02

Cultural Artifact as Generative

Structure - Information Station
Introduction
While Design 1 and Design 2 during First Year introduced the
fundamentals of architecture within the context of nature
and sub-urban areas, Design 3 brings you to the more
challenging urban context. Issues of studies during this term
focuses on the aspects of culture and history while also
addressing questions of scale, measure, materiality,
methodology, program and mapping.
However, as much as the urban experience is determined by
grand tributes to art, culture and government, it is the
smaller, utilitarian structures of everyday existence that can
provide the most unexpected delights. Micro-architecture is
not so much about whimsy or experiment as about
necessity. The architectural objects that make a city or town
function and that every inhabitant uses to come into contact
with impart, and in some ways help to determine, the
character of the cities around the world.

Objective
The objectives of this assignment are:

To conceptualize architectural investigations and to

scrutinize ideas drawn from cultural sources.

To synthesize the conceptual and contextual phenomena

into a design.

To develop architectural spaces emphasizing scale and

measure relative to human perception.

To further apply / extend the micro-type design into the

macro-type.

To see drawing and modeling as technique that is, as

unique means of representing ideas and approximating
real conditions.

Project Duration
Percentage
Project Scale
Project Type

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3 weeks
20%
10m2 space
Individual

Project Procedure
This studio focuses on cultural artifacts; how a physical
construction at any scale may contain or reflect ideas. A
film, piece of literature, a piece of music, or a piece of
choreography that describes the local culture, is used as the
initial point of departure. Spatial issues emerging from
analysis and discussion of the artifact will program a set of
architectural elements that will be developed in an abstract
and volumetric space. Your task then is to develop this space
into an information station that will be used to offer
information of Sabahans culture (your cultural artifact) to
visitors.
For this, you are given a site; a lot in a green urban park
located in the heart Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

KKSB 2118 Rekabentuk Senibina III : 2015/2016

Department of Architecture : Faculty of Engineering + Built Environment : UKM

Assignment Format
Information Station Design
Conceptual Design (Initial Design)
Choose a local cultural artefact. Using your studies and
analysis, design a conceptual scheme for the information
station. The size for the station shall be 10 to 12 metre
square.
Design Development
Upon the consent of the lecturer, develop one of the schemes
for the final design.
Design Considerations

Clarity of idea
Clearly communicate
choosing a concept.

your

individual

intention

in

Appropriateness of Form
Is the design fit to the context according to your site
analysis?

Richness of Content
Does the design solve the main issue of the site?
Does your concept practically and aesthetically serve the
purpose required in the design?

Submission
Your are required to produce a minimum of one A1 (or two
A2) size landscape format sheets which composed of:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Plans, Elevations and Sections @ 1:25

Model @ 1:25
Description (100 words) + Diagrams
Perspectives / Axonometric (at least 1)
Photos of models Sequence of design development

Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the project, the student should
have:

An awareness of the process of visual-verbal

transformation in the shaping of the physical and
conceptual environment.

A deeper appreciation for culture, history and aesthetics

in our surrounding environment.

Assessment
Marks will be given for the following criteria:

Completion

Innovativeness and Creativity

Appropriateness of Form

Graphic Presentation + Oral Presentation

KKSB 2118 Rekabentuk Senibina III : 2015/2016

Department of Architecture : Faculty of Engineering + Built Environment : UKM

KKSB 2118 Rekabentuk Senibina III : 2015/2016

Department of Architecture : Faculty of Engineering + Built Environment : UKM