Architectural Design Studio V
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 community library 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 community library and architectural responses for urban infills.
PROJECT 2: COMMUNITY LIBRARY
This final project concentrates 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 Project 1.
