Taman Panorama Benak

Taman Panorama Benak, a public park at the historic Fort Alice website online in Sri Aman, has received an worldwide honour at the Arcasia Awards for Architecture 2013. Submitted via architect Mike Boon of Arkitek JFN Sdn Bhd, it received a point out in the Public Amenity: Social/Institution Buildings Category on the awards ceremony in Nepal ultimate week. The award recognises the architect’s design approach that has effectively addressed site, historical past and cultural troubles.

Instituted by the Architects Regional Council of Asia, the awards goal to inspire and recognise exemplary work through architects working in Asia. Boon stated this turned into the second one structure award obtained by means of Taman Panorama Benak after it received Pertubuhan Arkitek Malaysia’s national PAM Award within the Public and Civic Buildings category in 2010. He said the undertaking become conceived as a public park with a wheelchair-reachable ramp to carry visitors from the road right down to a new river esplanade in Sri Aman metropolis.

“A seven-metre drop from the road stage to the esplanade manner that, functionally, the ramp has to wind down the slope with enough distance to obtain a mild gradient.” This consequences in a spiral shape comparable to the midin or paku, a neighborhood wild fern which is likewise vast most of the Ibans. It's miles very stunning.