Ernest Portfolio
Project 1
Site Analysis & Design Response establishes an understanding of the context for intervention. In assigned tutorial groups, students will conduct site visit to identify the physical as well as the intangible qualities that shape the character of the site. Engagement with site users will establish the needs of the community at site. As the Design Response of the Site Analysis stage, students will work with their tutorial group to draw up a new plan for the demarcated site area through the design of a Kebun Komuniti Plan, which will serve as the base for Project 1B: Architectural Allotment and Project 2: P3KU Kebun Komuniti Center.
Project 1B
Produced in parallel with Project 1A: Kebun Komuniti Plan, Project 1B deals with the understanding of materiality in relation to user experience in the Kebun Komuniti Plan. Within the context of each tutorial group’s Kebun Komuniti Plan, students will break up into smaller groups (3-4 students) to design an Architectural Allotment, which is intended to showcase architectural form as a construct of materiality for a proposed set of activities related to the cultivation of plants. The exploration of themes centred around the cultivation of plants together with requirement for seating, shading and storage will relate to the programmatic requirements in Project 2.
Project 2
The project calls for the design of a P3KU Kebun Komuniti Center within the Kebun Komuniti Plan proposed for P3KU Urban Farm in USJ18 Park. This site is currently the location of a non-profit project for disability teens employment. Students are required to provide full design proposals incorporating findings from site analysis and precedent studies. Students will generate narratives that respond to the environment and community within the given context and explore environmental poetics of building enclosure’s design solutions that reduce environmental impact utilizing various complex typologies of spatial organisations and a variety of passive strategies for sustainable design. The design should contribute to and merge harmoniously with environment and site and provide the best of spatial experiences in fostering a sense of community
