Kah Heng Yep - 2002 RAIA & COLORBOND steel Student Biennale Finalist

Project Summary

The idea of the proposed jetty embodies a search for strategies that will make architecture more responsive to and visually representative of its own cultural history. Its physical context gives the architecture a sense of social, cultural and political meaning.

What is noted here is that geological changes can never be predicted. This symbolises one of the random acts that I would like to apply to the Jetty.

The indigenous fishing villages around South-East Asia have been taken as a reference as I develop my design. It symbolises lightweightness that is represented by the ‘poles’ in the proposed Jetty.

The In Between The Market Jetty of Penang, Malaysia

Jury Comments

A contextually appropriate image for Penang, multi-level and ‘propped’ by stick-like supports, this market jetty echoed the traditional riverside fishing villages of Malaysia in an exciting way, and without mimicry. However, the jury did not feel that the project progressed sufficiently from the early concept to serious built form, and failed to investigate the critical interface of land and jetty.