in Future Real Estate Development
Way of Architectural Vision
2010-2012
2013 Aug - Dec
2014 Aug - Dec
In Semester 4, themed “engaging environment and community”, the studio explores design by harnessing environmental qualities and conditions for human and environment sustainability through a project with a specific community of users within a given context. The project involves precedent studies on design projects that are responsive to the environmental conditions and sustainable issues. Using the precedent studies, students explore the environment poetics of the building enclosure that respond to the basic natural context such as the sun, wind, heat, cold, energy issue and the existing building context (which has clustered built forms for example community centre, nature appreciative center, research centre). Considerations should be given to the complexity of the programme, site topography and vegetation, socio-cultural events, and variety of passive strategies for sustainable design. The design work should contribute to and merge harmoniously with environment and the site, and provide the best of experiences for the community of users. Students are required to demonstrate applications of knowledge gained from Environmentally Sustainable Design and Building Science 1 modules from prior semesters and integrate research from Asian Architecture module.
Design Studio IV Nature Appreciation Centre (Sepang EIC)
Project 1 PRECEDENT STUDIES
Objective
Stage 1 is to seek and investigate existing knowledge on similar scheme and sustainable architecture that respond to the basic natural context such as the sun, wind, heat, cold, energy issue, and context. The main aim is to analyse architectural precedents for:
1. Spatial typology
2. Spatial programming
3. Poetic relationship between the built and natural setting.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the project, student should be able to:
1. Utilize precedent study as research technique
2. Reflect precedent and techniques of analysis in the critique and development of projects
3. Demonstrate the ability to execute a design integrating the analysis of precedent and context within the process of design
4. Respond to environmental concerns in the development and realization of design projects through the study of precedent
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Project 2 DISCOVERING THE SITE & ITS GENIUS LOCI
Stage 2 of the project is to identify and analyze the site context for design exploration. In groups, carry out a thorough research on the subject and site analysis. Students to Identify and analyze environmental and social needs of a site that lead to formulation of the design programme.
Project 3 - ARCHITECTURE DESIGN
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Objectives
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To develop awareness of environmental sustainability in architectural design.
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To develop the student’s ability to meet the imperative and inter-related environmental and social needs, as well as make poetry with the buildings.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the subject, students will be able to:
1. Apply ideas of environmental sustainability in design
2. Design and create architectural spaces with consideration of environmental poetics in relation to the basic natural context and existing built context which impact on users’ experiences
3. Combine the environmental needs, the site (site topography, history and socio-cultural events), and the users’ experiences within simple building design in the open landscape/suburban context.
4. Produce drawings (both 2D and 3D), modelling and verbal presentation to communicate and visualize architectural design and ideas based on clustered spatial typology.
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