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Design Studio 5

PROJECT 1

Preliminary studies

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 site context is Jalan TAR, KL. There is a real life scenario to establish the possibilities for a Community Library to connect to the urban community, the young adults as being the user group. The studio project is collaborative with POW Ideas on one such scenarios on Jalan TAR.

The major issue being the fading of cultural heritage that engages the local communities. The contemporary trend is to fade this rich cultural heritage rather than amplifying it. The solution is in design employing critical approach to the notion of ‘content’ as a purposeful narrative to powerful questions relevant to the context (Low, 2010). To begin with, the question is:What are the possibilities for the community library to connect to the young urban community at the street scale?

PROJECT 2

Final Project - Community Library

From now on, 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.