Abstract

With the stages completion of the office buildings at the Government Office Precincts, staff have been relocating themselves from the previous office complex in Kuala Lumpur to Putrajaya and tend to let themselves as full time Putrajaya residents. Thus, with the careful planning of having sufficient housing units to cater the influx Government staff, Precinct 9 is among the few pioneer sections of Putrajaya’s new Malaysia Federal Government Administrative Center to reside such an important administrators of the nations. Specially designed high rise apartment and link houses been formulated to cater the need of the Government staff with the millennium concept of garden city’s ‘live-work’ environment. The completion of the terrace double storey garden houses with the nation’s first fenceless housing concept create a unique identity to this new millennium planned community. The study will just simply to study the impact of the designed houses that can be as a model where we think that the initiative of the Malaysian Federal Government in creating the new concept of borderless housing with such a high class accommodation just to cater their Government servants.

Highlights

  • When more Government office buildings are ready and being occupied by the staff, the Federal Government to ensure enough housing to cater for the workers

  • The initial conclusion is that in general the residents of the occupant of this double storey garden terrace link Government housing feel very satisfy with the harmonize environment within their neighborhood

  • From the survey, there are no negative comments on the interior aspects of the house and I think the designers/architects had done a superb design in implementing the new millennium community that start very well from outside to the inside

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Summary

Putrajaya – The New Nation Capital

Putrajaya is the new administrative Center of the Federal Government of Malaysia. Located strategically within the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC), Putrajaya considered Malaysia’s first Intelligent Garden City. It is a model city and as the heart of the nation and become an attractive place to live and work. Located 25 km south of Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya was selected in 1993 from various sites and in 1996 formally declared as the Federal Government Administrative Center and named after the nation’s first Prime Minister. The Core Area is the Putrajaya’s main structure and expresses the formal identity for Putrajaya. Residential living in Putrajaya offers new experience where nature and technology will become one in harmony for the benefit of the communities. The master plan (Figure 2) shows that the master plan is designed along an axial tangent which runs from the northeast to southeast taking full advantage of the natural surroundings

Scope of Study
Introduction
Public amenities facilities
Differences compared to the occupants previous residence
Front porch area architectural design issues
Kitchen area
Initial suggestion to cater on the kitchen wetness
Preliminary Conclusion
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