| Summary: | On a 25 acres (10 ha) site in Jalan Datin Halimah, Johor Bahru, Sunway College in join venture with Yayasan Pelajaran Johor intend to establish a Sub-College Campus with foreseeable composition of an academic centre with administrative, residential and recreational facilities. This will accomodate, a first intake of 800 students in 1993 and lead to a total staff and student population in excess of 1200 in 1994. In formulating the approach for the physical development of the college campus, it was first to identify the prevailing constraints for the final analysis it is these considerations that wll dictate the possible framework and form of development. The Sunway College which had several well established link with reputable foreign universities and courses of proven value over the years. These schools initially provide a technical and professional courses for the students. In terms of the physical development, this college campus be a very different matter from the creation of an intirely new College. Here one of the main considerations will be on how the inter relation between teaching facilities and the quality of environment created is to be conducive for the purpose of learning and teaching. But this is one of the many considerations that have been incorporated in the planning for a satisfactory college. The objective of this report then is to describe the proposed plan for the development of the college campus and in the process attempts to explain the rationale behind it. Thus this repot will also give an account of the planning process involved, the constraints and the principles applied to the problem as well as the possibilities and limitation of the solutions. The primary objective of this planning exercise is to provide the college campus with the structure or framework within which growth and change can occur while maintaining coherence and completeness at each stage of development. It is generally agreed that physically the college campus should project the identity of functioning as a unit that its environment reflect the academic and social patterns adopted for the College Community. On this premise, the resultant college campus varied as the functions of different college. Nevertheless, what ever the concepts of college campus forms the criteria determining the patern of development can be identify as common. The physical make up of the campus consist mainly of its academic, administration, residential and recreational facilities. The relationship between these physical component as generated by the academic and social patterns envisaged when adopted to the site determine the basis college campus form. Among the other factors that affect the general form of the college is the consideration of growth and change which is inherant feature of faculty development. The role of the college campus is such that it cannot remain static. The college campus is expected to adjust itself corresponding to the progressive changes of academic and social demands. The form of development must therefore be able to provide opportunity for maximum change of use in the future while maintaining coherence and sense of completeness at each stage of development. Environmental considerations are accepted as a determinant of college development. Quality in the environment is relative and can only be assessed in it appropriateness in creating within the community the kind of responses that compliments the academic and social goals of college campus. The college involved when given the human dimensions of space, scale, character, style, colour and texture constitute the physical environment. This considerations for the environment desired incorporated in the determination of college development. In conceptual approach in design, the primary concern was to evaluate alternative grouping and structuring of the major elements of the college campus : #academic zone, #administration; #residential, #recreational. The
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