Jaelle Liu | Portfolio: Architecture

ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO V

ARC60306

PRELIMINARY STUDIES

PROJECT 1:

JALAN TUANKU ABDUL RAHMAN, KUALA LUMPUR.

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.

OBJECTIVES

To have an overview of the formation of cities and introduce basic concepts of urban design in relation to architectural design.
To introduce and implement basic methodologies of urban studies.
To investigate the role of community libraries in traditional and contemporary urban societies.
To examine various examples and architectural responses for urban infills.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Analyze the site character and identify conditions of the urban streetscape and urban behavioural patterns.
Analyze case studies to gain understanding of architectural response for urban infill sites and for spatial programming to inform the design project.
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.

COMMUNITY LIBRARY

PROJECT 2:

URBAN INFILL

INTRODUCTION

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 a narrative on architectural strategy in response to the relevant questions pertaining to community and its context, 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.

OBJECTIVES

To take into consideration key aspects of urban design and context in relation to architecture.
To develop an awareness and basic compliance to Design Codes and Statutory Requirements.
To emphasize the importance of elevational context and composition in developing architectural design.
To implement and explore the conceptual, schematic and design development phases in an architectural design project.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Demonstrate the fundamental knowledge of Design Codes and Regulations.
Explore plan-section and elevational studies to resolve relevant aesthetic, construction and environmental issues in the design development phase.
Produce a design outcome that encompasses the appropriate site-specific architectural responses through its formal, cultural, legislative, structural and environmental design solutions for specific urban issues.
Produce drawings (both 2D and 3D), models and presentations to verbally and visually communicate architectural ideas and scheme.