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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.
Project 1 : Preliminary Studies
The Preliminary Studies is a preparatory assignment that focuses on investigating basic notions of the city, and learning from examples of community libraries around the world. This assignment aims to firstly introduce students to the basics in urban design and its relation to architecture, and secondly, studying and determining the programmatic function, societal role and spatial layout of a community library and architectural responses for urban infills.
Project 2 : Community Library
Right after the site analysis, students will 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 ofthe 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.
analysed in the Preliminary Studies. Apart from developing an appropriate formal and elevational strategy in response to the character ofthe 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 site for this project is located in Sentul and facing to Jalan sultan Azlan Shah which is also known as Jalan Ipoh. We had done a lot of investigation and analysis about the site in the previous project and we found out that plenty of people are living there, walking around the site. It is unbelievable but it is true that a dead ambient is presented with this high population on the site. The site itself does not lack of amount of people, it require more interaction within people living there or passing there. Therefore, a typical library which is just for people to read, study or research is definitely not enough for Jalan Ipoh, it need a library that evolved to a new stage that require more community spaces and activities to pull people together, strengthen their bond. The intention of my design is to give people a chance of having interaction within each other whether they want to come into the library. I came out with a concept of using the negative volume, the void between the split levels floors to pull all the people and information together.
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Project 1 – Pavilion Design Grammar
In this assignment students will be exposed to the shape grammar procedure in understanding the underlying
language that made up an existing pavilion design. The design language will be translated into shape rules that
explain the transformations of shapes or objects that took place in the design. Using the newly established rules,
students are required to produce several design alternatives of a pavilion in the same style as the original design.
Form a group of between 2 to 3 students. Each group is required to find ONE existing contemporary pavilion design
from the internet which is believed to have certain underlying design principles. This could be identified especially if
the design has some repetitive components, gradual enlargement or reduction in scale, gradual rotation, or other
types of transformation. You may simplify the components especially if it is too complicated.
Then, the group should study the underlying design principles by analysing the transformation process within the
shapes of the main components i.e. enlargement, rotation or translation of triangles, squares or hexagons, etc. and
translate them into shape rules. There is no limitation on the number of shape rules that can be created.
Next, the group needs to produce FIVE pavilion designs using the shape rules that have been established. Finally,
choose ONE pavilion design and show the development process of creating it and include 3D renderings of the final
design.
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Project 2 – Pavilion Design Grammar
In this final project, students will be employing multiple rule shape grammar to produce new architectural designs
from their own set of rules. Each student needs to recall and creatively apply all the knowledge that they have
acquired from lectures, exercises and Project 1 to produce a good grammar. The shape grammar will allow students
to create multiple design alternatives of the building and subsequently choose the best design to be further detailed.
Project 1 : Lighting & Acoustic Performance Evaluation and Design
Lighting DESIGN is a primary element in architecture design and interior architecture. Solid volumes, enclosed spaces, colors and texture can only be appreciated fully when they are imaginatively lit. Successful buildings are those in which the lighting of the building itself and the lighting of the activities it contains together make up a unified design concept. This project is design to expose and introduce students to daylighting and lighting requirement in a suggested space.
Acoustic DESIGN is an element which concerned with control of sound in spaces especially enclosed spaces. It is essential to preserve and enhance the desired sound and to eliminate noise and undesired sound. Prestigious buildings are those in which the acoustic of the building itself speak of the quality of the building itself. This project is design to expose and introduce students to acoustic design and acoustical requirements in a suggested space.
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Project 2 : Lighting & Acoustics (Design Studio Integration)
This project aims to integrate students' understanding of the principles of lighting and acoustics in the context their final design project of studio 5. It encompasses advanced daylighting systems and the integration of electrical lighting, strategies for noise management and room acoustics.
Project1 – Industrialised Building System
This is a group assignment which predominantly relates to the topics of Industrialised Building System (IBS) as well as the materials’ embodied energy. Before embarking on this project students will be exposed with different types and methods of the IBS system and the calculation of embodied energy of different building materials in the classroom. First, the group has to design a 3-storey apartment block using mainly IBS components. Then, the group has to construct a physical model of the building to imitate the actual IBS construction process and to record all the process in a video.
Project 2 – Construction Solutions
This assignment is aligned with the Studio Design Project (semester 4 and 5) and aims to facilitate students in the technical studies and development of their design. It deals with the analysis and establishment of the structural and the envelope systems of the student’s design to ensure that the design has logical and workable construction systems. It also encourages students to think about construction as integral part of the design and not just an afterthought. Most of the times amateur designers tend to design their spaces without thinking about the construction aspects and later on have to change and redesign their schemes due to the designs were unbuildable. This assignment was design with the intention to tackle this issue and to increase the technical competency of students.Task 1: Alternative Design Schemes
1. Conduct some precedent studies of recent, complex
or unique construction systems that could be applied
in the design. They should include the following:
A) The roof system (reinforced concrete flat roof,
green roof and the common roof trusses are
prohibited)
B) TWO (2) facade systems (the common glass
curtain wall systems are prohibited)
C) The structural system including the floor
system (the common reinforced concrete postand-beam
system is prohibited)
2. Next, conduct a thorough study on all the systems to
answer the following questions:
i) What is the type of construction system used?
ii) What is/are the material(s) used in the system?
iii) How is the system constructed? (i.e. detailing)
iv) What is/are the advantage(s) of the system?
v) What is/are the disadvantage(s) of the system?
vi) Why did you choose the system considering the
advantages and disadvantages of it?
Your answers to the questions should be in the form of writing and sketches and accompanied by images from
the precedent studies.
3. Then, using the similar systems as the ones in the case studies, produce TWO (2) alternatives of façade
design schemes for the current studio design project. Each design scheme should include only the front and
the rear façades (in scale 1:100) together with the neighbouring buildings. The drawings can be created based
on the students’ current progress in the studio.
Task 2: Sectional Perspectives
Task 2 on the other hand is intended to facilitate students to develop practical construction solutions and detailing for
their own design through the production of sectional perspective drawings of spaces. Students are required to
produce detail sectional perspective drawing of TWO interesting spaces in their design;
which consists of a room on the ground floor and a room on the top floor.
