Planning For Park - Perdana Lake Garden

AUP 1212 LANDSCAPE PLANNING
NUR UYUN BT. AMAN (0530108)

LANDSCAPE PLANNING FOR PARKS AND RECREATION AREA.
Planning for parks and recreation area is important aspect that should be taken
into account as both play roles in order to create healthy and wealthy community
by providing place for therapeutic refreshment of one’s body or mind as well as
leisure in form of entertainment or rest. Area for playing should be allocated
because play is essential for the development of skills, the most basic of which
are common motor skills in young generation. Regard to social aspect, this can
be a basic step to build a healthy community with most progressive skills
enhancement. Otherwise, we are going to facing up the community with rigid
and bored activities inclusive the way of thinking and react.
Other than that, planning for parks and recreation area also facilitate to boost
the economic status because the planned park area exactly will attract people
from inside and out of the area as well as foreign country. This will give positive
impact at economic credibility especially in investment sector and indirectly
upgrade the quality of public service in an area. But, for not miss a thing, a
planned park should be well maintained and cared for the consistency in serving
good environment and activities for public to make sure the succeed of that
public spaces.
There are 11 key elements in transforming public spaces into vibrant community
places in a way to reflect the positive effect on social and economic aspect which
are:
1) The community is the expert
2) Create a place, not a design
3) Look for partners
4) You can see a lot just by observing
5) Have a vision
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6) Start with the petunias: experiment…experiment..
7) Triangulate
8) They always say ‘it can’t be done’
9) Form support function
10) Money is not the issue
11) Money is not issue
By referring to these key elements, we can judge to one particular public space
whether or not it is succeed. For this reason, we are going to check out one of
the existing parks in Malaysia; Taman Tasik Perdana or Perdana Lake Garden.
The location of the garden from KL Central and Commuter station.
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Perdana Lake Garden being the very first public park for the city of Kuala Lumpur
established in 1888. It covers 91.6 hectare of parks and gardens at the heart of
Kuala Lumpur. The gardens incorporate the National Monument, Deer park,
Butterfly Park, Bird Park, Carcosa Seri negara, The Forest Research Institute,
Orchid garden and Hibiscus garden.
It lies just on the edge of the city and used to be where the British elite built
their fine homes in the colonial times. Today, its landscaped hills and beautiful
trails provide an escape for city dwellers out for a jog or some early morning tai
chi. Its main attraction is the lake surrounded by lush greenery.
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People can roam through the aviaries at the Bird Park and Butterfly Park or take
a stroll through the beautiful Deer Park and Orchid Garden, which are all
reachable either by foot or by regular shuttle buses. From the gardens, people
can also visit other attractions such as the National Monument, the Planetarium
and the Islamic Museum.
Stairs that lead to the

Memorial Tun Abdul
Razak
View from the top of

stairs into Perdana
Lake Garden.
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Entrance to the
Deer Park from
Perdana Lake
Garden
One of the
entrances that
bring people to
the Bird Park,
Planetrium,
Islamic Art
Museum and
National Museum
as well.
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Here, the visitors may see a sprawling 91.6 hectares of close-cropped lawns,
undulating hills and carefully cultivated gardens. It provides a showcase of
harmony, beauty and tranquility created by both man and nature. Built around
two lakes, the tropical garden is a pleasant oasis within the city providing a cool
and soothing ambience as one walks through a vista of exotic blooms, luxuriant
foliage, imposing sculptures, creative theme parks and majestic-looking
raintrees.
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Lake Garden also offers locals and visitors a wide range of facilities such as
children's playground, jogging tracks, exercise stations and rowing boats.
Boating station near by the administration office
One of the cafes provided
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One of the playgrounds section for children
Shuttle service within the garden
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Jogging track and pathway- differ by the type of pavement
Another café and parking lot in the garden
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Public Toilet
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Perdana Lake Garden houses Herb and Conservatory Garden located near the
children's playground on one side and the lake's main activity centre on the
other. The Herb Garden houses at least 200 species of plants. Most herbs in the
garden are well labeled, carrying the local and scientific names and information
on their efficacy on the particular health problem.
Kuala Lumpur City Hall's park workers are ever willing to share the plants'
medicinal secrets of those yet to be labeled. The garden collections like cat's
whiskers, kaduk, grandmother's earrings, mother-in-law tongue, basil, roselle,
jarah, tulang-tulang and many more.
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With a huge raintree welcoming visitors, the adjacent Conservatory Garden looks
like a well-landscaped garden with a combination of bigger and richer trees and
trimmings like benches, shades, pergolas and ponds.
It houses almost all species including ferns, creepers, raintrees, shrubs and
bamboos with focus on those requiring concerted effort to cultivate and
conserve. In addition, the conservatory makes a nice hideout from the noise and
clamor.
The entrance of Herb and Conservatory Garden
An angle in the Herb

Garden.
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Based on the observing done at Perdana Lake Garden, it has going through
some enhancement of service within few years recently. The condition and
quality of Perdana Lake Garden before is not the same as we see today and this
is one of the examples show that planning in public area being seriously practice
in our country.
From the observation, the status of Perdana Lake Garden can be reached by the
S.W.O.T analysis.
Strength -Lake covers most of the area
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-Provide many open spaces
-Link with other sub-park
-Surround by green area
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-Many entrances
-Facilities provided within the park (as pictures shown above under
facilities provided)
Weakness -Far from public transportation hub

-Some part is not well-maintained
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-Some area which is quite isolated and far from people
-Lack of fixed scheduled events
Opportunity -Lake will be the most attractive element at the park

-Open spaces give chance for people to create their own activities
-Can be centre hub for people to transit to other sub-parks or area
as all are linking together
-Greenery can bring tranquility to visitors
Threat -Hard for people who use public transport service to reach to the
park
-Unhygienic area can give bad impression to public and cause
uneasy to them
-Lack in promoting the used of public park
From that, we can say that Perdana Lake Garden is almost to succeed because
the park is actually meet the needs of stakeholders as the park is frequently used
by public especially at weekend. From the key elements, Perdana Lake Garden is
able to ‘create a place, not a design’ only. It provides spaces accompanied by
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pleasant design of nature where public can use any spaces or area surrounded
by well-designed scenery.
In other hand, the element of ‘have a vision’ is applied in which there are some
activities provided such as boating and people can use space for perhaps a
family day. They also can use the track for cycling and jogging routine. As the
Perdana Lake Garden is nearby to some government department and places
where people work, it can be a place for them to drop by after facing tense and
pack duration within office hour. Thus, the park can instill the sense of pride in
the people who live and work in the surrounding area.
The element of ‘start with the petunias:experiment..experiment’ is applied

because the park is always in a process to upgrading the quality of services an
the condition of the area. Elements such as seatings, outdoor cafes, striping of
crosswalks and pedestrian havens, community gardens are some of the stuffs
that incorporate with this elements at the park.
Next, ‘triangulate’ element is practice for instances, the arrangement of open

spaces is only above or next to the lake where they use for boating activity and
there are café, and prayer room provided. Another is the location of open space
and playground which locate just next to and segregated only the road from the
main entrance. Plus, the herbs garden is only located next to the open space.
The location of other sub-parks also can create for some more activities where
people can transit to and experience for other activities. These actually able to
create for more activities when the form and space is well- arranged and
naturally will bring people to triangulate. Same goes to the location for other
form that support the function of the area such as seatings and water-cooler
especially in the playground area.
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Open space locates near to the playground in which can combine activities of
public.
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Finally, I would say that Perdana Lake Garden is almost to create a lively and
succeed park with its strength and capability but the main weakness of this park
is it is far from the transportation hub and scheduled events that can increase
the coming of people into the park and make more useful to public rather than
function as natural or green area in a town.
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APPENDICES
Some attractive and scenic view within the Perdana Lake Garden:
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Some activities that occur at Perdana Lake Garden:
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AUP 1212 LANDSCAPE PLANNING

NUR UYUN BT. AMAN (0530108)

The location of the garden from KL Central and Commuter station.

Stairs that lead to the

View from the top of

Boating station near by the administration office

One of the cafes provided

One of the playgrounds section for children

Shuttle service within the garden

Jogging track and pathway- differ by the type of pavement

Another café and parking lot in the garden

The entrance of Herb and Conservatory Garden

An angle in the Herb

Strength -Lake covers most of the area

-Link with other sub-park

-Surround by green area

Weakness -Far from public transportation hub

-Some area which is quite isolated and far from people

-Lack of fixed scheduled events

Opportunity -Lake will be the most attractive element at the park

The element of ‘start with the petunias:experiment..experiment’ is applied

Next, ‘triangulate’ element is practice for instances, the arrangement of open

Some activities that occur at Perdana Lake Garden:

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