DESIGN  STUDIO 5  [ARC 3118]

Students will undertake a studio-based exercise which deals with urban infill within a dense urban street environment. The first project requires students to identify a dormant infill area within an existing street and to propose a new program to re-activate the site. The small scale of the project allows students to focus and explore the urban street character and the development of elevation as part of the design process. Subsequently, the second project engages with issues of living and working in the city. Students are required to present a formal architectural design strategy developed from the urban response. The design work explores the plan-section-facade integration to achieve architectural form that acts as a vibrant infill exploring the maximum potential of the urban space. The intentional complexity of the design studio will enable students to begin to explore their own architectural position. This course is integrated with Building Science 2 where students are required to consider lighting in their design.

Project 1

PRELIMINARY STUDIES

The Preliminary Studies is a preparatory assignment that focuses on investigating basic notions of the city, and learning from examples of urban infill market-places around the world. This assignment aims to firstly introduce students to the basics in urban design and its relation to architecture, and secondly, studying and determining the programmatic function, societal role and spatial layout of a market-place and architectural responses for urban infills.