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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO IV
The studio examines design in Semester 4, with the theme "engaging environment and community," by utilizing environmental features and conditions for human and environmental sustainability through a project with a specific group of users within a specified setting. The tasks entail researching prior design projects that are sensitive to environmental challenges and sustainable practices.
Students investigate the environmental poetics of the building enclosure using precedent studies, which respond to the basic natural context, such as the sun, wind, heat, cold, energy issue, and the existing building context (which has clustered built forms, such as community centers, nature appreciation centers, and research centers).
PROJECT 1A. Site Analysis and Design Response (Master Plan)
The rich greens that make up the center of this farm are molded by the urban farming techniques that have been meticulously created and applied throughout time. In addition to providing food and sustenance for the neighborhood, these greens also act as a platform for artistic expression and creative inspiration.
But what really distinguishes this farm is how it incorporates and involves the neighborhood in its operations. The farm has made a genuinely unique sense of inclusivity and belonging by including autistic teenagers as members of their task force.
In a nutshell, the potential for solid growth of urban farming in P3KU unfolds with the environment embracing binding societal values. The land conceals the priceless traits of their micro-world. The pathway's flowing outline illustrates how both able-bodied and impaired individuals are perceived, fostering links and connections between the present and the future. Through featured terrace plants, an existing statement is reechoed within the lands of greens and flourishing of nature as a result of strengthening the slope in a sustainable manner.
PROJECT 1B. Architectural Allotment
A grasp of the context for intervention is established via site analysis and design response. Students will visit the site in their designated tutorial groups to identify the concrete and intangible characteristics that define the location's character. The requirements of the community at the site will be determined through interaction with site visitors. Students will collaborate with their tutorial group to create a Kebun Komuniti Plan as their Design Response to the Site Analysis stage. This plan will serve as the foundation for Projects 1B: Architectural Allotment and Project 2: P3KU Kebun Komuniti Center.
CO-EX
Lines, and blocks, both are the basic elements of design, each with its temperament.
CO-EX creates a perspective symmetrical view of lines and blocks on each side, establishing harmony as well as a union of contrast.
The free energy of the line, the same as the free energy of the children, complies with the solidity and stability of the blocks and the community, united to create a harmonious space of P3KU.
CO-EX, cooperative exploration, is to create a space, an opportunity for the visitors of P3KU and the disabled children to communicate and learn more about the urban farm.
It also acts as a small planting space with multiple types of planting methods, a small storage area, and a resting space for people to work as well as sit back and enjoy the atmosphere of P3KU.sonics System (Wick System)
PROJECT 2. Kebun Komuniti Centre
A P3KU Kebun Komuniti Center is to be created as part of the project's Kebun Komuniti Plan for the P3KU Urban Farm in USJ18 Park. A nonprofit project for the employment of teenagers with disabilities is now taking place on this site. Students must submit comprehensive design concepts that include information from site investigation and precedent studies. Students will create stories that respond to the environment and community within the given context and explore the environmental poetics of building enclosure design solutions that minimize environmental impact using a variety of complex typologies of spatial organization and a variety of passive design techniques. The design needs to enhance and blend in seamlessly with the surroundings and the location, offer the best spatial experiences, and promote a feeling of community.
"NESTING CARACOL" is a community center that skillfully weaves together connectedness, urban farming, and inclusivity inside a suburban sanctuary. As lush foliage seamlessly integrates with the brick-as-cladding facade, nature softly embraces the architecture, blurring lines and enhancing the senses presenting a garden community center that skillfully weaves together connectedness, urban farming, and inclusivity inside a suburban sanctuary.
SELF REFLECTION
A step closer to understanding how each of our actions and decisions affects the lives and behaviors of the community, Studio 4 was a wonderful, fun, fun semester where we actually got our hands on a project that serves real stakeholders in real life. This project places more emphasis on the design concept and justifications of decisions with regard to how these methods can connect with the overall framework as a continuation and improvement of curvilinear and organic design gestures.