URBAN CONTEXT - PERMEABILITY AS URBAN FRAMEWORK

D'Vine Residences is one of the parcels within the Sentral Park Damansara masterplan, a rapidly evolving 65-acre masterplan development in the post-pandemic period. The site sits centrally facing the primary access road, Jalan PJU 8/8, and LDP, placing the development in a highly visible and spatially interdependent position.

Rather than designing a defensive gated perimeter, this project pioneered the idea for the centerpieces of the masterplan to be permeable and accessible from one parcel to another. The intention was to activate the permeability of the ground plane with extended pedestrian paths, visual connections, complemented by retail edges to extend the pedestrian experience into the site and allowing the residents to participate in the surrounding urban life. Reframing affordable housing not as an isolated enclave but as an integrated component of the public realm within the masterplan development.