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Putrajaya sasaran FolkStudio

Oleh ISMA ISMAIL
isma@hmetro.com.my
2010/01/17

  BERMASALAH mencari destinasi atau lokasi? Tentunya ramai yang mengalami masalah itu akan menggunakan bantuan peta atau carian Internet bagi memudahkan perjalanan ke sesuatu tempat.

  Masalah itulah yang cuba diselesaikan sekumpulan 14 graduan Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) dengan menampilkan lokasi atau bangunan melalui paparan tiga dimensi (3D).

  Dengan menamakan kumpulan mereka sebagai FolkStudio, graduan terbabit menggunakan teknik 3D bagi memudahkan orang ramai mencari lokasi di laman web Google Earth.
  Idea asal itu terbit apabila mereka mendapat maklumat mengenai satu pertandingan di laman web itu.
Sebagai langkah permulaan kumpulan yang terdiri daripada kumpulan anak muda yang berusia awal 20-an itu menjadikan kawasan pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan, Putrajaya sebagai lokasi untuk dibangunkan dalam versi 3D.
  Putrajaya dipilih kerana kawasan berkenaan yang bukan saja mempunyai daya tarikan untuk industri pelancongan tetapi juga kerana infrastrukturnya lengkap menyebabkannya wajar untuk diketengahkan.

Usaha berkenaan adalah yang pertama seumpamanya di Malaysia berbanding Amerika Syarikat, Jepun atau Korea.
  Ketua kumpulan FolkStudio, Mohd Azrul Mohmed Nasir, 23, berkata semua anggota kumpulannya itu adalah rakan sekuliah ketika mereka mengikuti pengajian di peringkat Sarjana Muda Sains (Seni Bina) di Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), Shah Alam dan bersepakat untuk sama-sama membangunkan pemetaan versi itu....... see more at http://www.hmetro.com.my/articles/PutrajayasasaranFolkStudio/Article/

 

 

ps:We want to say thank you to Metro and Mr Isma Ismail for the interview and chance given.We are really appreciated it.  -Folkstudio-

Kementerian Perdagangan Dalam Negeri Dan Hal Ehwal Pengguna

one of them.not finish mapping yet.still under construction.enjoy!

 p u t r a j a y a .Kementerian Perdagangan Dalam Negeri Dan Hal Ehwal Pengguna. b u i l d i n g

Ministry of Domestic Trade & Consumer Affairs
Kementerian Perdagangan Dalam Negeri & Hal Ehwal Pengguna
http://www.kpdnhep.gov.my/
Minister: Y.B. Dato' Sri Ismail Sabri Bin Yaakob
Deputy: Y.B. Dato' Tan Lian Hoe
Level 13 (tower), No. 13, Persiaran Perdana, Presint 2, 62623 Putrajaya
Tel: 03 8882 5500, 1 800 886 800 (Aduan Harga), 1 800 882 002 (Anti Piracy)
Fax: 03 8882 5762

credit to Faisal a.k.a Kean for mapping the building.

HISTORY OF PUTRAJAYA

"    P u t r a j a y a , an "Intelligent Garden City" and the federal administrative capital of Malaysia, is a showcase city under construction some 30 km south of the capital Kuala Lumpur. Her adjacent sister city, Cyberjaya, is built along the same lines, but is aimed at attracting the IT industry. The area was formerly known as Prang Besar.

     The project was started in 1993 and the federal capital officially moved in 1999, although the site is still far from complete. Putrajaya became a self-governing federal territory (wilayah persekutuan) in 2001, the third in Malaysia after Kuala Lumpur and the little oddball island of Labuan.

    The name literally means "princes' (putra) success (jaya)". Officially, the site is named in homage to Malaysia's first prime minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra, but odds are it's also a tip of the hat towards the "princes of the soil" (bumiputra), an euphemism for ethnic Malays (as opposed to the richer Chinese minority) and one of the key concepts of Malaysia's affirmative action program.

    Ever since the Asian economic crisis of 1998 development has slowed down markedly, and while there aren't any of the rusting half-built concrete shells that still litter KL and Bangkok, the careful eye will spot more than a couple of once cleared and dug-up but now abandoned fields (often with a crane or two stuck in the mud too). Basically, the infrastructure is largely in place but the buildings and occupants aren't, leading to the impression of a giant swath of hilly jungle crisscrossed by 8-lane highways with no other cars on them, and the occasional beautifully sculpted lake garden with no people in sight.

    That said, the area remains under heavy construction and both people and companies are slowly moving in. As of 2009, the population has surpassed 50,000, although there's still a long way to go to the targeted 300,000. Inevitably, development isn't always occurring in expected ways: Cyberjaya has to date mostly succeeded in attracting call centers and data warehouses, not R&D laboratories. The new twin cities may look very different in 5-10 years' time. "

The vision to have a new Federal Government Administrative Centre to replace Kuala Lumpur as the administrative capital emerged in the late 1980s, during the tenure of Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad. The new city was proposed to be located between Kuala Lumpur and the new KL International Airport (KLIA).

   The Federal government negotiated with the state of Selangor on the prospect of another Federal Territory and in the mid-1990s, the Federal government paid a substantial amount of money to Selangor for approximately 11 320 acres (46 km²) of land in Prang Besar, Selangor. As a result of this land purchase, the state of Selangor now completely surrounds two Federal Territories within its borders, namely Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya.

   Planned as the garden and intelligent city, 38% of the area is reserved for green areas by emphasizing the enhancement of natural landscape. A network of open spaces and wide boulevards were incorporated to the plan. Construction began in August 1995 and it was Malaysia's biggest project and one of Southeast Asia's largest with estimated final cost of US$ 8.1 billion. The entire project was designed and constructed by Malaysian companies with only 10% of the materials imported.

   The Asian Financial Crisis of 1997/1998 had somewhat slowed the development of Putrajaya. In 1999, 300 staffs of the Prime Minister's office were shifted to Putrajaya and the remaining government servants moved in 2005. On February 1, 2001 Tun Dr. Mahathir declared Putrajaya as a Federal Territory with the ceremony of handing over Putrajaya township from the Selangor state authorities.

   In 2002, a high speed rail link called KLIA Transit was opened, linking Putrajaya to both Kuala Lumpur and KL International Airport in Sepang. However, construction of the Putrajaya Monorail which was intended to be the city's metro system, was suspended due to costs. One of the monorail suspension bridges in Putrajaya remains unused.

In 2007, the population of Putrajaya was estimated to be over 30,000, which comprised mainly government servants.

Putrajaya information are taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putrajaya ,

BLOCK MASSING

P  H  A  S  E  1

block updated on 2 january 2010

M E E T I N G 6

M   E   E   T   I   N   G   6
M  R   K  A  Y  A    B  U  K  I  T   R  A  J  A

some snapshot taken during the meeting,enjoy it.

-inadiaz-

 

"Now you have a choice", Folkstudio.

Happy Holidays Malaysia!

To all the Malaysian Christians, hope you have a merry time!

And with the New Year around the corner, it's time to put every misgivings, misdeeds, regrets and sadness behind us -- instead let's start fresh with a new page.

MALAYSIA BOLEH.

With kind regards,
The FolkStudio team :)

Our goals and objectives

This is our target timeline, what we want to achieve by a certain time limit and date. Sorry about the small resolution, but basically we have a few short-term goals in the stretch of a long-term ambition -- in which the first short-term goal is entering the Google's Model Your Own Town competition.

Google competition - Entry confirmation form

Our application has been acknowledged by the Google team.

Thanks for entering the Google Model Your Town Competition!

On March 1, 2010 (the competition deadline), we'll copy the building models
in your Google 3D Warehouse collection into a separate directory for the
first round of judging. Please note that changes you make to your models
after the competition deadline will not be considered.

If your team is chosen as a finalist in the first round of judging, your
team leader will be notified by email on or around March 15, 2010. Any team
members who were not 18 years of age on or before December 1, 2009 must
complete and return a guardian consent form we will send you.

On April 1, 2010, the finalists will be posted to the public voting page on
the competition website.

Public voting will end on May 1, 2010.

On or around May 15, 2010, the winning team will be announced on the
competition website.

Please visit our http://twitter.com/modelyourtown

We're excited to see what you create. Good luck.

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Team Name: FOLKstudio
Team Member's Names: MOHD AZRUL B. MOHMAD NASIR , MOHD. AZRAR B. RAMLI, SHUIBULLAH B. AMRAN, ZAID B. AZMI, NABILAH NURUL SYAKINAH BT. OTHMAN, FATIN SHAZA HASANUDDIN
Primary Contact Name: MOHD AZRUL B. MOHMAD NASIR
Town Name: PUTRAJAYA
State/Province Name: WILAYAH PERSEKUTUAN PUTRAJAYA
Country: Malaysia
Approximate number of models in your competition entry: 26-50 buildings

Google 3D Warehouse Collection URL: http://www.google.com/profiles/FOLKstudio09

Online Video URL (optional): http://www.youtube.com/user/folkstudio09

Online Photo Album URL (optional): http://www.flickr.com/photos/45514458@N03/

How did you hear about the competition?: SketchUpdate Newsletter
Comments (optional): We're expecting to win this competition and shall try our best to support GoogleEarth's effort to 3D the whole world. Can Google Earth help us, on updating the Putrajaya, Malaysia since we found out there are some changes in the layout plan.

All the best to FOLKstudio!

MALAYSIA BOLEH!