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The subject explores the history of South, Southeast and East Asian architecture as a whole within a systematic treatment of architectural design and construction, building science and technology, garden design and city planning through three key components:

Contextual Architecture, historical development and modernization and globalization

These themes will guide the organization of weekly lecture and projects, which will proceed from the establishment of a basic theoretical apparatus to the examination of specific cases.

Contextual architecture

This component is driven by Design Studio 4 to support your design through extensive research within the within framework of Contextual Architecture in Asia.

Keywords: contexts, adaptive, passive approach, Bioregionalism

This component prepares you with in-depth understanding about the origin, traditional, culture and the development of vernacular architecture in Asia.

Keywords: origins, traditional, culture, vernacular architecture

Modernisation & Globalisation

This component provides an insight into the development of architecture in Asia due to modernization. Issues discussed involve urbanism, national and cultural identity due to modernization and globalization.

Keywords: urbanism, nation, culture, identity, globalization, complexities.

The teaching objectives of module are

This project is driven by Architectural Design Studio 4, as an approach to support our design through extensive research within the framework of Contextual Architecture in Asia. The Contextual Architectre framework focuses on students’ review, leading to a well-established case study paper structure and writing. Assessments involve oral presentation and a written paper of 3000 words. The final topic of the paper should be finalized by the fifth week of the course. We had to present the summary of the paper with images in class - which contains an outline of the paper covering issues and themes explored, as well as bibliography.

Presentation board

This project has given me a chance to understand how to write a case study paper in a proper way. I realized how important it is to choose an appropriate and interesting topic that can bring out most of the messages my selected building can convey. The direction of this case study paper was led by 5 questions which are related to the title. By doing this paper, a lot of vernacular and contextual ideas I have learnt based on how deep I analyses. I also leant about how to link the facts that I read about thermal comfort with local architecture. How well the design strategies work to improve thermal performance in response to site context. However, some design cons was realized and it remind me not to implement this kind of strategies in my future design. Last but not least, proper citation skills have been learnt to cite my work and check the plagiarism similarity percentage through the turn in website to ensure the originality of the paper.