Design Studio II

Main Topic: Public Realm and Street Design

Architecture - Space design with an open collective program (markets, meeting points, transportation hubs, etc…), applies concepts and methods taught to develop user-sensitive context-specific design with a basic technical and structural logic, translating systems of user activity settings into the required supportive environment based on the functional requirements, while applying rules of geometry and proportion, structural and constructive systems, materials, and light.

Urban dimension – Street as a first level of urbanity, designing the street segment around the site with emphasis on sidewalk design and landscape, pedestrian crossings, multimodal accessibility to the site, and open space landscape with a deliberate awareness of user activity settings and flow as the units of place-making. This course directly applies the knowledge acquired in ARU232 Theory I: Environment and Behaviour Studies to guide basic urban interventions, streetscape configuration and enhance user experience.