Nabeel Ali Joomun
Architecture Studies
Architecture Design Studio 5
Project 1 Preliminary studies
The Preliminary Studies comprises of two components: urban study through site documentation and analysis, and Precedent Studies of Urban Infills and Community Library. The urban study will equip students with a firm understanding of the site they will be working with this semester, while the Precedent Studies will provide an insight into architectural responses for designing an urban infill community library.
The site is at Jalan Sultan in Kuala Lumpur. The study has to be done in two levels of complexity, namely, the macro and micro contexts. Whilst the macro study is about the role and how the location fits into the city. In micro study the students are to make a comprehensive study on urban form, activity and movement-pattern. ‘Legibility Analysis’ (Responsive Environments, Bentley, et.al.) which is a method through the exploration of Kevin Lynch’s Elements of legibility (Lynch, 1960) is employed here as a study method. The students are to establish possible opportunities (such as routes and attractions) to sustain and to offer legibility by the community library. They will also begin to demonstrate an understanding of urban issues pertaining to quality of public realm, character, ease of movement, legibility and diversity.
Project 2 Community library
From now on, students will concentrate on designing a community library within an urban infill site. The design of the building is to consist of appropriate architectural responses that address the aspects of the urban street context and user behavioural patterns as discerned and analysed in the Preliminary Studies.
The students need to interpret the above question in their own way, pertaining to a) contextualisation and b) personalisation aspect they found in Project 1. Architecture becomes, from there on, as a narration of an answer to the question. For the rest of the semester, students will concentrate on designing a community library within an urban infill site. The design of the building consist of appropriate architectural responses that address the aspects of the urban street context and user behavioural patterns as discerned and analysed in the Preliminary Studies.
Project 2 Centre for the elderly | Final