Project 1 Journey of the Five Senses
Spatial organisation is a key consideration for architects in architectural design. The study and exploration of different spatial organization methods is important in design because it informs human occupation, behavior, and experience within architectural spaces. Writers such as Francis D.K. Ching labeled this as architectural ‘order’ whilst Alexander Purves called this ‘the formal patterns’.
Project 1 is an introductory project by which you are required to explore issues of spatial typologies and poetics through simple design exercises. Working in groups of 4-5 students, you are to propose 2 schemes for a Walkway Space themed ‘journey for the 5 senses’. You are required to design the space in the form of semi-open architecture by using two contrasting spatial types of your choice. There is no specific site for this design work. The story of your design should translate the literatures given by your tutor, and it should be informed by precedents studies.
Project 1A
Project 1B
Project 2 Site Analysis & Concept Development
Society, culture, history memory and the landscape of a particular place echoes the meaning of that 'place', or its genius loci. these qualities will inform the arcitectural concept and generators for Project 2. In this assignment, the design brief calls for an architectural response towards the sense of place with a strong engagement and relationship to the site and programmatic requirements.
The first assignmnet for Project 2 requires an anlysis of the site context as a starting point. It is a fundamental need for any design project as it will suggest a series of parameters to suggest an architectural solution, one that will be appropriate to the place and its meaning and contributes to its context. The site needs to be understood in both intuitive and personal ways, as well as quantitative and measured means. Techniques to record and understand the site are varied from physical surveys to qualitative aspects of experience and personal interpretation of the place.
Project 2A Site Analysis
Project 2B Concept Development
Project 3 Visitor Interpretive Centre
Project 1 introduced and explored the formal and poetic articulation of articulation of architecture in a site-less condition. Project 2 established a design concept as a driver for architectural development. in Project 3, the design brief calls for an architectural response to design an INTERPRETIVE CENTRE emphasizing a strong engagement and relationship to the site, spatial experiences and programmatic requirements.
We are required to design an interpretive centre that will serve 2 purpose, to provide a physical point of reference with visual significance that keeps alive the culture / history / memory / essence of the site and also to provide accommodation to house and display relevant material and interpretive material for public access and information.
