TZE YING'S
PORTFOLIO
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO 5 (ARC 60306)
Architecture Design Studio 5 focuses on the theme of place-making for the urban community. It aims to explore urban conditions pertaining to movement, events and spaces within the urban street context and to provide appropriate architectural solutions in designing a community library for the city’s inhabitants.
Project 1: Preliminary Studies
The Preliminary Studies is a preparatory assignment that focuses on investigating basic notions of the city, and learning from examples of community library around the world. This assignment aims to firstly introduce us 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 community library and architectural responses for urban infills.
The Preliminary Studies comprises of three components: Site Documentation, Site Analysis, and Precedent Studies of Urban Infills and Community Library. The Site Documentation and Site Analysis equipped us with a firm understanding of the site we were working with this semester, while the Precedent Studies provided an insight into architectural responses for designing an urban infill community library.
In a group of 15, we produced the site documentation materials (drawings and models in both digital and physical copy for further use), a comprehensive analysis of the site, and a detailed case study of a relevant urban infill and community library.
The slideshow below shows the compilation of A3-sized presentation boards of our preliminary studies of Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman in Kuala Lumpur, and photos of the physical site study.
This final project concentrates on designing a 3 to 5-storey community library of total floor area 1,200 square metres within an urban infill site. The design of the building is to consists appropriate architectural responses that address the aspects of the urban street context and user behavioral patterns as discerned and analysed in the Preliminary Studies. The design also takes into consideration a holistic application of structural, spatial, functional and environmental requirements to address the user needs for a community library. The design development includes 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 facade and building envelopes that is coherent with the architectural language of the overall design project.
Project 2: Community Library
