i was impressed to find out that the Penang Global City Centre's idea of creating an urban city within a city (Penang, Malaysia) was actually the product of Asymptote Architects. hmm coming from penang myself i feel rather shameful to have only found out now. . . .anyhoo. . . .i was looking through the project and it seems pretty impressive that they have implemented various sustainable features to deal with the ecological situation of the development that was going to take up a a big space of green land on the island. the "Karbon 0" approach is then taken one step further and assimilated with form to create architecture that blends with the natural surroundings. the design achieves its elegance and stature through the simultaneous embrace of natural landscapes and contemporary urbanism. just wanted to share a little something as i would like to explore the shapes and design approach portrayed in this design for the airport terminal im working on now. . . .
i noticed the layout of the runways having similar asymptote bay patterns similar to the PGCC exterior look. . . .hence i'll refer to the PGCC and these bay shapes found on the existing airport runway to dictate the exterior of the proposed airport terminal.
picture credits : http://www.dezeen.com/2007/09/21/penang-global-city-center-by-asymptote/#more-5226
sourced on the 5th of May 2010
site plan sourced from BAC 2009 master plan
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