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Designing with Architectural Principles, Materiality, Context and User

INDIVIDUAL (60%)
TASK

In this final task, students will design a 150sqm Hideout Retreat at the National Botanical Garden, Shah Alam, incorporating the Nature Observation Post from Project 2. The retreat must include resting, working, and recreational areas, as well as supporting spaces like toilets and a pantry. Designed for 4 people, including the student, the retreat should accommodate a 2-3 day stay and align with the tropical site context, demonstrating architectural principles, materiality, and constructability to create a unique and memorable spatial experience.

The objectives of this project are to introduce architectural design concepts, user-specific requirements, space, form, and function, and to raise awareness of site-specific design and site analysis.

Final Model
Final Outcomes

User studies have been conducted using diagrams to explain type of users’ needs, requirements, and anthropometrics as well as consideration of spaces.

Then, design intentions and precedent studies have been done abundantly to help in designing a hideout retreat with correspond to the immediate tropical site context, exploring design which makes the architecture unique to its landscape and activity.

- Diagrams
- Site Plans
- Floor plans
- 2 Section View
- 4 Elevation View
- Perspective Drawings
- Roof to Floor Section
- Special Detail

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