ARCH. PORFOLIO
CHAN SIN YIE
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Sustainable Design Policies and Regulations
This module introduces students to environmental issues and provides some in-depth understanding of the complexities and influences that built environment causes to the natural environment. The module intent s to instill environmental literacy and understandings of policies related to sustainable design and practices.
Assignment 1
In this assignment, you are to form groups of 6-8 members and write a research paper and presentation of your chosen theme with minimum 5000 and maximum 7000 words. Each group is to analyze and extract the important ideas from one of the themes highlighted below. The first part of the essay will be a review of the related text for the chosen theme. Using these ideas as the theoretical framework of each particular theme, students are to analyze a particular researched topic highlighting the relationship between the theoretical ideas and the selected works. That should form the main part of the essay, which is the analysis of completed works. Themes will be assigned by tutor and topics shall be finalized upon discussion with tutor
Assignment 2
Exploring local architecture or built environment (BE) responses to specific SDG goals and targets
This project allows you to explore how architecture can provide the basis towards meeting several Sustainable Design Goals. Designer can provide basic ideas and proposal for regulation that makes it possible for sustainable communities. Working in partnership, designers can facilitate the open dialogue to provide solutions as a way forward. The 17 SDG goals define the challenges that need to be addressed to achieve a better and more sustainable future. Leaving no one behind, the world must move towards achieve these goals by 2030. This includes the built environment particularly the architecture practice that is associated with every goal, importantly not at aspirational level, but through realized (real life) buildings, settlements, cities, and strategies locally. To evident this statement tangibly and to demonstrate how built environment/architectural responses to these goals you are required to document realized cases of architecture, planning, and structures with the aim of understanding the Goals as they relate to architecture/built environment. Each one of the documented cases will form a basis to start a conservation on how the built environment can contribute to a particular goal.