A Holistic Approach for Kuala Lumpur City Centre

October 2019, SCE Project Asia, Studio Architetti Croce, IUAV University of Venice and Venice Architectural Association (VAA) in collaboration with Think City, organized a thematic design workshop. This workshop aims to engage young professionals to re-imagine the future of Kuala Lumpur’s historic centre. There were three categories for the projects in this workshop: Master Planning, Adaptive Reuse and Architectural Conservation. Our team participated in the Architectural Conservation category which we were lucky enough to be selected as the Best Project Award.

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The workshop was themed re-imagining the Kuala Lumpur's historic center into a viable creative and cultural center that preserves existing asset, improve its liveability as well as create attractive places for visitor appeal. The traditional retail street precinct, namely Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman (TAR) which is famous for its fabrics and textiles, urban interventions were proposed to highlight the traditional textile industry and to preserve the traditional shophouses in the precinct while improving the livability of the city. A great opportunity  for us to learn more about urban design.