In Semester IV themed “engaging environment and community”, the studio explores design by harnessing environmental qualities through projects with a specific community of users within a given context. The projects involve studies of precedents that showcase responses to environmental conditions and sustainable issues as well as innovative interpretations of the given program. Considerations should be given to the complexity of the program, site topography and vegetation, socio-cultural events, and variety of passive strategies for sustainable design. The design work should contribute to and merge harmoniously with environment and the site, and provide meaningful architectural experience for the community of users. We are required to demonstrate applications of knowledge gained from Environmentally Sustainable Design and Building Science 1 modules from prior semesters. The studio runs through two projects: project 1, Children Learning Capsule: exploring shipping containers as reusable material (group project); project 2, a Community Support Centre For Single-Parent Families. We are to explore architectural intervention that is sensitive to context and the needs of the community mentioned.