PROJECT 2

STRUCTURE AND BODY: MATERIALS, ANTHROPOMETRIC AND ERGONOMIC EXPLORATION 1:1 BAMBOO ACTIVITY STRUCTURE

For Project 2, students are to design and construct a 1:1 structure for a specific activity, in groups. The structure will be placed in a real dormant green space to activate its use. Students will be working with Bamboo and be required to understand the nature and characteristics of the material and demonstrate basic knowledge in construction. Students will explore construction details, e.g. joints, joinery and structural quality with other supporting materials (rope, steel, tensile fabric). Students are to develop your design through a series of workshops, tests and investigations involving scaled study models, exploring architectural elements and principles (learned from Project 1) and incorporating anthropometry and ergonomics into the 1:1 structure. This project explores the notion of how architectural design can impact a space and its users and how one can be an agent of change within the context of architecture.

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THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROJECT:

• To introduce and create an awareness of anthropometry and ergonomics and relating it to form and space.

• To introduce basic understanding of structure in general, design principles and architectural terminologies on application to spatial and form configuration.

• To create and work on a structure installation and understand material, quality of space, human scale, and articulation of form.

We were tasked to build the structure for the special needs children at USJ18.