The community-based services in CSI module for SABD are to expose students to the real community living in the real-life situation. We are to cooperate as a group for structural, culture, and environmental improving activities in the communities of various of different socio-economic status and social groups. The series of community services are offered as student strengthening project, we are given the flexibility to pick and to execute the task in the most ideal way, within the budget and time limitation given. As architecture student, we were then required to propose and execute design answers to handle the analyzed issues.
Food & Culture
Food and Culture is an elective module which aims to examine and explore how the act of food preparation and consumption influences spaces and place-making in architecture through the act of research and on site experiences. The emphasis is on the processes of experiencing, capturing, diagramming, and identifying the spatial relationship of food culture within the community that shape its identity and of their built environment.
Project 1 : Experience and Capture
In this project, we were divided into groups of 7 where students are required to record their observation and findings in images and videos. By the end of the assignment, they are asked to collect the data, select and filter through the appropriate ones to be presented in the format requested. They will be able to show their perspective on food and culture in relation to their research findings by the end of the assignment
VIDEO REPRESENTATION
RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Project 2 : Interpretation & Analysis
For Assignment 2, the students will be translating the data collected and research into a visual representation of the chosen subject matter. Analysis of the data will be presented in forms of diagrams and short essays. To complete the whole research process, students are to present their findings in the end of the semester.