Students will concentrate on designing a community library within an urban infill 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 an appropriate formal and elevational strategy in response to the character of the street, the design should take into consideration a holistic application of structural, spatial, functional and environmental requirements to address the user needs for a community library. 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.
-Produce a design outcome for a community library that is site-specific
through its formal, cultural, legislative, structural and environmental design
responses.
-Apply basic knowledge of urban architectural typologies,
infill design strategies, and community library programming
-Demonstrate fundamental knowledge and awareness of local
design codes and regulations
-Design within the constraints of feasibility and in
response to basic design codes and statutory requirements
-Utilise study models, diagramming, mapping, orthographic
plan-section and elevational studies to explore and resolve relevant spatial,
structural, functional and environmental issues in the design development phase
-Produce drawings (both 2D and 3D), models and presentations
to verbally and visually communicate architectural ideas and scheme.
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In this studio project,it was important to learn how to improve the community engagement into a building design. A good community building should always take community as a core and all the design intention are based of the people surrounding the context. Hence, design a library should consider the appropriate programme inside the building and how the building function related to the building design.Overall, i feel lucky to have an responsible tutor leading me to a correct direction of design thinking.
