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This course helped us understand how architecture can respond to environmental forces while using resources efficiently. We explored how different building systems come together to shape both the experience of a space and its performance.

Rather than treating systems like water harvesting, solar energy, ventilation, lighting, and reuse as separate technical elements, we learned to see them as integral to the architectural concept. By working with these systems together, we explored how buildings can develop spatial character and experiential depth through the overlap of environmental and infrastructural systems.

For this course, we were asked to design a community library along Old Kabristan Road by exploring how environmental systems, material choices, and spatial strategies shape experience. The exercise invited us to imagine the library as four intertwined conditions, a Library for Play, a Library for Knowledge, a Library for Work, and a Library for Care. Through this, students were challenged to generate built form by integrating overlapping building systems that respond to climate, resource efficiency, and community use. 

I reused debris from the construction sites and garages around the site as a building resource to design a library for Rest and Play. This portfolio presents the project and its development.