Meera Satheesh
Architecture Design Studio 5 (ARC 3118)
Project 1: Preliminery Studies (Brickfields)
Architecture Design Studio 5 focuses on the theme of place-making for the urban street. It aims to explore and provide appropriate architectural solutions in designing a community library for the city’s inhabitants. Students will begin by conducting preliminary studies in that introduces them to the studies and context of urbanity through the analysis and documentation of the current urban condition of a selected inner-city site. This will be done in concurrence with the research of urban infill and community library precedents, and their architectural responses. By the end of the module, students will have developed an appropriate scheme for an urban contemporary community library within a dense inner-city street environment that takes into consideration an understanding of applicable current legislations, building technologies and cultural imperatives of the site and its surroundings..
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Site Perception
Project 2: Community Library (Brickfields)
For the rest of the semester, we were to concentrate on designing a community library within an urban infill site. The design of the building is to consist of appropriate architectural responses that address the aspects of the urban street context and user behavioural patterns as discerned and analysed in the Preliminary Studies.
Apart from developing an appropriate formal and elevational strategy in response to the character of the street, the design should take into consideration a holistic application of structural, spatial, functional and environmental requirements to address the user needs for a community library. The design development of this project will include an introduction to the legislative restrictions that impact an architectural scheme, the integration of lighting and acoustic design, as well as the design exploration and detailing of the façade and building envelopes that is coherent with the architectural language of the overall design project.
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Through this project I've learnt ;
1. To take into consideration key aspects of urban design and context in relation to architecture
2. To develop an awareness and basic compliance to Design Codes and Statutory Requirements
3. To emphasize the importance of elevational context and composition in developing architectural design
4. To implement and explore the conceptual, schematic and design development phases in an architectural design project
5. Produce a design outcome for an urban community library is site-specific through its formal, cultural, legislative, structural and environmental design responses
6.Apply basic knowledge of urban architectural typologies, infill design strategies and community library programming
7. Demonstrate fundamental knowledge and awareness of design codes and regulations
8. Design within the constraints of feasibility and in response to basic design codes and statutory requirements
9. Utilise study models, diagramming, mapping, orthographic plan-section and elevational studies to explore and resolve relevant spatial, structural, functional and environmental issues in the design development phase
10. Produce drawings (both 2D and 3D), models and presentations to verbally and visually communicate architectural ideas and scheme.
