Architectural Design Studio 4 [ARC2128][ARC2126]
PROJECT 1A
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:
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Utilize precedent study as research technique
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Reflect precedent and techniques of analysis in the critique and development of projects
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Demonstrate the ability to execute a design integrating the analysis of precedent and context within the process of design
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Respond to environmental concerns in the development and realization of design projects through the study of precedent.
Precedent Study A
Precedent Study B
PROJECT 1B
Discovering the Environment & Social Needs for Contextual Architecture
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:
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Utilize precedent study as research technique
-
Reflect precedent and techniques of analysis in the critique and development of projects
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Demonstrate the ability to execute a design integrating the analysis of precedent and context within the process of design
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Respond to environmental concerns in the development and realization of design projects through the study of precedent.
The site location is within the are of the Malaysian Nature Society Environmental Interpretive Centre in Sepang, Selangor, and located approximately 75-minute drive from Kuala Lumpur. The EIC is dominated by landscape of mangrove and rivers. It also acts as a sanctuary to many species of flora and fauna such as endangered smooth otter.
The second phase requires the personal interpretations of the overall character of the site, identifying and analysing environmental features as well asn social need of the particular site as basis for the architectural design proposal.
PROJECT 2
Nature Appreciation Centre
This project calls for a design of a simple public building with some complexity that includes the complexity of site topography and vegetation, socio-cultural events, and variety of strategies for sustainable design.
It explores design solutions that harness environmental qualities and conditions for human and environment sustainability through a project with a specific community of users. Students explore design solutions that reduce environmental impact
utilising clustered spatial typology and passive design approach. The design work should contribute to and merge harmoniously with nature and the site, and provide the best of experiences for the users.
Objectives
1. To develop awareness of environmental sustainability in architectural design.
2. 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.
Project brief
This project requires students to propose a communal facility accommodating several related functions such as meeting and learning in a suburban context. Students are to develop their own concept for the communal space based on their research of
the area and the community’s needs. This working method is intended to have the student design in near full-freedom; however they will be required to make an informed response firstly to the surrounding context. Their capacity to respond architecturally and contextually to this task will form part of the basis upon which they will be marked.
Site Location
The site of the project is within the area of the Malaysian Nature Society Environmental Interpretive Centre in Sepang, Selangor. Located approximately 75 minutes from Kuala Lumpur, the Environmental Interpretive Centre (EIC) is dominated by landscape of mangroves and rivers. It also acts as a sanctuary to many species of flora and fauna such as the endangered smooth otter, which has been adopted by the EIC as its logo. (https://www.mns)
EIC was established on 9th April 2009 and trained its focus on the conservation of mangroves and the Sepang Rivers. This centre also plays an important role in promoting eco-tourism. Eco-tourism is defined as minimizing impact on environmental Prepared by NHH 2 Updated 4/11/2014interaction with nature, community involvement, environmental activity and economics sustainability. In this respect, EIC acts
as the centre point in promoting the entire existing eco-tourism products in Sepang.
