Project 1 : Preliminary Studies

The preliminary studies is a preparatory assignment that focuses on investigating basic notions of the city, and learning from examples of community libraries around the world. The assignment aims to firstly introduce students to basics in urban design and its relation to architecture, and secondly, studying and determining the programmatic function, societal role and spatial layout of a community library and architectural responses for urban infills.

the site we were assigned to do a detail site analysis is called Brickfields, an upcoming downtown area in Kuala Lumpur where have a strong indian background and culture. the preliminary studies comprises of three components : site Documentiation, Site Analysis and Precedent studies of Urban Infills and Community libraries. The site documentation and site analysis had equipped students with a firm understanding of the site for the community library's design. Besides that, the precedent studies provided an insight into architectural responses for designing an urban infill contemporary community library .

Through this project i have learnt :

1. To have an overview of 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