ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 5 | architecture

Project 1 - Preliminary studies (Group)

The study has to be done in two levels of complexity, namely, the macro and, with more focus to, micro contexts. Whilst the macro study is about the role and how the location fits into the city. In micro study we are required to make a comprehensive study on urban form, activity and movement-pattern. ‘Legibility Analysis’ (Bentley, et.al. 2013) which is a method through the exploration of Kevin Lynch’s Elements of legibility (Lynch, 1979) is employed here as a study method. We are required to establish possible opportunities (such as routes and attractions) to sustain and to offer legibility by the community library.

Macro studies on South Klang

Project 1 - Individual project

This project is an on-site exercise where students have to document the physical and the immediate context of the site. It can be from an element as broad as the urban planning itself down to the smallest detail of the ornaments used in the building.

Design proposal / strategy

Project 2 - Individual project

We are required to individually interpret the idea of ‘community library’ and come up with architectural strategy for the same. This will be in-reflection to the issues and inspirations we found in the Project 1 in order to offer to character, continuity and enclose, quality of public realm, ease of movement, legibility, adaptability and diversity in the city. Architecture is about geometry. Exploration on form-typologies such as linear, perimeter and diffused in terms of layering, subtraction, over-lapping etc is compulsory at this stage.

This community library intends to revitilize the local community by providing contact and share point to youngster and elder, the two biggest communities impact to site. The common point of interest would allow the two communities to fuse and build a unique identity for the site, something that has been lacking. Hence, the design for the community library focuses primarily on accommodating activities and spaces that appeal to the people on site, allowing the community to run their own library.