ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IV (ARC60508)

In Semester 4, 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 1A: Site Analysis & Design Response - MyKebun

Site Analysis & Design Response establishes an understanding of the context for Project 1B and 1C. In assigned tutorial groups, students will conduct site visits to identify the physical as well as the intangible qualities that shape the character of the site. Engagement with site users will establish the needs of the community at the site. As the Design Response of the Site Analysis stage, students will work with their tutorial group to draw up a new plan for the demarcated site area through the design of a Community Garden Masterplan, named MyKebun which will serve as the base for Project 1C: Senior Social Hub.

Project 1B: Design Esquisse – Architectural Anatomy

Project 1B deals with the understanding of materiality in relation to use and experience. Materiality is seen as a setting for communal activities to convey meaning and associations as well as a function of structure and construction. Students will be required to design a small structure, which is intended to showcase architectural form and materiality for a proposed set of activities. The exploration of themes centered around the notion of community farming as well as spatial experience of users in this project will relate to the programmatic requirements in Project 1C

Project 1C: Senior Social Hub

The project calls for the design of a Senior Social Hub within the suburban neighbourhood. Students are required to provide full design proposals incorporating findings from site analysis and precedent studies. Students will generate narratives that respond to the environment and community within the given context and explore the environmental poetics of building enclosure design solutions that reduce environmental impact utilizing various complex typologies of spatial organisations and a variety of passive strategies for sustainable design. The design should contribute to and merge harmoniously with the environment and site and provide the best of spatial experiences in fostering a sense of community.