In Design IV, emphasis was placed on sustainable and passive design. In Design V, students are now expected to incorporate numerous sustainable elements into each and every project.
The first project was for a library in the up-and-coming city of Songdo-Dong, Incheon, South Korea. Although the building was primarily a library, the building also housed a café, conference rooms, a children's center, and an auditorium. The design for this project was highly influenced by surrounding architecture, and featured diagonal shading fins that stretch along the building's façade.
The second project was for a UPS training center in Louisville, Kentucky. Heavily inspired by Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby, this training center was equipped with offices, classrooms, a cafeteria, exterior loading docks, and a package car bay. The exterior was finished with the classic UPS colors with the grand entrance placed diagonally to the structure. Students were also required to create a full set of working drawings for this project.
The final project was a design-build project where students were to create a carboard chair using only cardboard and dowels, no adhesives were allowed. My group and I created a chair that was inspired by a mix of free-flowing structure as well as a rigid exo-skeleton.
Above are the posters for these projects.