'Sakhli'
 

The course focused on the understanding of Typology in Design and its intrinsic relationship to Spatial Patterns of Life and Living and Material Phenomenologies. Further appreciating architecture as an intrinsic part of cultural production informed by historic processes as well as everyday practices. The sites chosen for field study included historic settlements, which have evolved from settled social, cultural and climatic forces over years and have a coherence in architectural form.  The design brief involved an interpretation of the idea of home and inhabitation leading to an insert in the neighbourhood, ranging from rebuilding a house for contemporary inhabitation to the facilitation of home through an extended programme through an understanding of type, spatial patterns, material assemblies and phenomenological readings.