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Podcast: Talk Architecture
Episode: Re-examining Community Architecture: Interview on Francis Poh's PJ Old Town All Girls' Primary Schools
Description: Send us Fan MailFrancis Poh in his interview talked about how being sensitive to "gender" issues helped him design the Petaling Jaya All Girls' Primary Schools. After exploring Section 4, in the earlier stages of the design thesis, he discovered the interesting waterways network that created pedestrian linkages and shortcuts for workers and students in that area. That led him to the dead-end at the boundaries of SK Assunta and SK Selangor, two schools at opposite sides of the monsoon drain which had the potential to create a concept to integrate both schools to benefit from the...