Look before drawing
The existing place is evidence. Field observation, mapping and conversation come before form.
Studio
Experience gives us history.
Curiosity keeps it useful.
Rekarancang is a Malaysian town planning and urban strategy practice. Since 1977, we have worked through successive chapters of the country's growth while continuing to ask what its places need next.
The practice
We do not see planning as the production of documents. It is the patient work of understanding how a place functions, deciding what should change and making that change possible.
Working principles
How we approach the work.
Work across scales
Decisions at the street and regional levels continually shape one another.
Make complexity legible
A plan becomes useful when different people can understand the choices inside it.
Stay close to delivery
Strategy matters when it can survive approvals, budgets, phasing and change.
People
Planners, designers, researchers and spatial thinkers.
The people directory will be added once portraits, biographies and publication permissions are assembled. The content model is reserved for roles, disciplines, selected work and individual perspectives, not a wall of passport photographs.