Active Design Strategies in Malaysian Commercial & Institutional Buildings: A Review | ARK 805 Dissertation
CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
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Introduction The active design strategies application in Malaysian institution and commercial
architecture is significantly visible but does it work? Does local architects originally thought about implementing these strategies into their design? This chapter is divided into two main parts. The first part revealed the observations
and records of the existing evidence of the physical activity-encouraging elements present in the chosen case studies and analysed the results achieved from the data collected. The second part is the discussion of the analysed findings, in relation to the objectives of this study.
4.2
Case Study I: Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying (FSPU), Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Puncak Alam campus.
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Building site background & policies.
The Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying (FSPU) of Universiti Teknologi MARA is an institutional building located at the UiTM Puncak Alam campus, in Kuala Selangor. The new faculty was fully constructed and started operating in 2015.
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