kerinchi

Send us Fan MailFind here in this refreshing podcast interview, Low Joo Yin's related account, both personal and objective, providing the listener clues to how she interpreted a "client" which at the outset is uncertain as the "local authority", when a street market has to do with the community, it's social-cultural identity and basic needs for household items and food.  As Joo Yin delved further into the project, she discovered it was not just to "sort out" the street market of it's haphazardness, dirtiness, lack of facilities in general and problems of traffic congestion and flow. She kept on visiting the site and found out what people really need, who the real clients are which led her wanting to design for the people and focused on seeing how people would use her design. Joo Yin stated that a small project or seemingly lack of a large building does not necessarily mean lack of complexities. The system thinking that designer explored in such a project, in terms of logistical flows of three conceptual frameworks of business, transportation and social-cultural aspects in the urban context, challenged her immensely as a graduating architect, and provided a sense of philosophical direction for her approach in her working life later. The case study of Joo Yin's design thesis, in the 2018-2019 batch, proved how the architect needed to command urban design problems in a very technically-driven circumstance, yet be designing for the community, designing with empathy. See the drawings here:  https://designthesis.wordpress.com/2020/07/11/low-joo-yins-street-market-at-kampung-kerinchi/Support the showDo subscribe for premium content and special features which will help to support and sustain Talk Architecture podcast on a more in-depth explanation on design thesis and processes. These special commentaries and ‘how to’ explanations are valuable insights and knowledge not found elsewhere!