Saturday 16 July 2016
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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