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Synopsis: Architecture Design Studio 5
 
Architecture Design Studio 5 focuses on the theme of place-making for the urban community. It aims to explore urban conditions pertaining to movement, events and spaces within urban street context and to 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 through legibility analysis of a selected inner-city site. This will be done inn 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 legislation, building technologies and cultural imperatives of the site and its surroundings. The definition of place-making is seen as a proposal that is sensitive to the context, local character and distinctiveness of the space. The students are to design a community library as an attempt to place-making. The studio runs through two projects: stage 1: urban study on place making aspects; stage 2 comprises of architectural strategy and design development. The students are to derive interpretations for a community library in order to relate and offer to the community in the urban context.
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Teaching Objectives
 
  1. To introduce aspects of the city and urbanity in relation to architectural design
  2. To develop an awareness and application of legislative requirements and socio-behavioural patterns of urban environments and communities in architectural design.
  3. To explore key stages involved in architectural design development.
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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 library 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.
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Objectives
 
  1. To have an overview of the formation of cities and introduce basic concepts of urban design in relation to architectural design
  2. To introduce and implement basic methodologies of urban studies
  3. To investigate the role of community libraries in traditional and contemporary urban societies
  4. To examine various examples and architectural responses for urban infills
 
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As a group under the same tutor, we are required to produce site analysis of our given site. In the end, we need to produce a site model and boards of diagrams and other analysis.
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Project 2: Community Library
 
Apart from developing a narrative on architectural strategy in response to the relevant questions pertaining to community and its context, 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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Objectives
 
  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
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Community Library
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After conducting the site analysis, we were required to design a community library at the given site as individuals.
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