SCHOOL of ARCHITECTURE and BUILT ENVIRONMENT B. Sc. (HONS.) in ARCHITECTURE
PROJECT 2: 25% Literature Review Towards Architectural Spatial Concepts INTRODUCTION
AR 518 & AR 718 Integrated Architecture Design Project (Year 3- UNIT C) July - November 2022 Aainaa Suhardi
Unit C uses narrative inquiries, illustrations, and models to approach design from a thinking and research perspective. Following the site cataloguing of Kuala Lumpur’s confluence and the development of the urban intervention proposals in P1, the project now challenges individual architectural concepts in an attempt to expand your understanding of design, spatially. In the context of current crises of Kuala Lumpur (and issues of urban traffic, city making and flash floods), these concepts should be centred on community identities and public engagement by being adaptive, resilient, and progressing into the liveable futures Unit C sets to provide a place of conversation on the series of anthropological (communities and cultures), urban morphological (history, connectivity and building typologies) and urban landscapes. The notions of urban intervention, public space design, climate impacts and heritage preservation are further developed in this project, which will also determine your individual’s project design intent, direction and project outcome of final project (P3). All the tasks and assignments issued throughout the semester must be interrelated. The research theories, site investigation and analysis, design interests carried out in P1 & P2 are vital in developing your final proposal.
The models of abstraction of the site reaction produced by Group 1,2,3 & 4 of Unit C 2022 07/11SCHOOL of ARCHITECTURE and BUILT ENVIRONMENT B. Sc. (HONS.) in ARCHITECTURE
The main references for the design project:
1. Jeff Speck (2013). Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time.
2. Donald Watson (2011). Design For Flooding: Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design For Resilience And Climate Change.
3. Aldo Rossi (2011). The Architecture Of The City.
Alternative references are;
1. Maganjeet Kaur and Mariana Isa (2015). Kuala Lumpur Street Names: Guide to Their Meanings and Histories.
2. Shuhana Shamsuddin (2011). Townscape Revisited: Unravelling The Character of Historic Townscape in Malaysia.
3. Gordon Cullen (2010). The Concise Townscape.
4. Kevin Lynch (1960). The Image of The City.
5. Jane Jacobs (1961). The Death and Life of the Great American Cities.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
UPON COMPLETION OF THIS MODULE STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO
AR 518 Architecture Design Studio 05
AR 718 Integrated Architecture Design Project 06
CLO2- Apply digital communication skills to communicate design intention and strategy.
CLO3- Demonstrate the application of Uniform Building By Law and local authority requirement in design proposal.
CLO1- Study in-depth understanding of site context and impending issue. (A3, PLO4)
CLO2- Demonstrate design Strategy in response to social/economic/cultural issues with program(s) and architectural intervention. (P4, PLO6)
PROJECT 2A- Speculative: Literature Review towards Architectural Spatial Concepts in a Conceptual Model or a Conceptual Drawing (2 weeks)
You need to produce a thorough research based on selected literature reviews via drawing or model of an A1 size to illustrate your architectural reaction based on the following themes: FLASH FLOOD, CITY MAKING & URBAN TRAFFIC. These narrations act as a vital methodology for driving architectural thinking through reading and design exploration. You will be asked to interpret your narratives based on the chosen theme and design procedures with the aim of imagining your own speculative design solutions. Ultimately, you will learn how to define the setting and building design, and to create a compelling architectural concept.
AR 518 & AR 718 Integrated Architecture Design Project (Year 3- UNIT C) July - November 2022 by Aainaa Suhardi
SCHOOL of ARCHITECTURE and BUILT ENVIRONMENT B. Sc. (HONS.) in ARCHITECTURE AR 518 & AR 718 Integrated Architecture Design Project (Year 3- UNIT C) July - November 2022
Literature review summaries in the form of narrative drawings and model by Dora Amelia Tanjung (UC 2021-07/11) entitled ‘City as the System of Meru’
Speculative drawing & model on the theme of ‘urban morphology’ by Christopher Phang (UC 2021 07/11) entitled ‘The Layering City of Meru’
Prepared by Aainaa Suhardi
SCHOOL of ARCHITECTURE and BUILT ENVIRONMENT B. Sc. (HONS.) in ARCHITECTURE
AR 518 & AR 718 Integrated Architecture Design Project (Year 3- UNIT C) July - November 2022
PROJECT 2B- Micro site analysis- individual site strategies- A1-sized drawings and schematic models showing design intentions (2 weeks)
Design a checklist of site planning strategies, which is listed below as guidelines to prepare individual planning strategies for project 3. Each student must examine, select and critically analyse the relevant factors that are significant and relevant to your individual proposed programmes & site strategies. In this task, you must already select and demarcate the exact location for your Project 3 Building (Site 1 or Site 2) and compose your Planning Strategy in the format of minimum 1 A1 size drawing. Use diagrams / drawings / cartographic mapping / photo-collage to illustrate your design strategies. Other than that, to support these drawings, you shall produce a series of schematic building models.
The competition entry of Parc de la Villette by OMA
SCHOOL of ARCHITECTURE and BUILT ENVIRONMENT B. Sc. (HONS.) in ARCHITECTURE
AR 518 & AR 718 Integrated Architecture Design Project (Year 3- UNIT C) July - November 2022
Site planning strategies requires systematic consideration of the following contents:
1. Zoning and usage of the building
2. Building and Planning Authority guidelines
3. Natural Physical Features (Landscape / vegetation)
4. Man Made Features (Infrastructures)
5. Circulation, Transportation, Node
6. Sensory, Sense of Place. Human and Cultural Environment and Climate
9. Building Typology
10. Proposed Programmes (Activities & Building Usage)
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
*To follow Teaching Plan dates and details:
URBAN STRATEGY (PROJECT 2A) Literature review (2 to 3 nos of journals, articles or books)
Week 7 - Development of literature framework and the speculative drawing or model
Week 8 Finalising the speculative drawing or model
SITE PLANNING STRATEGY (PROJECT 2B)
Week 9 Development of the site planning strategies
Week 10 Tutorial & overall P2 presentation