LING YUAN MING
ARCHITECTURE E-PORTFOLIO
ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO 5
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PROJECT 1
Preliminary Studies
Project
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.
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Objectives
1. To have an overview of the formation of cities and introduce basic concepts of urban design in relation to
architectural design
2. To introduce and implement basic methodologies of urban studies
3. To investigate the role of community libraries in traditional and contemporary urban societies
4. To examine various examples and architectural responses for urban infills
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After completing this project. i had conducted case studies and site analysis to generate an understanding of the physical and cultural context and development of urban environments. I have also determined and able to describe the role of a community library in a contemporary urban setting.Not only that, I have examined and established appropriate architectural responses and strategies for designing within an urban infill site. Finally, my team and I have produced 5 presentation boards with diagrams, mappings, photographic images, orthographic drawings and models.
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.
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Objectives
1. To take into consideration key aspects of urban design and context in relation to architecture
2. To develop an awareness and basic compliance to Design Codes and Statutory Requirements
3. To emphasize the importance of elevational context and composition in developing architectural design
4. To implement and explore the conceptual, schematic and design development phases in an architectural design project
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FINAL PROJECT
Urban Infill Community Library
Upon completing this project 2, I have succesfully produced a design outcome for a community library that is site-specific through its formal, cultural, legislative, structural and environmental design responses. I leanrt to apply basic knowledge of urban architectural typologies, infill design strategies, and community library programming and demonstrated fundamental knowledge and awareness of local design codes and regulation. I am able to design within the constraints of feasibility and in response to basic design codes and statutory requirements. Not only that, I utilised 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. Lastly, I managed to produce drawings (both 2D and 3D), models and presentations to verbally and visually communicate my architectural ideas and scheme.
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Tasks
Site Analysis
The purpose of the Site Analysis is to observe and record the site’s current condition, and to collect additional information to be used in the initial design conceptualization and strategy phase. Key concepts and themes to be discussed in relation to the analysis include: Way-finding (5 Lynchian Principles), Typology and Morphology, Figure/Ground Mapping, Patterns of Movement and Use, Human Behaviour, Street Culture
Precedent Studies
Each group is required to study and analyse one example of an urban infill that is a community library. In vanalysing this example, students should develop an understanding and awareness of:-
(1) What is an Urban Infill?
This investigation is to help you understand what an urban infill is, and what are the architectural strategies (massing, spatial planning, façade design, etc.) adopted that are necessary in response to its physical context and functional programme. Investigate what were the regulatory laws that the architects were required to comply to as well.
(2) What is a Community Library?
In this module, we shall define the community library as a “place which provides public with access to books and periodicals acts as social meeting grounds for an urban/suburban community”. This part of the Precedent Study entails an investigation into a relevant example of a community
