ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IV
This module consist of 8 credit hours and is led by instructors Ar Nazmi and tutors Ar Fadzwin, Ar Alina, Ar Edward, Ar Hazazi and Ar Shahira.
This module emphasize on ‘experiencing space and place’ in architecture. In the subject, students are introduced to, firstly, an exploration of spatial typologies and poetics in architecture; and secondly, the concept of neighborhood and community. The design work explores the plan-section integration to achieve architectural form that is tectonically expressive, functional, and responsive to its site.
MY PROJECTS
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PROJECT 1: DISABILITY EXPERIENCE PAVILION
Project 1 is a group project (3 students per group). This project deals with the understanding of material poetics in relation to user experience. It is to showcase architectural design informed by material use, environmental sustainability awareness in relation to user needs and the activities involved. It is also to inculcate understanding of basic building construction; how structural and architectural spatial design, tactile quality of materials and how they are put together to achieve spatial and formal quality.
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Project 2A: Site Analysis, Site Response and Design Concept
Initiating the engagement of the ‘Environment and Community’, the Architectural Design IV for August 2022 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.
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PROJECT 2: Wellness Center PLUS
Project 2 calls for the design of a Wellness Center PLUS within the Kepong Botanical Gardens, bordering the suburban neighbourhood of Taman Ehsan. We are required to provide full design proposals incorporating findings from precedent studies and site analysis. We will generate narratives that respond to the environment and community as user group within the given context and explore environmental poetics of building enclosure’s design solutions that reduce environmental impact utilizing various complex typologies of spatial organisations and a variety of passive strategies for sustainable design.