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.
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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.
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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.
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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.