Evaluating Campus Outdoor Design Towards Students’ Smart Space

Abstract

The user-friendly, comfortable campus, eco-friendly setting, high speed and connectivity of the online environment and green approach, often seen as a single entity in campus design projects, play a significant role in the design of built resources projects. Implementing the Livable Campus agenda in projects is advantageous, mainly when a team adopts a new design process to achieve design sustainability. This can lead to sustainable designs in the Students’ Smart Space (SSS) outdoor design projects. Most studies have focused on identifying the essential criteria that lead to innovative future space design in new campus development settings. The 2024 Sustainable Campus for Index discovery is limited to Campus Building design, interior design and it is found that does not cover the campus outdoors quality. This study aims to identify the outdoor intelligent space pattern in the occupied stages of the retrofit campus from the end-users’ perspective for students’ outdoor space in between campus buildings. A semi-structured questionnaires was distributed amongst students through the appointed lecturers as the researcher’s representative in three campuses of the Faculty of Built Environment in Puncak Alam Selangor (PAC), Seri Iskandar Campus, Perak (SIC), and Kota Samarahan, Sarawak (KSC); to achieve the research aim. The Index Seven approach of SSS to analysis revealed the selected areas or clusters along with a critical supporting factor. The investigation revealed three ideas for the pre-study and study stages and one for the post-study stage. The findings unveiled that to provide a practical tool in measuring the quality of the outdoor students’ space shall be made as a compulsory check on measuring feedback from students.