ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO V
by AR EDWARD
Architecture Design Studio V 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 learning centre for the urban community, for the city’s inhabitants.
Learning Outcomes
1. Analyze the site character and identify conditions of the urban streetscape and urban behavioural patterns
2. Analyze case studies to gain understanding of architectural response for urban infill sites and for spatial programming to inform the design project
3. Demonstrate the fundamental knowledge of Design Codes and Regulations
4. Explore plan-section and elevational studies to resolve relevant aesthetic, construction and environmental issues in the design development phase
5. Produce a design outcome that encompasses the appropriate site-specific architectural responses through its formal, cultural, legislative, structural and environmental design solutions for specific urban issues.
6. Produce drawings (both 2D and 3D), models and presentations to verbally and visually communicate architectural ideas and scheme
PROJECT 1 - PRELIMINARY STUDIES
2nd May 2019
The Preliminary Studies is a preparatory assignment that focuses on investigating basic notions of the city, and learning from examples of Learning Centre 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 Art Centre and architectural responses for urban infills.
The Preliminary Studies comprises of three components: Site Documentation, Site Analysis, and Precedent Studies of Urban Infills and Art Learning Centre. The Site Documentation and Site Analysis will equip students with a firm understanding of the site they will be working with this semester, while the Precedent Studies will provide an insight into architectural responses for designing an urban infill Art Centre.
The site given is Jalan Besar and Jalan Tukang , Kajang. After an in depth investigation on site, we have to select a better site for our project 2 - Art Centre
PROJECT 2- ART CENTRE
4th July 2019
The selected site for my Art centre is Site A which is Jalan Tukang. This area is an area which is being resuscitated in a sense to bring local community back together. There are a lot of boundaries in between the local community. The shopfront community and the back-alley community, the youngsters and the elderlies, the old face of Kajang and the new faces to bring into Kajang. Rethinking about the area and of course the needs of local community to communicate and interact, this learning centre forms and anchor and connection so that the people can gather here and strengthen the community.
Programmes in the Art centre are branched out from the interaction threshold approach to provide a space where people able to interact. Programmes spaces such as co-working space, workshops & studios provide an opportunity for the community to come together and anchor down the relationship among each other. These programmes spaces are linked together through civic threshold. The spaces are connected through various interaction spaces. After they have finish learning in each designated space, people can swarm out to the interaction spaces provided and come together. Spaces are connected through leveling and circulations.
A whole new experience different from shophouses at Jalan Tukang is provided in the Art Centre. People make choices on where they want to go and this network circulation draws to the spaces and the relationship together. The continuity of the Art centre from the five-foot walkway ease the circulation of people from the neighbor shophouses. Ground floor is opened up to serve more as a public space and allows the users to come in from 3 different direction – side alley, back alley & shopfront. High visual permeable towards the ground floor and high engagement programmes promote the people to stop by and visit the Art centre.
The material used for the Art centres are brick and glass in the interior to inform the public and private space. The brick shows an adaptivity towards the site context. Facades are made out of wooden louvers with greenery, so the passerby may have a glance into the interior space and evokes their curiosity. 2nd floor & 3rd floor of the learning centre is set back from the front elevation so that the skyline can be continued from the neighbor shophouses.
The main selling point of the Art centre is the spatial arrangement. Each space is visible from one another to allow connectivity in between. Passing through each space, users able to get a view on what’s happening all around them and personalized their path in Art centre, Sounds can be travelled throughout the Art centre as spaces are not enclosed. The sounds travel in between promotes a sense of busyness for the Art centre.
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