Design Studio III

Architecture – This studio applies all principles learnt in ARU241 Dwelling and Neighbourhood Design to design dwellings and their aggregation into buildings and clusters fulfilling the meaning of home, and considering social, psychological and cultural aspects of everyday life, the variation in user needs by age, sex and ability, and innovative housing typologies and layout design that achieves ‘appropriate, adaptable, and affordable’ homes and residential environments for diverse household structures and lifestyles. It observes national building codes that apply to residential buildings.

Urban dimension – Planning and designing residential areas as a synthesis of inter-scale relationships between neighbourhood, street block and dwelling, applying multi-layered street typology classifications, safe and inclusive open spaces, achieving different degrees of publicness to balance insider-outsider levels of community and group privacy, community needs and territorial claims. It applies urban design and landscape design principles that pertain to the residential area open space typologies and in-between spaces. It follows national and international guidelines of sustainable neighbourhoods, mixed use, efficient urban densities, multi-modal transportation principles and liveable cities to enable users to save time, money and effort while achieving daily needs in a safe environment that promotes community building.