SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & DESIGN
Project 2a
Site Analysis
&
Concept development
Society, culture, history, memory and the landscape of a particular place echoes the meaning of that ‘place’, or its ‘genius loci’. These qualities will inform the architectural concept and generators for Project 2. In Project 2, the design brief calls for an architectural response toward the sense of place with a strong engagement and relationship to the site and programmatic requirements. The first assignment for Project 2 requires an analysis of the site context as a starting point. It is a fundamental need for any design project as it will suggest a series of parameters to suggest architectural solution, one that will be appropriate to the place and its meaning, and contributes to its context. The site needs to be understood, in both intuitive and personal ways, as well as quantitative and measured means. Techniques to record and understand the site are varied, from physical surveys to qualitative aspects of experience and personal interpretation of the place.
Task 1 HISTORICAL RESEARCH / TRACINGS OF MACRO SITE
Task 2 SITE CONDITIONS & DATA COLLECTION OF MACRO & MICRO SITES
Task 3 SITE ANALYSIS OF MACRO & MICRO SITES
Task 4 PERSONAL INTERPRETATION (Individual Work)
Task 5 SITE RESPONSE & CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT (Individual Work)
Project 2a
Site Analysis & Concept Development
Project 2a -Site Analysis
Project 2a -Concept Design
Reflection
This semester was different from last semester where there are more workshops and lesser projects, I’m glad that I could focus more on one project with the same topic given rather than a few which was like the last semester. . I liked the idea of workshops that slowly introduced us to the topic step-by-step, starting from understanding the proposed site, then the site responses. continue with basic structural system and lastly materials and environmental sustainability, which I feel is very crucial in my learning curve. I had fun learning and to get the feedbacks from lecturer and tutors, I believe that this way will drastically improve absorption of information and the passion to learn because it is easier for us to digest chunks by chunks rather than a bulk of informations.