Studio IV
The Studio IV projects established an understanding of site with its specific features and ability to produce a universal yet poetic design for abled as well as disabled people, encompassing the masterplanning and engagement with activities on the site.
Project 1
The aim of the first project: Site Analysis & Design Response establishes an understanding of the context for intervention. In assigned tutorial groups, students conducted site visit to identify the physical as well as the intangible qualities that shape the character of the site. Engagement with site users established the needs of the community at site. As the Design Response of the Site Analysis stage, students worked with the tutorial group to draw up a new plan for the demarcated site area through the design of a Kebun Komuniti Plan, which served as the base for Project 1B: Architectural Allotment and Project 2: P3KU Kebun Komuniti Center.
Project 2
Within the context of the tutorial group Kebun Komuniti Plan, students will broke up into smaller groups to design an Architectural Allotment, which is intended to showcase architectural form as a construct of materiality for a proposed set of activities related to the cultivation of plants. The exploration of themes centred around the cultivation of plants together with requirement for seating, shading and storage will relate to the programmatic requirements in Project 2.
Final project
The final project provides full design proposals incorporating findings from site analysis and precedent studies. Students generated narratives that respond to the environment and community within the given context and explored environmental poetics of building enclosure’s design solutions that reduce environmental impact utilizing various complex typologies of spatial organisations and a variety of passive strategies for sustainable design. The design contributed to and merged harmoniously with environment and site and provided the best of spatial experiences in fostering a sense of community