Project 1 : Defining and Documenting a Project
Site Analysis: 4th Mile Beachfront, Port Dickson
To establish context for Project 1 and 2, students shall conduct data collection and analysis of the given context, focusing on understanding the qualities of the natural environment and well as the needs of the community.
Learning Objectives:
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To identify and analyze environmental qualities and contextual needs of a site (relation between the design and any surrounding environment) that inform the socio-spatial organisation of a user-specific community.
Our Site:
Began as a small Malay village inhabited by fishermen and traders. It used to be first known as 'Arang', a reference to a carbon mine in the area. Around the 1820s, tin ore was discovered in Lukut town about 7km north, leading to an influx of Chinese migrants into the area. In the 1880s during the colonial era, a British official named Sir Frederic Dickson turned Arang into a port for transporting the rich tin ore deposits. Eventually, it is now a beach resort destination.
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Project 1: Floating Placemarker
Students will be required to design the Floating Placemarker, which is intended to showcase architectural form as a construct of materiality for a proposed set of activities so as to convey contextual meaning of the place as it assumes the role of a local landmark. It is to develop awareness of both cultural and environmental sustainability through the responsible and innovative use of materials in relation to user needs within the landscape.
Learning Objectives:
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To identify and analyze environmental qualities and contextual needs of a site.
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To apply ideas of environmental sustainability.
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To design and create architectural spaces with consideration of environmental and material poetics in relation to basic natural or built context.
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Final Project: Community Swimming Centre
This brief proposes a Community Swimming Centre. Taking their understanding of the contextual condition of the site and precedent studies as points of departure, students are to come up with intentions, design directions and programs based on strong contextual position that will then be developed into concrete design proposals that address and respond to the environment and the needs of the community.
Learning Objectives:
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To resolve basic building construction, materials and passive building services with sustainable environmental considerations.
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To design user-specific spaces (for a selected community) through various complex typologies of spatial/built-form organizations with considerations of spatial efficiency, sustainable environmental poetics, user experiences within a composition of built-forms in the tropical suburban with residential community context,
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To communicate design through effective and expressive visual and verbal presentation to peer, tutors and architects from industry.
