ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IV
[ARC60208]
Education
Project 1
SITE ANALYSIS
nitiating the engagement of the ‘Environment and Community’, the Architectural Design IV for April
2024 begins by placing the environment and people at the centre of our awareness of how
architecture can foster a sense of community for the present as well as its sustainable future.
Project 2
LEARNING POD
Project 1B deals with the understanding of materiality in relation to use and experience. Materiality
is seen as a setting for communal activities to convey meaning and associations as well as a
function of structure and construction. Students will be required to design a Learning Pod, which
is intended to showcase architectural form and materiality for a proposed set of activities. The
exploration of themes centered around the notion of learning as well as spatial experience of users
in this project will relate to the programmatic requirements in Project 1C
Project 3
LEARNING CENTRE
The project calls for the design of a Neighbourhood Learning Centre within the proposed Neighbourhood
Park Plan (Project P1A) at USJ14 Park. Students are required to provide full design proposals
incorporating findings from site analysis and precedent studies. Students will generate narratives that
respond to the environment and community within the given context and explore the environmental
poetics of building enclosure design solutions that reduce environmental impact utilizing various complex
typologies of spatial organisations and a variety of passive strategies for sustainable design.