Design Studio 4

This studio aims to apply sustainability to designing spaces for large public communities. Consideration is given towards the functionality and accessibility of the design and how it interacts with the context and users. Qualities such as the materiality and poetry of space and structure are also important aspects which come together to create an architecture complex.

Project 1: Green Info-shelter: Exploring the Environment Poetics

The project is to design and propose an info-shelter which serves to provide information on on-going events in the Center of Arts and Design CODA in campus. It also allows students to get shelter while waiting for pick-up. Site analysis is conducted to understand the site and context, while we focus on the elements that are prominent on site and for our design. Ideas of sustainability were included where climate aspects such as wind direction, sunpath, rainfall and temperature were taken into consideration to provide a shelter that functions with various climatic discomforts. Exploration of materials was conducted where we analysed the practical usage of rattan as a local resource and also as a versatile material.

Project presentation Water-colored manual boards with model and detail model	Model with site context Form of symbiosis which forms a continuity in movement but linking existing structures.	Model and site context Perspective of the site and model. Shade is provided by the rattan shelter.
Front elevation of model Movement of focus where an entrance to CODA is framed by the shelter.	Final presentation boards	Presentation layout
Closeup of board Site plan and floor plan	Drawings of shelter Closeup of drawings, perspective, section and elevations.	Structural detail model Model showing the steel framing that supports the rattan structure.
Roof plan	Mock up model with human figure	Presentation layout

Project 2: Nature Appreciation Center

[Proposal]

Following project is a proposal for the final project, which is to design a Nature Appreciation Center located in Belum Rainforest Resort. When designing in a natural site, an understanding is developed where environmental sustainability in architecture design becomes an important requirement adhering to the concept of a NAC. Environmental needs were given into consideration by designing in accordance with the site context extracted from conducting site analysis as a class. The presentation can be found in the following button.

Spatial poetics inspired by the site and contour movement were addopted to create a comprehensive user experience throughout the NAC. While the building needs to appeal through design, basic requirements toserve the function and program has to come first, for which to include info spaces, learning center, communal hall and refreshment area. Given that the design is for the public, accessibility for the disabled is also highlighted where ramps and wheelchair lifts are included in the building. The clustered spatial typology is then conveyed in manual boards and model.

Site Analysis Presentation

Proposal

Precedent Study	Site Analysis	Concept proposal
Program proposal	Site and roof plan	Elevation/ Section

Final Presentation

Final model Bird's Eye view	Presentation board Concept and perspective	Presentation board Floor plan
Final presentation board Elevation and sectional drawings	Final Model	Final model Plan
Final model Lookout point/ deck	Final moddel Shadow texture	Mock up model 2 Change of form and textures
Model making process Ribs of main structure	Mock up model Initial mock up model perspective	Final model Reception and entrance
Mock up model Initial model perspective	10866813_10202934473274141_1316417610_n.jpg