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Group Design Project
Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur
Kiosk Cycle Racks Sustainable
Concrete Glass Polycarbonate sheets.
Go-green E-bike
Kiosk Sustainable

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# Footprintless Mechanism

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i-Five © yongqi

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▲i-Five © yongqi

Text description. i-Five is a retail kiosk that provides bicycle rental services to the public. With the strategic location of Brickfield, we assume that it will highly potential to have an integration with the project Riveria City along the Klang River. There will have an area developed to become botanical gardens in order to promote urban elegance as well as a healthy lifestyle. In addition, the location of the kiosk (in front of the Lotus Hotel) will attract many tourists to have a bicycle tour around the heritage area in Little India.

The simple curved unit combines the space-saving quality of hanging systems with a much easier to maneuver roll-in-place. It can also save pedestrian mobility space along streets and sidewalks. The construction materials of the bicycle hanging rack including recycled steel and polycarbonate sheets. The goal of using these lightweight materials is to make them easy to transport and assemble. Eventually, it will reduce the carbon footprint in the city.

Key/Location Plan © yongqi

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▲Key/Location Plan © yongqi

Site Plan © yongqi

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▲Site Plan © yongqi

Brickfield Little India © yongqi

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▲Brickfield Little India © AsiaWebDirect

Old-style building

Modern high rise building

Brickfield Little India © AsiaWebDirect

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▲Brickfield Little India © AsiaWebDirect

Jalan Rakyat

Water fountain

Jalan Tun Sambanthan

Design Development © yongqi

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▲Design Development © yongqi

The buildings in Brickfields are mostly traditional buildings that were designed in boxy form and built with heavy construction materials. In order to create transformation in terms of design form, the retail kiosk is intentionally designed to be a curved structure. The form development are explained as below:

A water fountain which on the roundabout is the intersection point between the old-style building and modern high rise building, as well as the intersection for the circulation of the public and tourists.

The circulation along the Jalan Tun Sambanthan form a curvilinear pattern, while the iconic water fountain becomes the center point of road to create a strong connection between the two distinctive areas.

A cylindrical volume is extruded in the center, and extended along the route with an elegant l linear pattern. The entire volume creates a program that can maximize the relationship with the site,

The vertical skin of the volume bended into a curve envelope,create a prominence profile on the side. The idea is derived from the water fountain which has an elegant and curvy shape that is distinct from the surrounding structure.

Bike Arc © yongqi

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▲Bike Arc © yongqi

Bike Arc. The arc design is inspired from the bike arc, which protects bicycles from UV rays, rain and snow and transforms parked bikes into works of art. Roll in the bike racks are designed for rolling, not lifting. The right-hand side of each rack has an unobstructed wheel-sized opening for riders to roll their bikes into and up the half arc. Lock up cyclists can use u-locks, cables and other locking devices to secure their front wheels, back wheels, frames and helmets, and can easily use multiple locks to protect various parts of their bikes from theft.

Design bike arc’s designs transform parked bicycles into works of art and create spaces that are vibrant, fun and aesthetically pleasing for both cyclists and non-cyclists alike. Material recycled steel bike racks. All products are galvanized with powder coating available at additional costs. Covers are white multi-walled polycarbonate sheets made by polygonal.

Bikes' Arrangement System © yongqi

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▲Bikes' Arrangement System © yongqi

The bike rack of the kiosk is using roll-in-place system instead of lifting system. All the bicycles are arranged in intermeshed system so that all the bicycles are organized into their own individual parking spaces with sufficient room to breathe.

Mechanism © yongqi

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▲Mechanism © yongqi

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Location Strategy © yongqi

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▲Location Strategy © yongqi

i-Five creates a new network of streets that connects the different neighborhoods in the area to the surrounding area. All modes of traffic are represented in the new streets.

Interaction

The retail kiosk is located nearby the roundabout, which is the intersection point between the old era building and modern high rise building. It expresses the transformation of building designs throughout the decades.

Integration

The kiosk is surrounded with various types of heritage buildings, making the area crowded with tourists. Thus we propose cycle lane as well as provide bicycle rental services for the public and tourists.

Future Development

The kiosk is located nearby the Klang River which only requires 5 minutes cycling distance. On the coming days this area will have integration with the KL Riveria City Project to develop the area with botanical gardens and urban landscaping.

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▲Location Strategy © yongqi

Strategy © yongqi

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I-Five creates an internal network of streets as Brickfields as a historical tourism area，tourist could having a slow pace on their journey while enjoying the exotic atmosphere and buildings instead of seating in a fast-moving car or bus. i-Five could Integrate through traffic, provide alternate options to the traffic user which prioritizes pedestrians and bicycles. i-Five ideally to have few station to connect important places and destinations. Meanwhile, i-Five define zones and create legibility which provided an easier tour to tourist.