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Design Studio 4

 

In Semester 4, themed “engaging environment and community”, the studio explores design by harnessing environmental qualities and conditions for human and environment sustainability through a project with a specific community of users within a given context.

 

The projects involve studies of precedence on design projects that are responsive to the environmental conditions and sustainable issues. Using the precedent studies, students explore the environment poetics of the building enclosure that respond to the basic natural context such as the sun, wind, heat, cold, energy issue and existing building context (which has clustered built forms for example community centre, nature appreciative center, research centre).

 

Considerations should be given to the complexity of the programme, site topography and vegetation, socio-cultural events, and variety of passive strategies for sustainable design. The design work should contribute to and merge harmoniously with environment and the site, and provide the best of experiences for the community of users. Students are required to demonstrate applications of knowledge gained from Environmentally Sustainable Design and Building Science 1 modules from prior semesters and integrate research from Asian Architecture module.

 

Objective of this module is to:

  1. To develop awareness of environmental sustainability in architectural design.

  2. To develop the student’s ability to meet the imperative and inter-related environmental and social needs, as well as make poetry with the buildings. 

  3. To emphasize on space planning of clusters of buildings.

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