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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO IV
SEMESTER 4
PROJECT 1 : RE-PLAY - CHILDREN'S OUTDOOR PLAYSCAPE
Project 1 deals with the basic action of ‘play’ and leisure at the smallest scale through the understanding of repurposed materials and their relationship to the crafting of spaces for children experience. Students will be required to design Re-Play - children's outdoor playscape, which is intended to showcase specific material(s) for a proposed set of activities. It is to develop awareness of environmental sustainability through the responsible and innovative use of reclaimable and repurposed materials in relation to user needs.
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PROJECT 2A : SITE ANALYSIS
Furthering the exploration of ‘Leisure and Architecture’, the project calls for the design of a House of Leisure - Community Recreation Center within an urban park environment. Students are required to provide full design proposals incorporating findings from precedent study and site analysis. Students will generate concepts that respond to context and leisure related programs and explore design solutions that reduce environmental impact utilizing clustered spatial typology and passive design strategies. The design should contribute to and merge harmoniously with the context and provide interesting spatial experience for the users through sensitive and thoughtful architectural intervention.
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Based on each own tutorial group, we are to first analyse our site - Taman D.R. Seenivasagam, Ipoh. Before we start to design, we have a site visit to this park and analyse the site accordingly. We look into the park's history, circulation, climate, vegetation, demography, views and vistas in order to come out with design considerations on which programme is suitable for the house of leisure designed.
Final boards
PROJECT 2B : HOUSE OF LEISURE - COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTRE
The design for the House of Leisure must take into consideration the activities and social life already existing on site, and contribute in meaningful ways to its context. The design must be based on a multi-layered understanding of contextual issues and weave together sustainable environmental strategies and user and programmatic needs into poetic architectural spaces.
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