Concept of Botanica CT, Balik Pulau

CONCEPT

BOTANICA.CT intend to be an integrated and self-sustainable garden township where green is the theme. A complete garden community that offers healthy lifestyle, able to enjoy the peace of mind and unmatched quality of life. In order to translate the concept onto the ground, development team had looked on 3 principles : social, environment, and spiritual.

The location of Botanica CT

PRINCIPLE 1 : SOCIAL

Social can be defined as “…how individuals, communities and societies live with each other and set out to achieve the objectives of development models, which they have chosen for themselves taking also into account the physical boundaries of their places and planet earth as a whole…”

(Source: Social Sustainability Linking Research to Policy and Practice, 2009)

For my understanding, social sustainability is about:

1. creating and maintaining quality of life for people
2. able define development to reflect its underlying culture, values and goals
3. meet the needs of current generations and able support the ability of future generations
4. able provide and sustain an environment that people can meet, encourage participation of people to gather and know to each other
5. improve health from physical and mental aspect
6. provide essential services and public facilities

PRINCIPLE 2 : ENVIRONMENT

Environment refer to the conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. It could be a natural world, a whole or particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity.

When we talked about environment, 1st thing comes into my mind is the green environment. A healthy environment consisting of mainly trees as the main elements supported by others elements such as sun for lighting and air flow for breathing. These elements are very critical and many others are linked together that they made the area become better not just physically, but also giving a different feel to the people.

PRINCIPLE 3 : SPIRITUAL

Spiritual can be defined as the quality of one’s sensitivity to the things that cannot be directly perceived by our senses but those things can be inferred by our observations. For example, like love, feeling pleasant, peace and so on.

It is after all basic human values that determine social interactions and cohesion. It covers how we interact with the others in various social and economic contexts. Spiritual values are not only relevant to the individual. There is a collective spiritual dimension to a community or society, just like a soul in many bodies.

(Source: http://spirituality4now.blogspot.com/2010/02/meaning-of-spirituality.html)

What is Concept Plan? What is Layout Plan ?

WHAT IS CONCEPT? 

Concept has a theme. And it many depends on location. 

If the site is located at somewhere highland,  we can have a development of villa for residential units. Residents can enjoy lush tropical landscape that soothe and rejuvenate. A place where they discover absolute peace of mind and an unmatched quality of life.a higher quality of life. A sense of back to nature. 

The name express the concept. 

For example, water based, mountain based, highland based, a resort lifestyle housing, lakeside terrace and etc. When you heard water based concept, what are the things first comes to your mind? Near to sea or lake, we can enjoy the wind sweep on your face gently or listened to the pleasantly sea breeze ~ Can see a wonderful seaside or lakeside scene, revel in the beautiful ambiance bring by the water features. 

 WHAT IS CONCEPT PLAN?

A concept plan show us how one land use is connected to other land uses. They are only few different sizes of bubble diagram and use some broad colors to present the information. It can able to show the interaction and movement of people and the traffic in draft method.

ZONING ≠ LAND USE

Zoning is telling us the types of uses on the land. 

E.g. Lot A had zoned as residential area. 

Land use is showing what you see on the ground. 

E.g. From the land use plan, we able to know what are the size of site area, and its circulation on the ground. For example, a total area 5 acres had zoned as residential area (we called this zoning). Within this 5 acres, 1 acre is used for park (land use for recreational area), 3 acres are used for terraced houses (land use for residential area) and the last 1 acre is used for construction of roads and pedestrian walkways and other public facilities (land use for public amenities), how the roads connect the terraced houses to the recreational area and public services (show the circulation).

Layout Plan is more to details and technical.

E.g. From the Land Use Plan, we know where the roads are located. In Layout Plan, the width and sizes   of road are going to point out. Different hierarchy of road has their own different dimensions. Layout Plan include more technical aspects like building dimension, setback of building, built up area, types of components and etc.

That's some information I gained from Mr. JJ lecture on today. Hope it is useful for you all. 

Copyright from Mr. JJ, I hope I copy it right..  XD

Go g0 gO ~ Site Visit-i.n.g.

Project 1 is on going~

Each community should has its own specific concept before they been draw into plans. They can be integrated community, garden city, self-sustainable community, peaceful oasis, sea breeze etc...

At the last night, we had chosen few sites for Project 1. 

a) Ashley Green, Bukit Gambier 

b) Sierra Vista, Bukit Jambul

c) Botanica CT, Balik Pulau

d) Sunway Bukit Gambier. 

Today morning, we had pay a visit to Sierra Vista & Botanica CT~

Sierra Vista is a residential area where located in Bukit Jambul. Due to today is weekend, the security is not allow us to enter the residential area, as our presence within area might create inconvenience and harassment to the local residents. 

The concept of Sierra Vista is a gated community. In the front and side of the Sierra Vista can see a mini waterfall.  However, this site had rejected as it only focus on the residential. the aspects to be touched are too small. 

Botanica CT, Balik Pulau

The next alternative is Botanica CT, Balik Pulau. The concept of Botanica CT is self-sustainable garden community where green is the theme. The site is 300 acres and it is partly completed. This site is accepted for this project.

That's all for today.. 

Hold on~  waiting for next post~ telling you more stories~~  I am beat.. T__T

1st Day Coming ~

I AM FINAL YEAR STUDENT, SUPER SENIOR !!!

Happy new semester and Happy Studio 300~

Ha, the last time I opened my blog is two years ago. Wow, time's flying~  Now I finished training, come to 3rd year, another new challenge is waiting for me. 

What I want to achieve in this new sem? Good question. Inspiring me what's my new target for this sem. Target as a direction is important. It boost up our spirit to pursue something, push yourself to another stage. If not, Man will just stand on same place and never move on. 

Compare yourself with yourself. Not with others. 

Comparing what we have to what other people have can really kill motivation. There are always people ahead of us. So focus on you. Focus on your results. And how we can and have improved them.

Reviewing results is important. We can see where have gone wrong in the past to avoid similar missteps further on. But it’s also important because it’s a great motivator to see how much we have improved and how far we have achieved. We will pleasantly surprised when we do such a review.