Project 2 : Community Library of Brickfields

 For the rest of the semester, students concentrated on designing a community library within an urban infill site, which as known as Brckfields. The design of the library was to consist of appropriate architectural responses that address the aspects of the urban street context and user behavioral patterns as discerned and analysed in the Preliminary Studies.

Apart from developing an appropriate formal and elevation strategy in response to the character of the street, the design has taken into consideration a holistic application of structural, spatial, functional and environmental requirements to address the user needs for a community library. The community library's design development of this project has included an introduction to the legislative restrictions that impact an architectural scheme, the integration of lighting and acoustic design, as well as the design exploration and detailing of the façade and building envelopes that was coherent with the architectural language of the overall design project.

After 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