JAELLE LIU

A PERSONAL SPACE

PROJECT 1

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INTRODUCTION

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Project 1 deals with user experience that requires students to design a personal space which in intended for a specific user based on an in-depth study of the user's need. It is to develop awareness of environmental sustainability in a design and student's ability to meet the imperative and inter-related social needs. In addition, the project will prepare students to programmatic requirements of specific group of users for Project 2.

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OBJECTIVES

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• To develop awareness of environmental sustainability in architectural design

• To develop the student's ability to meet the imperative and inter-related environmental and social needs, as well as make poetry with the buildings

• To further develop understandings on human scale, proportion, ergonomic and materiality.

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LEARNING OUTCOMES

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• ​Identify and analyse environmental qualities and contextual needs of a site (human environment within an architectural space)

• Apply ideas of environmental sustainability (gained from precedent studies, ESD and Building Science 1 in architectural design)

• Design and create architectural spaces with considerations of environmental poetics in relation to the basic natural context and existing building context (harness environmental qualities of the site to inform design) which impact on users' experiences

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FINAL SUBMISSION

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• 2 A1 boards - Landscape format (to be printed separately)

• 1 Model (scale to be decided upon discussion with respective tutors)