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PROJECT 1- SITE ANALYSIS

SENTUL

INTRODUCTION

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 students 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 will equip students with a firm understanding of the site they will be working with this semester, while the Precedent Studies will provide an insight into architectural responses for designing an urban infill community library. The outcome of the Preliminary Studies will include the production of 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 purpose of Site Analysis is to observe and record the site's current condition, and collect additional information to be used in the initial design conceptualization and strategy phase. In this project, each group are required to submit minimum of 8 A3 panels.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

1. Conduct case studies and site analysis to generate an understanding of the physical and cultural context and development of urban environments.

2. Determine and describe the role of a community library in a contemporary urban setting.

3. Examine and establish appropriate architectural responses and strategies for designing within an urban infill site.

4. Produce necessary documentation (diagrams, mappings, photographic images, orthographic drawings and models) to record and communicate site analysis findings, and for further use in the coming design stages.

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URBAN FRAMEWORK - PROPOSALS

COMMUNITY LIBRARY

SENTUL

INTRODUCTION

This project, 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.

URBAN NEXUS
CONCEPT: SHIFTING DISPOSITIONS

CURIOSITY IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE. IN THE JOURNEY WE CALL LIFE, MAN KIND HAS DRIFTED APART FROM THE INBORN NATURE THAT RESIDES WITHIN HIM THAT YEARNS FOR KNOWLEDGE. MODERN SOCIETAL NORMS AND THE DISORGANIZED URBAN MATRIX’S HAVE ENDANGERED CHILDREN’S BASIC RIGHTS FOR READING AND SHIFTED THEIR WAY OF BEING CREATIVE. IMMERSING ONE’S TIME IN A BOOK THESE DAYS SEEM TO BE A WASTE OF TIME AS LIFE HAS BEEN MADE EXTRMELY FAST PACED DUE TO TECHNOLOGY AND THE ABUNDANT AVAILABILITY OF IT. THROUGH THIS LIBRARY, CHILDREN, ADOLOSCENTS AND PARENTS ALIKE WILL BE ENCOURAGED TO ESTABLISH A CULTURE OF LEISURE READING. A NEW LIBRARY SYSTEM WHERE EVERYONE FROM ALL RACES CAN COMMUTE FOR A COMMON PURPOSE OF KNOWLEDGE AND BOOKS, TO BE ENGULFED BY THE LOVE OF READING, YET IMMERSED IN THEIR INTIMATE IMAGINATION OF THE BOOKS, WHERE TRANSPARENCY AND EXCHANGE OF INTERACTION AND VISUAL CONNECTIONS INSPIRE EACH OTHER IN THE LARGE READING POD VOID OF THE LIBRARY.