The Arc
Architect: Garis Architects
Location: Bandar Rimbayu, Malaysia
Completed: 2014
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The Arc provides shelter for community activities - the place for regular living amenity, social and recreational activities, communal and sports events. Simultaneously, it responds to the environment, particularly in addressing the sunlight, heat, humidity and rain of the tropical climate. The roof solution responds to the desire to keep itself and the space below cool by sustainable means: insulating with soil and greenery.
The landmark does not need to be a symbolic object to be looked at, but should fundamentally serve the basic communal functions and as a place for human experience and encounter. This is the basic principle adopted in the design conceptualization. Its name, The Arc, is derived from the underlying plan shape of an arc embracing the communal green open space.
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