Retails inside Central Market is being present with pastiche architecture structures, hindering users from the outside and inside, blocking natural lighting into the building, and clustered air ventilation.

Design Strategies

Design Strategies - To create different "Arcade" zones to allow users to circulate the building, bringing art down to the public where users could potentially experience and creating inspirations to local artists.

Historical Memory Downlane

River Klang is a river that flows through Kuala Lumpur and Selangor in Malaysia and eventually flows into the Straits of Malacca. One of the sought-after tourist spots in Kuala Lumpur where the historical Central Market is situated beside it. However, greeneries are disappearing, covering the landscape with more concrete than ever, buildings are demolished for unnecessary purposes, and the locals are slowly being flooded over by tourists.

Human Activities & Cultural Events

Pasar Seni is a small town where Arts are being promoted by the government organization, Cendena. Local artists, street food stalls, cultural events, festivities, and diversity of races and cultures are what keep the Malaysia essence today.

Gathered inspirations and ideas of the past, interventions are made. Allowing to maneuver and identify the key aspect of what to retain and what not to, while preserving the historical essence of the Central Market.

In front of the Central Market and facing the main street (Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lok), where once a commercialized plaza, turned into a vehicle car-park area in the 90s, caused heavy traffic and an eye-sore of open concrete space. However, given the circumstances, it is a very important node point and the main entrance into Central Market. Thus, while bringing back the old glory of this space, a sunken garden plaza is proposed in front of the Central Market. Where existing festivities can be held and given the usage of space back to the locals.