JAELLE LIU

JOURNEY OF THE FIVE SENSES

PROJECT 1:

POETIC ARCHITECTURE

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INTRODUCTION

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Spatial organisation is a key consideration for architects in architectural design. The study and exploration of different spatial organization methods is important in design because it informs human occupation, behavior, and experience within architectural spaces. Writers such as Francis D.K. Ching labeled this as architectural ‘order’ whilst Alexander Purves called this ‘the formal patterns’.

Project 1 is an introductory project by which you are required to explore issues of spatial typologies and poetics through simple design exercises. Working in groups of 4-5 students, you are to propose 2 schemes for a Walkway Space themed ‘journey for the 5 senses’. You are required to design the space in the form of semi-open architecture by using two contrasting spatial types of your choice. There is no specific site for this design work. The story of your design should translate the literatures given by your tutor, and it should be informed by precedents studies.

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LEARNING OUTCOMES

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• Identify and explain different spatial types in architecture, and how they inform spatial use and experience

• Identify and analyze case studies to inform the design project

• Create tectonic expressions of different spatial typologies which impact on the uses and experiential conditions of space

• Generate design through conscious consideration of section-plan relationship with considerations of human scale, natural light, materiality and textures

• Produce drawings (both 2D and 3D), modelling and verbal presentation to communicate and visualize architectural design and ideas.