ARCH 341 INTERMEDIATE DESIGN STUDIO A - THOMAS SQUARE DESIGN
: 3rd Year Undergraduate Studio
Building and site design with an emphasis on site development, analysis, and climatic response. Introduction to sustainable design, land use ordinances, description and delineation of property and land features, and urban and community design influences.
The goal of this final project is to make a design proposal of 1) MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART and 2) HAWAIIAN MEMORIAL within THOMAS SQUARE. Its design phases include 1) SITE ANALYSIS & PRECEDENTS STUDIES, 2) individual DESIGN PROBLEM DEFINITION: SITE DESIGN & PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, 3) SCHEMATIC DESIGN – MIDTERM REIVEW, 4) DESIGN DEVELOPMENT, and 5) PRODUCTION: DOCUMENTATION + MODELLING – FIANL REVIEW.
Selected Student Works: Spring 2016 - Stacey Villarino, Spring 2015 - Junho Jin
Our understanding of where we live
is not so philosophical but rather pragmatic
Understanding urban environment with quantifiable measures has been the source of debates
Well then becomes the one of heated discussions … now possiblly the one of main trends