This assignment focuses on exploring the city's fundamental concepts and learning from world precedents. The purpose of this assignment is to first expose students to the fundamentals of urban design and its relationship to architecture. Second, it will investigate and determine the programmatic function, societal role, spatial layout, and architectural responses for urban blocks of a Community Centre. The Preliminary Studies are divided into three parts: site documentation, site analysis, and precedent studies of urban blocks and community centres (for Creative City). The Site Documentation and Site Analysis courses will provide students with a solid understanding of the site with which they will be working this semester. Simultaneously, the Precedent Studies will provide insight into architectural responses for designing a Community Centre for Creative City [CCCC] on an urban block. The Preliminary Studies will result in the production of site documentation materials a thorough analysis of the site toward a sense of place, and a detailed case study of a relevant urban block and precedents.