Design Studio 5 - Project1 ：Preliminary Studies

Design Studio 5

Project1 ：Preliminary Studies

For this project, we are required to do site analysis and produce tangible and intangible data into presentation within our own tutorial group. We have to site visit and site study at our selected sites located at one of the main road which is Jalan sultan between two selected site. The two selected are located in two street, there are Site A in Jalan H.S. Lee and Site B in Jalan Petaling. Besides, we are also required to do precedent studies based on the community libraries around the world. The aim of this project is to focus on urban study in order to find opportunities to promote the presence of community library in relevent context. Our site study would basically need to focus on the urban form, urban context and also the existing communities surrounding our site because we will have to design our final project which is community library to fit in to the site context.

The objectives of the project are as follow :

1. To have an overview on the formation of cities and introduce basic concepts of urban design in relation to architectural design.
2. To introduce and implement basic methodologies of urban studies.
3. To investigate the role of community libraries in traditional and contemporary urban societies.
4. To examine various examples and architectural responses for urban infills.

Design Studio 5 Project1 ：Preliminary Studies from Alfred Tan

Reflection:

In this project, we are able to analysis the urban site base on the evidences and studies on the selected site so that the data will help us in developing the programs for our community library. Through this study, we exposed to the importance of urban context and the relationship between each building and architecture style. Besides, the precedent studies is so important that it will guide us to some law and regulation of service such as fire staircase to help us in designing our community library.