Architecture Design Studio V focuses on the theme of place-making for the urban community. It aims to explore urban conditions pertaining to movement, events and spaces within urban street context and to provide appropriate architectural solutions in designing a community library for the city’s inhabitants. Students will begin by conducting preliminary studies in that introduces them to the studies and context of urbanity through the analysis and documentation of the current urban condition through legibility analysis of a selected inner-city site. This will be done in concurrence with the research of urban infill and community library precedents, and their architectural responses. By the end of the module, students will have developed an appropriate scheme for an urban contemporary community library within a dense inner-city street environment that takes into consideration an understanding of applicable current legislations, building technologies and cultural imperatives of the site and its surroundings. The definition of place-making is seen as a proposal that is sensitive to the context, local character and distinctiveness of the space. The students are to design a community library as an attempt to place-making. The studio runs through two projects: stage 1: urban study on place making aspects; stage 2 comprises of architectural strategy and design development. The students are to derive interpretations for a community library in order to relate and offer to the community in the urban context.