A continuation from Architectural Design Studio 3, 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 precedence on design projects that are responsive to the environmental conditions and sustainable issues. Using the precedent studies, we explored the environment poetics of the building enclosure that respond to the basic natural context such as the sun, wind, heat, cold, energy issue and existing building context (which has clustered built forms for example community center, nature appreciative center, research center). Considerations should be given to the complexity of the program, site topography and vegetation, socio-cultural events, and variety of passive strategies for sustainable design. The design work should contribute to and merge harmoniously with environment and the site, and provide the best of experiences for the community of users. We are required to demonstrate applications of knowledge gained from Environmentally Sustainable Design and Building Science 1 modules from prior semesters  and integrate research from Asian Architecture Module.  

 

 

The teaching objectives of the module are:

1. To develop awareness of environmental sustainability in architectural design 

2. To develop the ability to meet the imperative and inter-related environmental and social needs, as well as make poetry with the building

3. To emphasize on space planning of clusters of buildings. 

 

 

Contents:

1. Project 1: A Personal Space

2. Project 2: Center for the Elderly 

 

 

 

Project 1: A Personal Space

This project deal with user experience that required us to design a personal space which is intended for a specific user based on an in-depth study of the user's need. It is to develop awareness of environmental sustainability in a design and the ability to meet the imperative and inter-related social needs. In addition, the project will prepare us to programmatic requirements of specific group of users for Project 2.