Project 1b: Architectural Design Strategy
Here, we will concentrate on designing a Community Centre for the Creative City within an urban block 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 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 Centre for the Creative City. 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. The design outcome has to exhibit strong integration in construction and theory, within the Studio, whilst concurrently integrating with the Module on Building Services.
Aim: to deduct a position for finding architecture and producing architectural design strategy.
By this time of the semester, the students should be able to find their positions to develop the Community Centre for the Creative City. The students are to individually interpret the idea of ‘Community Centre for the Creative City’ and come up with an architectural design strategy for the same. This will be in-reflection to the issues and inspirations they found in Project 1a in order to offer to character, continuity and enclose, quality of public realm, ease of movemen t, legibility, adaptability, and diversity in the city. Architecture is about geometry. Exploration with 1:200 models on form-typologies such as linear, perimeter and diffused in terms of layering, subtraction, over - lapping etc is compulsory at this stage.
INTERIM 1
INTERIM 2
Throughout this project, I've learn how to design and create architectural spaces with consideration of environmental poetics in relation to the basic natural context and existing built context (harness environmental qualities of the site to inform design) which impact on users’ experiences. And also to establish an appropriate level of understanding of materiality and detailing as means to capture experiential qualities of the design.