Studio 5

Studio 5 is a module that emphasizes the idea of ‘place-making for the urban communities. Students will undertake a studio-based exercise that deals with urban blocks within a dense urban environment. The emphasis in this module will be on exploring the notion of ‘place-making’ and architecture that respond to this notion. Developing your design thinking as an architectural narrative, forming proposals that are poetic expressions of ideas. Projects will not promote complex programmatic and organizational problems but will rather allow in-depth exploration and interpretations. The final outcome is an architectural design that is responsive to its urban character. In their preliminary design work, students engage with urban studies and strategy/concept development to develop an appropriate program and massing studies responding to the urban conditions. Subsequently, the major project involves the development of a design scheme that engages with the spirit of urban places and the everyday life of the urban community. The design work explores the plan-section-elevation relationship to achieve an architecture that acts as a vibrant block exploring the maximum potential of the urban space.

Project 1a

Preliminary Studies - ‘Townscape Appraisal’

In this project 1, we are being assigned to a group of 10 people. This project which is the first project, Preliminary Studies, is a preparatory task that investigates the character of a place and architecture for place-making through the ‘Townscape Assessment’ exercise. The project introduces students to the fundamentals of urban design by assessing the ‘content’ of the urban context within the proposed site. The purpose of this project is to evaluate the character, identity, and uniqueness of a town and urban region in order to identify opportunities for producing responsive architecture design within urban context and place-making led urban space in the given site. To investigate the role of multi-user typologies in traditional and contemporary urban societies, and examine various examples and architectural responses for urban blocks.

Presentation Board