Kampung Kerinchi Primary School Part 2 Project 2019 Cheryl Yew University of Malaya | Malaysia One of the biggest urban issues in Kerinchi is the lack of educational facilities. This low-income community needs public education the most as it is free and accessible to all. Yet, the nearest primary school can only be found in Bangsar, a neighbourhood located across a highway, north of Kerinchi. Kerinchi’s population has been increasing rapidly the past few years, so in order to overcome the scarcity of land, adaptive reuse was proposed to overcome for this thesis. There was an existing agama school that was underutilised and the housing next door to this school had a seemingly abandoned multipurpose hall. By integrating this hall into the new school design as an assembly hall on the weekdays and a community hall on the weekends for nearby communities. Through adaptive reuse, a typical classroom can be reimagined and given new life. Dead, long and narrow corridors and secluded stairwells are now transformed into outdoor learning spaces. That not only serve a technical functional purpose of acting as walkways and fire escapes, but it also now makes room for new interactive, sensory stimulating, informal learning spaces. The staircases are also transformed into stair-cum-ramps that enables empathy design for children with physical disabilities. Tutor(s) Naziaty Mohd Yaakob