Architectural Design V

The Preliminary Studies is a preparatory assignment that focuses on investigating basic notions of the city, and learning from examples of Community Centre 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 an Community Centre and architectural responses for urban blocks.

This project aims to deduct a position for finding architecture and produce architectural design strategy. We are to individually interpret the idea of ‘Community Centre’ and come up with architectural design strategy in-reflection to the issues and inspirations in the Project 1a in order to offer to character, continuity and enclose, quality of public realm, ease of movement, legibility, adaptability and diversity in the city.

This project aims to develop an architectural narration for place making in the city and to perform an integrated design. Architectural strategy should be resolved for form, activity and circulation, through technical integration.