the new city of Putrajaya
location
Putrajaya / Malaysia
client
Putrajaya Holdings
programme
masterplan for the central island of the new administrative capital
area
400 ha
consortium
project carried out for AUSB (Kuala Lumpur) in association with HOK (Hong-Kong, San Francisco)
Press
Malaysia has built a new federal administrative city to be located half way between Kuala Lumpur and the new airport. In a country where the Parisian urban model is an important reference, the Prime Minister decided that the centre of this new city would be on an island. It would have an underground railway network and would be orientated around a monumental boulevard, 100m wide.
We were commissioned to produce a detailed urban masterplan for this island and to devise planning regulations for the creation of the city’s blocks. Our proposal was for a collection of coordinated and well-defined specific models: closed city blocks along the main boulevard, lined with arcades and a variety of facades; ‘u’ shaped blocks as you move towards the major natural features of the lake and the hills; and on the periphery freeform blocks on stilts in reference to traditional Malaysian architecture.