The construction industry is one of Malaysia's biggest driving factor in terms of GDP Growth, based on data from department of statistics Malaysia, in 2015, it is recorded of a growth of 14% increases every year.
However as our country develop, what happens to our tradition and historical significance?
Have you ever been in a town where it feels the same like any other? The same shop lot designs, the same wide roads prioritizing vehicles, tall office buildings which is out of place.
Located in Kampong Bharu, Kuala Lumpur, Visual World is a NEW Cinematic Experience Centre which aims to bridge the stories from the past, the change of the present and the possibilities of the future. An urban catalyst which reintroduces Kampong Bharu.
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The proposed site has became somewhere without historical trajectory that embed the place with "meaning" and "identity", focusing solely on economic growth without paying homage to the values of the past becoming a "non-place" which adds no value to the historically prominent identity of Kampong Bharu.
The current function of Cinemas are privatized and outdated, the architecture portrays a generic & homogenic appearance focusing solely on enclosed spaces. Visual World -Cinematic Experience Centre changes the public's stigma on cinema's only being within shopping malls through possibilities of exterior surfaces becoming screens, voids that changes visual perceptions, looking in and out will not be the same.
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Visual World by Wilson Tan Xern Ee in Malaysia won the WA Award Cycle 34. Please find below the WA Award poster for this project.
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