Project 1 is a preparatory assignment that focuses on investigating basic notions of the city, and learning from examples of community library around the world. This assignment aims to firstly introduce students to the basics in urban design and its relation to architecture, and secondly, studying and determining the programmatic function, societal role and spatial layout of a community library and architectural responses for urban infills. 

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The Preliminary Studies comprises of three components: Site Documentation, Site Analysis, and Precedent Studies of Urban Infills and Community Library. The Site Documentation and Site Analysis will equip us with a firm understanding of the site that we will be working with throughout the semester, while the Precedent Studies will provide an insight into architectural responses for designing an urban infill community library.

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From this project, we would be able :

1. To have an overview of the formation of cities and introduce basic concepts of urban design in relation to architectural design

2. To introduce and implement basic methodologies of urban studies

3. To investigate the role of community libraries in traditional and contemporary urban societies

4. To examine various examples and architectural responses for urban infills