DESIGN STUDIO 4A: PERSONAL SPACE FOR THE ELDERLY

Objectives of Project

• To develop awareness of environmental sustainability in architectural design
• To develop student's ability to meet the imperative and inter-related environmental and social needs as well as make poetry with the buildings.
• To further develop understandings on human scale, proportion,ergonomic and materiality

Learning Outcomes of this Project

• Identify and analyze environmental qualities and contextual needs of a site (Human environment within an architectural space)
• Apply ideas of environmental sustainability (gained from precedent studies, ESD and Building Science 1 in architectural design
• Design and create architectural spaces with consideration of environmental poetics in relation to the basic natural context and existing built context (harness environmental qualities of the site to inform design) which impact on users’ experiences.

Task

For a start, students are to identify several main aspects of the structure:

• Who is it for?
• What size should it be? Anthropometrics?
• Portable?
• Where will it be put? Does it needs to be stored?
• Construction method?
• Function?
• Special fittings?
• Ergonomics?
• Time?

Interim Boards

Final Boards: