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Theory of Architecture and Urbanism(ARC2224)(ARC61303)Scale and proportion

"The most beautiful and pleasant cities which survive in the world today have all been conceived with buildings of between two and five floors," he wrote in "Architecture: Choice or Fate," his influential book on the development of human-scale cities. "There is no ecologically defensible justification for the erection of utilitarian skyscrapers; they are built for speculation, short-term gain or out of pretentiousness.

"The universal limitation of building heights to between two and five stories "The universal limitation of building heights to between two and five stories would both protect historic centers threatened with overdevelopment and at the same time encourage the redevelopment of the suburbs. Instead of inflating the cost of buildings in the center, such a limitation would contribute to an increase in property values in those areas that remain arbitrarily undervalued."

Leon Krier

A. Bungalow

A.

B. Shops

Different design and scale of building serve different purpose but not same design in different scale to different amount of people and its purpose.

B.

C.

D.

C. Shops D. SJK (T) Bangsar

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Stack ventilation and airwellPitched roof vs Flat roof

Building too depending on fossil fuel

Pitched roof absorb lesser heat with the smaller exposure area compared to the flat roof that mostlyfound on site.

Heigh ceiling

Low carbon footprint material

Modern buildings are too much depending onfossil fuel making the building unable to self-sustain without them.

Most of the buildings there such as the shops and office buildings are high in energy consumption, mechanical ventilation such as air conditioner are often used to cool down the building hence the electric bill costly as the building survive based mostly on fossil fuel.

Passive design such as utilizing stack ventilation, cross ventilation, glazing, material choice with low embodied energy and low carbon footprint will be most suitable to achieve sustainability.

Sustainability / Economic

Public buildings and private buildings are to be within walking distance less than 80 acres so that the use of public transport can be minimize and walk to different destination generalize healthy lifestyle is more convenient.

Semi-Private

PublicPrivate

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Type of Building on site. Waiting spot on site. Circulation and road direction.

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Social issue are existed due to vertical sprawl and overdeveloped cities, many architects and urban planner are ignoring this and less concern about this issue. Even though the site doesn’t have the issue of overdevelopment but traffic jams issue still often happened on site.

Pollution can happen because of large amount of toxic gases such as carbon monoxide has been produced by many cars and motorcycles when they’re waiting and passing around there actually affect those who live they’re waiting and passing around there actually affect those who live nearby.