ARCH2140_June 2024 - Transit Pod

TRANSIT POD

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This project embark students on the journey of the Three School of Thoughts; aiming at structuring the way we think and process our thoughts, navigating from a single idea seen through various perspectives and methods. Students will be tested on all three schools to broaden their horizon beyond simple precedent buildings.
Precedent projects will provide you with insights into each school of thoughts that you are designing with. Refer to these precedents to align your ideas & thoughts to each school of thoughts.

THREE SCHOOL OF THOUGHTS

TECHNIC

The science or art of construction, both in relation to use and artistic design. It refers not just to the "activity of making the materially requisite; construction that answers certain needs, but rather to the activity that raises this construction to an art form."

CIVIC NARRATIVE

An architectural narration of significant events, characters or contexts that induces the sense of belonging to a place or particular community, evoking the search for identity and recollection of memory from the past.

POETIC

The position in which architecture yields beyond their intended part, and is able to reach the users on deeper emotional and spiritual level. An architecture that ‘move’ people through beauty or deeper meaning beyond functional and aesthetic requirement

PROJECT PARAMETERS
The TRANSIT POD has these characteristics:

SITE is within the compound of IUKL, anywhere deem suitable for its purpose
PURPOSELESS or PURPOSEFUL, the Pod can be designed for habitation or simply as a statement. It can be a point of change, to meet, to greet, to exchange ideas, to observe, to play, to shade, to market, to sell, to buy etc.
The name TRANSIT suggests that the Pod becomes a transit point between the Academic Blocks of IUKL (any blocks) to the non-academic areas of IUKL (Ikram Mosque, De Centrum, Unipark Condominium, Sports Courts, etc). How and why students transit is entire up to each designer.
You will be designing THREE (Yes, 3!!) Pods, each one with its specific intention driven from the idea of Transit, seeing though each School of Thoughts. Each Pod must be developed until Schematic stage, portraying all elements required to explain your body of thoughts.
SIZE of the POD:
- The estimated footprint of the Pod is about 20sqm, but it is really unspecified.
- Your Pod could be a parasite on an existing building, or buried underground, or floating on air if you know how. Just make sure that human can access/enter & exit/passthrough the Pod.
- It is however, a small project, with very limited timeframe, so be wise and don't outdo yourself.
Upon the CONCLUSION of this project, the most succesful Pod design will be used in the final project as the catalyst of ideas, including the same School of Thoughts that will be carried through the entire second project.

PROJECT FORMAT

PRESENTATION: 2 x A3 Printed, Landscape Posters FOR EACH POD DESIGN (6 POSTERS TOTAL FOR 3 PODS) , containing:
- Project Title
- Concept Statement - containing the issue(s) the Pod addresses, and how the user will use/benefit, and why does it matter.
- Site Plan (1:500) showing the location of the Pod, and why is it there.
- 3D images / perspectives of the Pod - Can be generated by CAD application, or manual sketches with precedents as reference. Super-impose human figure(s) to let us understand the scale of your Pod.
Submission in PDF format. Please see Submission Tab for Submission Folder.
- 6 pages in 1 file
- File Name: Student Name_Transit Pod_ARCH2140 (June 2024)

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