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Location
Telegraph Pole House, Langkawi
Semester 2, 2019
Project One (Group)
Architectural Diagramming
In this project, students will be working with bamboos and to understand the characteristics of this special material and how it can be used in their design. Students will be learning about the bamboo life's cycle, joints, joinery and structural quality.
After understanding about the properties of bamboos completely, students will be amalgamating their design intention into their 1:1 structure with anthropometry and ergonomics of a banal activity that is being carried out in daily life. At the end of this project, students will be presenting their 1:1 tectonics to the panel in explaining the key terminologies that have been applied in their structure. Their learning outcome will be relating the idea of design intention in anthropometrics and ergonomics to space and its experiential qualities
Project Brief
Architectural Diagramming
pole dancer
Study of the Telegraph
Pole House
In a group of 5, we had to create analytical diagrams about a residential project handed to us, the Telegraph Pole House by WHBC Architects. We had to identify the architect and analyze their work. Analysis were focused on the architect’s intentions based on immediate site context (sensory, climatic, natural and man-made features etc.) and how these intentions were reflected via architectural principles. Models were also made to further enhance the understanding of the data analysis.
After our research and analysis of the Telegraph Pole House, we came to the conclusion that it was an incredibly well built and designed vernacular house. With the use of the telegraph poles as building structure, the building is also innovative and sustainable with its material use and is a fantastic interpretation of the vernacular Malaysian house.
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