ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IV
(ARC60508)
With 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 projects involve studies of precedents on design projects that are responsive to the environmental conditions and sustainable issues.
PROJECT 1: DISABILITY EXPERIENCE PAVILION
This introductory exercise will serve as an ice-breaker project for students to delve into the idea of wellness and architecture. Students are to design a Disabilities Experience Pavilion that is meant to serve as a small recreational space in a hypothetical park for people with disabilities.
We were to design a structure that would allow a user group to participate in a set of recreational activities. To the public, this structure will serve to highlight the importance disability awareness in the design of spaces. The pavilion should be safe with all mechanisms being simple and easy to operate. The main materials for its construction should be weather-proof and outdoor worthy.
PROJECT 2: Wellness Center PLUS
Furthering the thematic exploration of “engaging environment and community”, Project 2 calls for the design of a Wellness Center PLUS within the Kepong Botanical Gardens, bordering the suburban neighbourhood of Taman Ehsan. Students are required to provide full design proposals incorporating findings from precedent studies and site analysis. Students will generate narratives that respond to the environment and community as user group within the given context and explore environmental poetics of building enclosure’s design solutions that reduce environmental impact utilizing various complex typologies of spatial organizations and a variety of passive strategies for sustainable design. The design should contribute to and merge harmoniously with environment and site and provide the best of spatial experiences in fostering a sense of community.