Shi Jie
- Dec 20, 2020
- 2 min read

[ CITY BY LIVING ] - Final Year Project 1c - ‘Urban Living Room’ + Integrated Project 2b

Hi, I am Yeo Shi Jie, 0330176.

Subsequent to Project 1b Schematic Design phase, students are required to further develop and finalize the scheme for the Urban Room / City Room project. A fully resolved and develop design scheme with the incorporation of environmental strategies and technological resolutions, tectonic and poetic exploration. In this phase, students will be guided with workshops and a series of lectures focusing on poetics, tectonics, and sustainability and building safety compliance. The workshops will be on Environmental & Technology (E&T) to further enhance the passive cooling strategies and structural concepts and design to realize the effect of structure and materiality in enhancing the user experiential qualities of a building besides its aesthetic and structural purposes. As a final year student, the level work expected should demonstrate critical thinking skills, structural sense sensitivity to key issues of the environment, compliance with law & regulations, explorative and workability. The students are expected to come up with a comprehensive and clear final design presentation aligning to the objectives of the project and studio direction.

Objectives:

1.  To consolidate an understanding of the holistic nature of the architectural design process, to a given degree of detail, with emphasis on design as an integrative process, drawing as appropriate on previous subjects of the program.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Propose architectural design responses and strategies to further justify the position and programme through a series of analytical diagrams and models.

2. Generate a design with a good level of understanding of design codes, environmental, technological strategies tectonics and poetics. Emphasizing effectivity, sustainability, buildability and efficiency.

3. Establish a good level of understanding on materiality and detailing as means to capture experiential, aesthetic and innovative qualities of the design.

4. Consolidate a comprehensive understanding of design into a holistic architectural presentation and summing up design as an integrative process.

Final Design Execution:

Overall Board Layout

i. Introduction - Narrative, Design Concept, Massing Strategies Diagrams etc.

ii. Approach - Street View

iii. Isometry - Surrounding Immediate Contexts

iv. Exploded Axonometry - Programmes & Levelling

v. Sectional Perspective - Interior Spaces & Activities

vi. Site Plan - Neighboring Contexts

vii. Elevational Drawings - Exterior & Building Contexts

viii. Floor Plans - Spatial Layout & Plannings

ix. Sectional Drawings - Interior & Activities

x. Interior Perspectives - Tectonics & Poetics

xxi. Environmental & Technologies - Sustainability & Building Systems

Facade Systems

a.Perforated Metal Facade - helps to diffuse the hot direct sunlight especially from the east and west-facing facades, simultaneously, solving the issues of glare and overheated with minimized solar heat gain yet maximizing the natural daylight during the mid-day.

Roofing Insulation

b.R.C. Insulated Roofing - Reducing the U-Value of R.C. Slab Roofing by adding a layer of thermal insulation to mitigate the heat trapped in the interior spaces for achieving thermal comfort.

Passive Design Features:

- Preserving the existing surrounding landscapes and integration of new strategic landscaping within the building helps to mitigate the urban island effect.

- Water features located at the prevailing wind direction to direct the wind and create evaporative cooling towards the building as natural ventilation strategy.