Z.S ARCHITECTURE

Transformative Design is an integrative process seeking to create desirable and sustainable changes in behavior and form. Every architectural design should resonate with its specific site and culture, whereby it engages the pressing contemporary issues and their impact on human experience. Transformative Design is a user-centered design which starts from the perspective of the end user. It’s not just about learning how users currently experience the system or how they want to experience the system, but also co-creating with them the designed solutions.

 

Civic Narrative married with Transformative Design tells a progressive story about the place and its history. The Visitor Interpretive Centre integrates Civic Narrative with Transformative Design by maintaining the pervading spirit of a place and its distinctive atmosphere, the architecture enlightens the visitors and revives the sense of community which was once so alive at the site few decades ago. According to John Pawson, “Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes it’s about retuning what's already there.”

“All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.” by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Nature Appreciation Centre, located by a polluted mangrove swamp caused by the unthoughtful human acts, the architecture aims to create awareness and input positive values into people, a journey that spaces transform, allowing visitors to embrace the wonders of nature, enhancing their sense of appreciation towards it, then finally reveal their acts which they had brought upon nature itself. Transformative Architecture informs and brings hope for change for the people and the environment, changing the context from its weaknesses into its strength by maximizing its full potential.

Transformative Design has become a guiding principle in my design, it has the power to facilitate an enhanced, healthier experience for the human beings that occupy the built environment.  It enriches the individual relationship towards the built environment in terms of awareness and understanding, hence, bringing the community together to engage the issues and creating solutions for the particular site. Stephen Gardiner once said, “Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.”