Kuantan Expedition Tower
Architectural Studio Project
Architectural Studio Project
Architects : TKH
Location : Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia
Project Year : 2011
Project Area : Site area: - sq m, GFA: - sq
Building Height & Nos of Floors : +228.00 m / 60F above ground, 1F below ground
Function : Observation Tower & Tourism Gallery
Typical Malaysian Tower is designed with 360 degree view, revolving restaurant, vertical enclose lift and communication purpose.
The proposal reinvents tower typology from communication purpose to tourism promotion.
Travel experience within the tower is enriched with multiple modes such as panoramic lifts, cable car, sky-walk, glass cube, rooftop amphitheatre and so on.
Typical Kuantan tourism maps only provide location of interesting places.
The proposal reinvents the tourism map to travel distance map by providing directional route and suitable transportation mode.
These travel distance map reorganize into linear map and vertical map and formed the tourism gallery on ground level and sky level.