PROJECT 1:
Personal Space for the elderly.
Project 1 deals with user experience that requires students to design a personal space which is intended for a specific user based on an in-depth study of the user’s need. It is to develop awareness of environmental sustainability in a design and student’s ability to meet the imperative and inter-related social needs. In addition, the project will prepare students to programmatic requirement of specific group of users for Project 2.
Objective:
1. To develop awareness of
environmental sustainability in
architectural design.
2. To develop the student’s ability to
meet the imperative and inter-related
environmental and social needs, as
well as make poetry with the buildings.
3. To further develop understanding or
human scale, proportion, ergonomic &
materiality.
Task:
Students are to design an outdoor space for a specific elderly. The space must be multipurpose and must accommodate the selected user’s activity at the same time ensure privacy and individuality.