ARCASIA STUDENTS’ ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN COMPETITION 2020
THE COMPENDIUM OF RESILIENCE BY DESIGN
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ARCASIA STUDENTS’ ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN COMPETITION 2020
THE COMPENDIUM OF RESILIENCE BY DESIGN
Theme of the Competition List of Nominated Finalists GOLD AWARD SILVER AWARD BRONZE AWARDS TOP 10 SHORTLISTS NOMINATED FINALISTS
THE COMPENDIUM OF RESILIENCE BY DESIGN
Launching Launched poster of the ARCASIA STUDENTS’ ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN COMPETITION 2020
The Architects Regional Council Asia (ARCASIA) is a Council of the presidents of the National Institutes of Architects of 21 Asian countries that are members of ARCASIA. Due to unprecedented Covid-19 Pandemic situation, this year ARCASIA has decided to organize an Online Design Competition among the individual students of ARCASIA member countries. This ARCASIA Student’s Architectural Design Competition 2020 is organized by the ARCASIA Committee on Architectural Education (ACAE) Secretariat.
The objective of the ARCASIA Student Competition is to provide an arena for students from ARCASIA member countries to participate in ARCASIA activities. It is an opportunity for students from different cultures to exchange and share idea on particular design issue that has been raised by ARCASIA every year.
PANEL OF JURORS
CHAIRMAN Ar. Gyanendra Singh Shekhawat Chairman, ACAE
JURY
JURY
Ar. Nela De Zoysa Representative from ACAE [Zone A]
Prof. Pechladdha Pechpakdee Representative from ACAE [Zone B]
THEME OF THE COMPETITION
RESILIENCE BY DESIGN The current pandemic has highlighted social inequities. Some are social, cultural; some are spatial, territorial; some are environmental and so on. COVID-19 has taught us about how cities / neighborhood / spaces need to plan, build and design differently in the future. What social resiliency means in the context of a Pandemic and Public Health Crisis.
One should venture beyond the ordinary boundaries of Architecture – not only be aware of one’s surroundings and events but also attempt to seek answers.
The student is to identify a Public Space in neighborhood / City / Local Area like Park, Central Courts / Street Corners / Waterfronts / Piazza / Streets or any such Public Place – Open or Covered and to design, redesign, reinvent, recreate that place attempting to find Resilience keeping in mind this New Normal Situation post COVID-19 Pandemic.
The project should show us how “an Architect” can bring about a “Resolution” in a “Resilience”, and demonstrate the architect’s role as a thinker, a reformer, an activist, and a visionary.
JURY Ar. So Ching Representative from ACAE [Zone C]
CONVENOR Ar. Adrianta Aziz Deputy Chairman, ACAE
CO-CONVENOR Ts. Idris Taib Member, ACAE
EXHIBITION AND PUBLICATION OF ENTRIES The organizer is entitled to display or exhibit on any date and in any venue the entries or any part thereof, and publish including the report of the category events together with any selected entries.
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No identification marks shall appear on the graphic layouts and the Design Statement. The participant(s) shall keep his/ her/their entry confidential and take necessary steps to ensure it is not disclosed to any third parties throughout the competition until the public announcement of results.
Pedestrians on street pre-Covid-19 pandemic For illustration purpose only | Image by Alina Kuptsova from Pixabay
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES
Intellectual Property Rights belong to the author(s), but upon submitting an entry to the category, the participant declares, warrants, agrees and undertakes that the submission (Intellectual Property Rights inclusive) would be used for promotion/ publication of the event.
The selected entries sent from all the NIAs of ARCASIA will be judged in accordance with the broad assessment guidelines by the Jurors. The decision of the Jury Panel shall be final and binding on all parties concerned and decisions cannot be appealed against. Participants do not have the right to request for access to the Jurors’ comments or records on the adjudication
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Acoustic Shell Design
Korea Institute of Registered Architects
KIRA
02 P/Market
Korea Institute of Registered Architects
KIRA
03
The Hong Kong Institute of Architects
HKIA
04 The Pier
The Hong Kong Institute of Architects
HKIA
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The Hong Kong Institute of Architects
HKIA
06 Water Circle
The Japan Institute of Architects
JIA
07
The Association of Siamese Architects
ASA
08 On The Kad
The Association of Siamese Architects
ASA
09
Your Own Space
The Association of Siamese Architects
ASA
10
Isolation as Resilience
Institute of Architects Bangladesh
IAB
Pier_ArcAdiA
Finding Resilience
Ban Pa Sao School
LIST OF NOMINATED FINALISTS
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Fluid Mosaic Neighbourhood
Institute of Architects Bangladesh
IAB
12
Retro-Fit
Institute of Architects Bangladesh
IAB
13
Gem Promotional Center
The Sri Lanka Institute of Architects
SLIA
14
Mutualistic Living
The Sri Lanka Institute of Architects
SLIA
15
City Extension
The Sri Lanka Institute of Architects
SLIA
16
The Unfold
Society of Nepalese Architects
SONA
17
Symbiotic Healing
Society of Nepalese Architects
SONA
18
Biophilic Riverfront
Society of Nepalese Architects
SONA
19
The Invisible Facemask
Vietnam Association of Architects
VAA
20
Sharing Space
Vietnam Association of Architects
VAA
21
Resilient Transformations
Institute of Architects, Pakistan
IAP
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Pandemic Resilient Market
Institute of Architects, Pakistan
IAP
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Resilient Communal Design
Institute of Architects, Pakistan
IAP
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Flood Resilient Safe Houses
The Indian Institute of Architects
IIA
25 Socializing Space
Ikatan Arsitek Indonesia
IAI
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New Resilience of Public Cemetery
Ikatan Arsitek Indonesia
IAI
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New Languages for New Normal
Ikatan Arsitek Indonesia
IAI
28 An Edible Backyard
Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia
PAM
29
[Activ]ate
Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia
PAM
30
Abridging Us with Distance
Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia
PAM
LIST OF NOMINATED FINALISTS
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Dynamic Micro Markets
United Architects of the Philippines
UAP
32 Bahaghari
United Architects of the Philippines
UAP
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United Architects of the Philippines
UAP
34 Interference
Architects Association of Macau
AAM
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Architects Association of Macau
AAM
36 Floating Library
Architects Association of Macau
AAM
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Architectural Society of China
ASC
38 Space Game
Architectural Society of China
ASC
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Architectural Society of China
ASC
The Indian Institute of Architects
IIA
Bayanihan
Green Unit Scapes
Resolution by Mixed-Use
Interest Union
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RESILIENCE BY DESIGN ARCASIA STUDENTS’ ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN COMPETITION 2020
WINNERS
GOLD AWARD
New Languages for New Normal
MIFTAHUL JANNAH (Team Leader)
SILVER AWARD
The Invisible Facemask
HOANG NHAT ANH (Team Leader)
Ikatan Arsitek Indonesia
Vietnam Association of Architects
BRONZE AWARDS Isolation as Resilience?
TAOREM RAHUL SINGHA
Institute of Architects Bangladesh
New Resilience of Public Cemetery in Pondok Rangon
FADHILA NEURITSARI RAHMAN (Team Leader)
Ikatan Arsitek Indonesia
Bayanihan The Philipino Spirit of Unity
TIMOTHY JAMES ARAMBULO (Team Leader)
United Architects of the Philippines
Included in the historical imaginary line of Yogyakarta, Malioboro became a major shopping street and main destination in Yogyakarta. It lies north-south axis in the line between Yogyakarta Kraton and Mount Merapi, this place is significant to many of the local population. Covid-19 pandemic had a huge impact through the infection such as Droplets, Airborne, Contaminated Surface, and Feces-Oral Residue (accused by WHO), which can cause the coronavirus spreading on this place. But the economic and cultural flow that had been gone here can't be stopped either. Our awareness of this condition had to make an adaptive conceptual design called New Languages for New Normal. The design purposed to solve the problems about the limitation of common languages and activities as the impact of using a mask, taking apart, and other prevention from coronavirus spreading. Using multiple complexity design languages, this design solved the limitation to ensure that this living flow in Malioboro. Language of Sanitation innovating the system of common wash-basin to follow the minimum standard from WHO. Using a sensor-based soap dispenser and faucet, integrated with an automatic timekeeper, forces people to wash their hands with soap at a minimum time of 20 seconds, killed the coronavirus before rinsed. Another solution applied is using the hand sanitizer that Is available in the virtual signage. Language of Communication is designed for giving/gaining information without the limitation of using a mask. Using LED signage with audiovisual information consists of some features including a reminder about the coronavirus menace, a supporter to strengthen people, and a commercial advertisement.
Minimizing contact spreading between buyer and seller, the Language of Transaction adapted the “Vending Machine” idea. Using translucent material like acrylic as a barrier to all the stalls, preventing the buyer from touching all the merchandise before buying. The Language of Attraction purposed to ensure that public entertainment didn’t cause the visitor’s gathering. Using pickup and box truck, designing 2 kinds of ideas: physically with a live-action performance or virtually performing from home. Making visual background with the signage enhancing performance quality. Adapting the body language of Lesehan, the Language of Digestion combined the local activity and the responsibility of minimizing the Coronavirus spreading into a kind of modular stall design. Creating some /esehan based chair and some barrier into personal space. The barrier is used to minimize spreading with space transition, and the barrier can be folded for flexibility. Language of Position purposed as the tracking system. The systems include one-way direction guidance, step tracking, and visitor counter to reduce crowd making in pedestrians. This method can analyze and alert people to stop crowding the place. Language of Mobilization describing the transportation system for engine vehicles and non-engine vehicles (Becak and Andong). Applying § traffic management is significant to ensure the right control on Malioboro. As an example, when the Language of performance start, all the transportation is blocked on the roadway and can be used in 1-2 minute later for some space to the performer.
GOLD AWARD ENTRY NO.
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NEW LANGUAGES FOR NEW NORMAL by MIFTAHUL JANNAH (Team Leader) submission via Ikatan Arsitek Indonesia
The functioning of a city is reflected in three elements: home, workplace and social places. In that chain of operations, people go from home to work, from work to social places (e.g. bars, clubs, public spaces, ...) and then from social place to home. However, this routine has changed massively due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. People do not go to work anymore but working from home, social places are also closed due to regulation of social distancing requested by the government. As a result of this, the city has lost its inherent functioning as the link between these elements is broken.
The team proposed an innovative solution that could be replicated in many different locations. First, we created perpendicular crossings with the size of just enough for one person to limit the travel of two or more people. In order to not create tangent intersections with the remaining directions, we propose not only horizontal spacing but also vertical distance. At the intersection point, we push the altitude up and down alternately to avoid the intersection between two perpendicular lines. This helps people traveling on the route alone will not have any close interaction, but they do not feel lonely because they can completely see other people on other roads. The maximum height at these altitudes is 2.4m. The railing system will be made entirely of natural green trees to avoid the user being able to stand and touch the railing so that viruses can stick on the surface. Traffic lines staggered in a sinusoidal pattern, forming a continuous up and down walking route, limiting disruptive stops, breaking safe distances and stimulating people to enter the lower spaces.
However, the need to go to social places is still essential for people. The government can request people to maintain social distancing, but cannot limit people's communication for a long time. The proof is despite the danger in some places people still gather together. It is very difficult to control or accuse people because it is always the legitimate need of daily lives. The compulsion about physical space, living and working from home, and limited crowded activities have caused an issue in the community. Public spaces are being isolated because of the inability to adapt to the context of the pandemic and keep people safe. Therefore, we need to review the on-going issues, and restructure urban facilities and environment, to respond to similar catastrophes and diseases in the future. As the architects of the future, instead of banning we need to propose ways to create safety for people in social places by the architecture itself.
Personal spaces formed along the walkway, these personal spaces presented signs to users that the space should be for only one person. These spaces are interlocked and separated by landcapes but still ensure necessary interactions. This structure turns physical distances into something more beautiful by plants and flowers with the message: “Social distancing in a certain angle is beautiful, positive, not negative like people think. We're physically stretched, but more mentally connected than ever before.
We have chosen to treat the space for public parks because in our opinion public parks are always a top priority in the urban planning program of every city in today's world context. These spaces not only have a positive impact on people's health but also create spaces for play, entertainment as well as meeting and interacting with others.
The campaign is not solely a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The team hopes the project will have an encourage impact on how parks, or other public spaces can be adapted in an urban environment, so people can operate like normal if the same situation happens again in the future.
No specific location has been chosen as the pandemic is happening everywhere in the world but we hope this idea is applicable in any locations. The project is adaptable in terms of multidimensional space and time. Regarding the space, the project can be adaptable to the location. We hope even after the pandemic ends, the park will still operate as a normal park.
SILVER AWARD ENTRY NO.
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THE INVISIBLE FACEMASK by HOANG NHAT ANH (Team Leader) submission via Vietnam Association of Architects
So, this new narrative of resilient public space is proposed in a site, which resembles the stories of imprisonment, isolation & confinement for more than 200 years. The old Heritage structure, Sylhet central jail, was never been exposed to the public as it was serving for prisoners where their lives were confined within a massive boundary wall. In 2019, the central jail was shifted from the Sylhet city to a newly constructed place. So, the design approach initiates with a proposal of portraying this heritage realm as a public space & providing a new dimension of experiencing the old one. The global COVD-19 pandemic has confronted us with many vulnerabilities of human life. As the virus spreads via people, we are asked to maintain social distances in public spaces. Such instructions conflict with established narratives around designing successful public spaces that invite people to gather and interact. This situation is calling for attention toward new design vocabularies for public spaces to build spatial resilience against future pandemics. However, the way we define, perceive, develop, and practice "resilience" in design, often marginalize many human emotions, contextual comforts, cultural traditions, and social performances. Moreover, when different parameters of resilience are developed in the Global North and travel to the Global South and get translated into spatial designs without critical analysis, we may lose many socio-cultural aspects of public places that make our spaces different from that of the North. This project provides a critical lens toward such a notion around resilience by designing an extreme "resilient" public place that ensures the highest social distance and by juxtaposing it with an already existing, abandoned prison complex in Sylhet, Bangladesh. The objective of this project was not to design a "successful" public space but to create discomfort, uncertainty, detachments, through which we can revisit the concept of resilience from a new perspective.
The new installation adjacent to the heritage conservation complex, demonstrates to the public the freedom of movement rather it depicts the story of prisoners through spatial experience. Many confined cells are proposed & aligned with the existing complex, which provide social distancing, isolation & a new definition of architectural vocabulary of gallery space breaking the traditional one. Each cell functions as a unit gallery space for an individual, which convey the story through uncomfortable, excruciating, confining spatial dimension. Documentary on the story of the heritage will be displayed on the interior surface of the cell through a motion sensor technological system. When the cell reaches the highest peak, it pauses for some time & provides a different visual angle of the heritage & the horizon of Sylhet city through a small window. To control the vertical motion of the cells a mechanical system is also incorporated with every cell. Green electricity from living plants is generated to supply the power source for the mechanical system. As the site is located in one of the most important zones of Sylhet city, the new public space appears visually as a landmark which provide an unconventional way of experiencing the Old Heritage.
BRONZE AWARD ENTRY NO.
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ISOLATION AS RESILIENCE? by TAOREM RAHUL SINGHA submission via Institute of Architects Bangladesh
New Normal at COVID-19; is a government policy for people to continue their normal activities (not lockdown) but with health protocols. By now, lack of protocol readiness impacts higher mortality rate and causes the higher demand of cemetery as well.
The current pandemic has highlighted many aspects in life; from social, cultural, spatial, territorial, even environmental, and so on. COVID-19 has taught us about how cities / neighbourhood / spaces need to plan, build and design differently in the future. In this case, we focused on housing proposal. But instead of designing house for living human being, we planned and designed house for the dead – in the time of pandemic: A Highly Contagious Disease – New Resilience of Public Cemetery in Pondok Rangon. This New Resilience of Public Cemetery is designed as a district module that aim to be developed according to the needs and demands that are happening in the society. It may be applied in various site area as a prototype for national-scale future public cemetery; not only for COVID-19 but also other possible highly contagious disease. We attempted to apply this proposal in Pondok Rangon that considered as an ideal site: located in high density area of Jakarta, has been set by government as public cemetery for COVID-19 patient; summarized some issues about dead and pandemic that have occurred in Indonesia:
The majority of Indonesian culture which requires the dead body to be buried in the ground (no combustion process); some diseases in dead body can disappear through the combustion process, in any case it can be a shortcut, but can not be applied to every culture in Indonesia. The challenge is to make the ground-buried dead body easily decomposed. Social stigma about COVID-19 patient and dead body; the pandemic has changed some people's social views regarding highly contagious diseases, which resulted in the rejection of COVID-19's dead bodies in several cemeteries. By way of well-designated cemetery, every cemetery can be convinced to receive and deliver them in a proper way, with a funeral procession that can be witnessed by loved ones. The possibility of a similar outbreak in the future;although vaccines and drugs are being researched, it is possible that there will be other highly contagious disease in the future, therefore the development of district modules can be carried out based on sequences capacity planning. These main issues became our architectural and technical concepts in designing and embracing this New Resilience of Public Cemetery, as the final housing of living human being; by reason of death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
BRONZE AWARD ENTRY NO.
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NEW RESILIENCE OF PUBLIC CEMETERY IN PONDOK RANGON by FADHILA NEURITSARI RAHMAN (Team Leader) submission via Ikatan Arsitek Indonesia
HOW? Creating resilient urban spaces with biking infrastructure that provides an alternative way to navigate the city under unpredictable circumstances such as pandemics. As most civilizations in history, we have built our cities around bodies of water. Navigating through Pasig river, our project improves the current ferry system and enhances the urban environment with a new biking infrastructure that will reconnect the cities in metro manila.
The Filipino spirit of unity that moves you to work together so that the community will reap and share as a unit. working together to achieve a common noble purpose. WHAT? The unprecedented Covid-19 virus has affected our way of life and has exposed the flaws in our urban design environments. According to The Telegraph, the Philippines under the pandemic has experienced the longest community lockdown in the world. This has led to a myriad of social problems that has aggravated Manila’s already ongoing ‘mass transport crisis’. The suspension of public transportation in areas under ECQ forced commuters to use bicycles to go to work. It does not help that Metro Manila lacks bike lane infrastructure, which would make cycling safer and more sustainable. WHY? With a lack of mobilization, people cannot go to work nor continue their livelihoods. To proliferate the urbanization of the new normal operation, we must collectively address Manilas transportation crisis which enables the other factors of Urban design and economy to continue.
Due to the natural course of the Pasig river, Significant amount of travel time is reduced when travelling between cities. The River’s course, unlike typical road infrastructure does not involve any issues such as road right of way and traffic congestion. According to the TomTom Traffic index in 2019, Metro Manila has the 2nd worst traffic congestion in the world. The design aims to decongest major thoroughfares that will make use of bicycle highways and ferry systems that adapt this infrastructure along the existing developments. The Pasig ferry system must be fully capable of accommodating more passengers to operate reliably and consistently. The design envisions a grand central station to embark the vision of connecting and improving the entirety of the Pasig ferry Service. The design overall embraces the unpredictable by adding adaptable spaces and innovations that integrate social distancing and pandemic related non- contact space planning. CONCLUSION? Winston Churchill put it best when he said, “We shape our buildings, and afterwards, our buildings shape us.” The resilient nature of our architecture aims to reflect the resilience of the community known locally as BAYANIHAN. The Idea does not only engage transportation, but in the collective effort of all in the industry of urbanization. To empower the entrepreneurs and give courage to embrace the unpredictable through a solution that can help mobilize the masses in times of uncertainty and life’s unpredictability.
BRONZE AWARD ENTRY NO.
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BAYANIHAN THE PHILIPINO SPIRIT OF UNITY by TIMOTHY JAMES ARAMBULO (Team Leader) submission via United Architects of the Philippines
During this pandemic, public spaces have played a vital role in the health and sustainability of urban communities around the world. "
- James Delaney
People on the move during Covid-19 pandemic For illustration purpose only | Image by B_Me from Pixabay
Traditional markets are very close to our lives. But as COVID-19 intensifies, the local market opening rate is declining all over the world. Since people cannot go shopping to large stores or department stores for every meal, it is necessary to consider how to revitalize the traditional market in the community under the pandemic situation. Currently, the excellent standard for markets corresponding to COVID situation is how well each store social-distance, and how well putting masks on and using hand sanitizers. This is not an architectural solution, and simply maintaining social distance reduces the number of stores that can be opened on the same site and reduces the efficiency of land use. Therefore, architects must build circumstances where people can shop in safety and the comfortable with high efficiency of land use. So, we revitalize the market by vertically expanding the market from current single leveled linear markets, forming a park in between and providing open spaces in the city. Shifting market into ‘Parket(Park+Market)’, and the ‘Parket’ blocks the spread of viruses and minimizes user anxiety.
We introduce ‘WATER’ to accommodate many stores in social distance within a given site. The higher the humidity, the slower the virus spreads and the waterways can block people moving but the eyes can be passed through, creating an open and pleasant circulation in nature-friend site. Therefore, water is an excellent response to virus blocking and park providing in the market because it rules circulation flow and comforts. Pedestrians' moving and the form of store units, and the sales system follows the formation of waterways. We apply this system to the Seoul Central Market located in Seoul, Korea. The Seoul Central Market currently sells complex items such as instant food, groceries, clothing and furniture on the ground floor thoughtlessly following the linear layout, and the Creative Arts Center is located on basement floor. The problem is first, it has reckless zoning of stores, second, there’s no separation of cars and pedestrians. As a result, the moving of market users is complicated, and the twisted traffic and pedestrians raises the risk. So, we’d like to propose a zoning plan blocking spread of viruses. The area of traffic and goods loading-unloading will be placed underground, grocery and various daily necessities stores placed on the ground floor, and stores that are likely to be contacted by people, which is like eating instant food and engaging in art activities placed on the second floor. Store density is adjusted by floor according to risk level, and waterways and parks formed between stores provide. In the warm season, partly formed water walls give gap between stores and it blocks viruses and offsetting urban noise as nature elements. In winter, curtain-type Louver walls are installed to prevent water walls from freezing. Starting with the Seoul Central Market, the ‘Parket’, we designed is expected to become a model of the urban markets around the world that should be prepared for the Pandemic situation in the future and revive the fading traditional markets.
SHORTLIST ENTRY NO.
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P/MARKET; SHIFT MARKET INTO PARK WITH WATERWAY | submission via Korea Institute of Registered Architects
Theoretical position Cultural position “Architecture can be a medium through which human and wildlife discover mutualism” Project position Understanding “Mutualistic Architecture” to accommodate and enrich the interrelationship between the broader village community and wild elephants Human elephant conflict in Sri Lanka It is estimated that Sri Lanka has the highest density of elephants in Asia but the population of Sri Lankan elephants has declined by at least 50% over the last three generations. Human-elephant conflict is increasing due to the conversion of elephant habitat to settlements and permanent cultivation. Project justification This project will act as a pilot project to check on the feasibility of using architectural design principles to mitigate the issue. The negative connection between community and wild elephants can reversed by identifying methods of economically benefiting from their unique situation. Mutualism between community and the wild elephants Economic mutualism between community and tourist Architectural objectives This project attempt to create a “mutualistic” relationship between different parties as well as to identify how elephant and humans experience the build domain and theirspaces while they coexist without harming each other. Creating the innovative architectural strategies to mitigate the conflict and symbiosis in the same area interpret the “Mutualistic living” between the affected community and the elephants. Therefore using that phenomena as a benefit, this project will also facilitates the tourists to get an experience by observing the behavior of wild elephants, which make as the “Economical mutualism” between community and tourist.
Brief In respect to the symbiosis with each other, the 3 key zones have contributed to coexist with the wild elephant while the human functions gives zero impact to their habitats. Community participation to mutualistic living with wildlife and transfer knowledge to improve their lifestyle while mitigating the attacks to their properties and crops. The existing local industries and proposed elephant dung paper factory have developed. Spaces provides for main community activities and for their utility services. Researcher’s participation to investigate the human-elephant conflict mitigation strategies and contribution in conservation of wild elephants and other species. This category has an important role in the project, which helps to transfer knowledge to the affected community as well as to generate and apply the innovative HEC methods by corporate with community. Public participation helps to improve the economic aspects of the overall project and generate the mutualism between community and public as the side effect of the human-elephant conflict. The difficulties of the boarder living would use as the benefit to the affected community by making connection with the public. Environmental compatibility Construction methods of the building consumes less energy due to the localized and ecological material and indigenous construction techniques ( earth bag techniques, jungle wood and used timber, existing rock boulders and thatched roof) The design has been placed with minimal damage to the site as well as giving a life cycle to the building with temporal materials while Easy and flexible construction materials to withstand for Elephant attacks. The building will use natural ventilation and lighting during the day time, which is energy efficient in operation. Form Structural form perform better in elephant attacks. Traditional- forms interpret local architectural elements - granary & simple house structure.
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MUTUALISTIC LIVING; WILD ELEPHANT CONSERVATION VILLAGE AT KALAPURAYA, SIGIRIYA, SRI LANKA | submission via The Sri Lanka Institute of Architects
Community Hub: The main purposes of the building serve the farm especially on the ground floor where it houses, barns, storages, courtyard, workshop & production area. Common spaces are inserted at each floor to allow people to gather and participate in community programming (shared kitchen, living, laundry). These spaces can help reduce social isolation, while still reducing degree of exposure and allowing for easy contact tracing where necessary. The open building plan & materials are made of rough texture such as wire mesh, bricks & steel. The material used are basically materials that can be found on site which makes the building itself blends into the existing environment. Salak South New Village is located at the heart of Kuala Lumpur, a town just outside of Kuala Lumpur with old village houses, wet-market, friendly people, and panoramic view of city skyline. This little village is actually quite secluded from the busy part of the city and is surrounded by highways and train tracks, yet the only road to access it seems to be Jalan 1 and Jalan 1/108 (Road 1 and Road 1/108). “Living Off - The Grid” Back in the olden days, planting their own food has been part of their daily activities but due to the increase of family members, the land has been used up for other purposes. Thus, farming is re-introduced to the site. Permaculture is a system that is being introduced and will encourage the locals to be resourceful and self-reliant. It is an ecological design system which helps us find solutions to the many problems facing us - both locally and globally and at the same time bringing back the history, cultural and memories to the communities. Design Ideas: The overall design comes into 2 parts which is the community hub and extension of rooms on existing one-storey houses.
Extension of Rooms: The extension of rooms is to create better, quieter, more privacy environment while working from home. Besides, it helps to cater the increase of family members from time to time, reduce family violence and wider space to walk around during the movement control order (MCO) for future pandemic which will also help to reduce stress, depression, anxiety and increase physical distant too. Sustainable Features: Shading Devices: The lightweight & perforated façade act as shading devices which helps to block direct sunlight while the users walk through the corridors. Green Area: Green spaces not only on the proposed farm but there is rooftop farming for small plants as well. Cross Ventilation: The used of perforated wire mesh as façade and open building plan helps to maximize cross ventilation and reduces solar heat gains. Perforated Wire Mesh as Facade: The lightweight & perforated façade allows natural sunlight to penetrate into the building. While on the lower ground it serves to protect the farm animals from predators during the night. Rainwater Harvesting from Rooftop: Rainwater collected helps to water the crops, washing laundry, flushing toilets and to clean animal barns.
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AN EDIBLE BACKYARD | submission via Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, people's lives have been physically restricted: gated community management, alienated social distance, tedious home life... These passive factors constituted most people's lives during the epidemic. The shrinking of activity space does not bring a sense of security, but aggravates people's psychological autism and anxiety. Despite our abundance of online social tools, in the face of disasters, no one is willing to abandon the real and close social environment. The psychological bounce has been reflected in some social news: residents play musical instruments on balconies to hold song parties across the sky, and teenagers gain long-distance love through remote drones. There is always a natural desire for good, and a real and intimate social environment is something we are committed to maintaining.
The project is located in the historic residential community of Beijing. Like lots of communities in the world, it had experienced strict closure measures. It even fell into a dead silence due to its aging population and mixed residents' background. As architects, we want to reshape the original crisis-ridden social relationships in the community in a positive and healthy state by strengthening the construction of the public environment. Taking this as an example, we will explore how the social space will continue to develop under this new normal situation post COVID-19 Pandemic, hoping to gain enlightenment from it. This will be a long process to rebuild interpersonal behavioral connections through artistic life. Perhaps this approach will encounter various difficulties and doubts, but when the epidemic enters a period of repeated and lasting normalization, nothing is more significant than strengthening psychological support. We believe that art always has the power to comfort people's hearts, no matter what the world becomes. We also support the idea that everyone is an artist if you want to.
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SPACE GAME BETWEEN HUNGRY ARTISTS AND DYING RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES | submission via Architectural Society of China
This project is located in an old swimming pool in the campus, which contains rich historical elements and cultural connotation, memory, interest, autonomy, communication, learning and competition. These elements have been gathered here, but they are temporarily idle due to long-term disrepair. Today's passive education of college students will be self-learning and interest. Guidance, knowledge exploration, high-tech assistance and other future education models will replace. The connotation of the old swimming pool will be a powerful supplement to the future education model. At the same time, it will continue the historical tradition of the school.
This program takes students' interest as the breakthrough point, through the transformation and addition of the old swimming pool in the campus, around the interest alliance unit, the layout of Group learning, community practice display, book collection, reading, digital media, compound function hall, water sports and other learning spaces. Then the design of campus graphic information center on a swimming pool is completed.
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INTEREST UNION | submission via Architectural Society of China
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Optimized design through wooden structure and acoustic simulation Since the past, acoustic design has made a lot of progress, and in modern society, it is possible to predict and design sound diffusion or reverberation time through computer simulation. In the past, acoustic architecture created an optimal acoustic space in the form of a space, whereas in modern times, the optimal shape and space are created through simulation, and reflectors and sound-absorbing materials are placed in appropriate locations to create an optimal acoustic space. In this plan, we will try to find out whether it is possible to have an effective sound effect in a space made of wood structure by utilizing 'wood' currently used in various acoustic spaces. The sound diffusion, which varies depending on the shape of the space, is planned through a wooden structure made of wood, the main material of the sound structure. The wooden structure itself becomes an object with sound effects. Plan the depth of the waffle and the reflection panel in the shape of the shell through the distribution of reverberation and sound pressure according to the concert hall stage and auditorium position.
On the stage where reflection is required, the depth of the waffle is lowered so that reflection can be concentrated, and the part where the negative focus phenomenon occurs is planned deeply so that sound can be absorbed inside the structure. A parametric wooden structure having a free form according to acoustic analysis is exposed in a concert hall, so that the structure becomes a sound absorbing agent and a reflector. This design, which started from the idea of boldly exposing the wooden structure by using the acoustic characteristics of wood and relating it to the sound, analyzed the sound according to the shape, grabbed the shape of the shell, and unraveled the shape into a wooden structure. In addition, a feasibility study was conducted through the Rhino Grasshopper simulation process, and it was found that it is relatively effective. However, due to the nature of the acoustic space, it cannot be further developed unless the space is actually created and experienced and analyzed. The conclusion in this plan does not end with the simple wooden structure showing the beauty of the structure, but I hope that various plans come out by approaching the nature of wood.
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ACOUSTIC SHELL DESIGN | submission via Korea Institute of Registered Architects
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Our proposal highlights the unique fluidity and dynamism of the ‘Instagram Pier’. Its’ spatial organization is constantly evolving with changing use of space. The entities within the site are thereby mobile: the wooden pallets, the containers and the vehicles. Furthermore, the popularity of the site is derived from its disorganization and individual interpretation. Our concept also celebrates the public reinterpretation of the cargo area as an unplanned and abstract public space which gives room for their own imagination and active participation in the space. Situated in the buzzling urban setting of Hong Kong Island, the Western District Public Cargo Working Area is chosen as our site of experimentation for post-coronavirus era public space.
We are inspired to create mobile designs to enhance the experience of the users while complying with the principles of social distancing to provide a safer and flexible public environment for the post-coronavirus times:
Recent statistics show that the densely populated Western District, which is where the pier is located, is in lack of public space as each resident can only share 1.5 sqm. of public space. As the pier provides a vast piece of harbourfront free space during non-operating hours, nearby residents discovered the potential of this rare yet unplanned open area with fascinating harbour view, and gradually transforming it into an attractive leisure destination.
The A-Frames device proposed by the project is a ladder-like wooden structure with a series of variations left for the individual's interpretation. It combats the challenges brought by the Covid-19 with three principles: distancing, separation, and orientation. Upcycling the existing abandoned wooden pallets on site, each A-Frames are set to stretch in a width of 1.5 m, satisfying the universal standard of social distancing. A set of variations is also developed to transform the A-Frames into an abstract device: a fabric seat that could kill viruses, a swing or a reflective mirrored-space.
Nowadays, the cargo working area remains its operation during daytime for loading and unloading of goods while the space would be occupied by the large crowds of general public for recreational activities as the sun starts setting. It does not only serve as a popular open space but also a hot photography spot which attracts locals or tourists to share their photos taken on-site given the spectacular harbour and sunset views. It is hence entitled to be the ‘Instagram Pier’. Despite the unprecedented times of Covid-19 pandemic, the site he space is still highly utilized by the public for a variety of leisure activities including photo-taking, fishing, running, and chatting.
The A-Frames explores the possibilities of conducting innovative interactions while safeguarding users’ health. It echoes with the unplanned nature of the popular pier by granting freedom for users to interpret their own ways of communal space. It resonates with the evolving spatial configuration of the site as the wheels are attached on one side of the A-Frame to allow it to be relocated by one person to allow dynamic activities to occur across the day.
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PIER_ARCADIA | submission via The Hong Kong Institute of Architects
The Tsim Sha Tsui Ferry Pier is one of the most iconic and historical landmarks in Hong Kong, accredited to its significance as a central hub for transportation between Kowloon and Hong Kong Island during the 60s and 70s. Despite the proliferation and diversification of public transport, traveling by ferries remains an essential part of Hong Kongers’ life for its unique experience throughout the journey. The pandemic has severely disrupted public transport as the underlying infrastructure fails to tackle the issue of keeping social distance while providing sufficient air ventilation. To restore confidence in public transport for Hong Kongers, a refreshing look with embedded new health safety features is greatly in need. At the moment, the pier is severely affected by the pandemic as the number of passengers decreased. During the site visit, it was noticed that the waiting areas were closely packed and had inadequate air ventilation. It would then form a potential hotspot for the virus to spread. Moving forward, we propose a redesigned pier that focuses on the idea of single direction circulation. It eliminates the potential intersection between boarding and arriving passengers, which further restrains the virus transmission. Passengers departing from the pier boards from the ground floor while allowing arriving passengers to disembark on the first floor.
Furthermore, to limit virus transmission while waiting for departure, a newly designed plaza is implemented in between the piers as a waiting area and is designed to separate out passengers waiting to board their ferry. This as well provides a unique waiting experience by utilizing the wait time for passengers to appreciate the surrounding historical architecture. Seating designs are also integrated into the circulation to encourage passengers to travel in a singular direction while minimizing unnecessary partitions put in place in the plaza to encourage a more visual and physical interaction with other passengers in hopes to bring a sense of normality back to the users. In essence, we have deep beliefs that architecture is about people. By redesigning the pier, our vision is to create a public space which provides a desirable and safe environment for people to stay, to gather, and to build connections. Also, this design specifically caters for the fast-paced Hong Kongers and ultimately offers a safe commute for its passengers, which is also able to cope with future pandemics by encouraging a good practice of social distancing in our society through design.
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THE PIER | submission via The Hong Kong Institute of Architects
In between the state-of-the-art towers of Hong Kong, lies these traditional businesses. Noticing their inability to cope with the digitalization, this accelerating shift towards digitalization seemed to be wiping out this traditional hawker culture bit by bit. A Grassroots Response Towards New Normal in Everyday Transient Community. COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted not only hidden problems, but also directions towards our future. Studies on consumption behavior show a significant shift towards digital platforms. Though digitalization will only grow in the near future, COVID-19 has accelerated this process. Hidden a click away from the online platforms are the traditional businesses that are facing the struggle to adapt to the new normal consumption tendencies. Innovation and adaptation is not foreign to Hong Kong, a city known as an international commerce centre. Yet, within the dense urban fabric of this city lies the vibrant hawker community - whose presence is integral to Hong Kong’s culture, but remained in transience. Known for their retractable and movable structures, we delve into the Hawker Community in Sham Shui Po district to discover another facet of resiliency in this new normal. Instead of making grand style changes to the local businesses, small scale changes can be adopted in creating flexibility in this presumably temporal but uncertain time. Making use of the found artefacts around Pei Ho and Ap Liu Street, strategies of deployment and mobility of the hawker’s everyday furnitures are rearranged and deconstructed through its spatial and materiality showcasing resilience from affordable, accessible, and modular adaptation.
This traditional culture is rooted in physical transactions, yet, this goes against the very nature of social distancing within the COVID-19 pandemic. However, humans are still social creatures. Confined to personal spaces, the need to explore these areas despite the risk serves a sense of satisfaction, proven otherwise with the ever-crowded condition of the hawker stalls. Looking into the vulnerability and temporal nature of this marginalized community, the potential of resilience designs will address the deep rooted but hidden resilience within. Being regarded as the poorer community, it often finds ways to survive and adapt; the vernacular architecture of the hawker stalls itself, is an illustration of adapting limitations and its flexibility. In our proposal, we aim to highlight and accentuate this hidden beauty. Our design methodology comprises setting distance and creating screen of rhetoric representation of social distancing and mask wearing; it is a series of 6 proposed possible systems and conditions, which also involves existing objects found on the hawker street. Ultimately, by showing regular units that are forming a street system, we would like to contrast it with the current hawker situation. There is not a final conclusion, but a cluster of variety conditions, for which hawkers are flexible in choosing their own fits, exactly like how they have adapted in the vibrant streets of hawker stalls, and showcasing their resilience.
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FINDING RESILIENCE | submission via The Hong Kong Institute of Architects
Layered park and water cleaning system. One of the few crowded places during COVID-19 lockdowns is the park. We have identified the park as a place to enhance resilience. The park had the power to contain activities during the pandemic,but in fact, people could not use the park satisfactorily. The main reasons are the lack of parks and the weather. Focusing on these two points, we consider widening the range of park use as resilience and designed a layered park. Coronavirus has taught us many things. One of them is the difference between the current urban density, which emphasizes access to basic services such as water, housing, and hospitals, and the healthy density, which is determined by securing public health and public space. Therefore, we need parks, which are open space in the cities. In other words, future urban planning needs to focus on green spaces and water front spaces. By making the park three-dimensional, we aimed to create more efficient open space. Also, since the park is an external space, its use is restricted depending on the weather. Especially in Asia, the temperature is high and there are many rainy days throughout the year. Unlike ordinary parks, layered parks can prevent sunlight and rain.
Another one is lack of infrastructure. The population density of urban areas in Asia is extremely high compared to the rest of the world. Therefore, infectious diseases and the like spread quickly. In addition, because infrastructure facilities and urban services are concentrated in urban areas, some people will not be able to access their lifelines if the city is locked down. It is necessary to reduce the density of the city and change it to the density required to maintain health, but at the same time, it is necessary to reduce the disparities in urban services and increase infrastructure crisis. This time, we combined the water cleaning function using the natural water cleaning system called the slow sand filter with the layered park. This will create a cool place by feature of water. And it enables the installation and distribution of infrastructure. Water has three important roles under the COVID-19 pandemic: play tools, healing and life support. Combining these three roles with the layered park makes the process of water cleaning system visible and gives people the opportunity to interact with water. In the park next to the natural river, coming into contact with water using its water may make us consider environmental issues again. Next, let’s talk about the design cord of this park. We use circle shape to make "new park". This shape makes it possible to see each person's facial expression and behavior while maintaining the distance between people. However, the circle is centripetal, we putted the columns around it and the tank in the center. This approach maintains a natural distance between people. And From the river to the land, we zoned the space for play, healing and living. We hope We hope that the creation of many such parks will allow all people to interact with the outside world at a healthy density, even in a variety of situations.
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WATER CIRCLE | submission via The Japan Institute of Architects
From the situation of COVID 19 cause learning teach online causing equipment shortage problems in learning of certain groups of children in each school causing educational inequality. Back to normal school but there is an impact from online learning is to squeeze more acceleration in learning because it may be lacking during certain lessons and students are divided within the classroom separated into groups during the same duration of study thus making some children may not catch up.
An example school that has come up with a design is Ban Pa Sao School Since it is a temple school which temple schools are everywhere in Thailand And is an alternative school for low income people.
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BAN PA SAO SCHOOL | submission via The Association of Siamese Architects
Covid-19 is an infection disease that have been reported across 188 countries and territories, more than 822,000 deaths and more than 15.6 million people have recovered. During Covid-19, another serious problem is about economy, businesses were forced to close to prevent people from infected, so lot of people have to stay at home. Working from home is a good solving but not everyone can work from home, especially for merchants that work every day in the market, they had a very hard time working during lockdown. A group of people that suffered is street stall’s merchants in the market. Before Covid-19 outbreak, they don’t have enough money to rent a shop for their business so they have to use stall or cart as a workplace, so when Covid-19 has come, everything went getting worse. Currently, Thailand is low infection rate of covid-19, those businesses, shop, departments store are able to open again after a few month of lockdown. Activities of people has changed, “New Normal” a healthcare system to build back better after Covid-19 by wearing mask, Social and physical distancing, avoid roaming in risk areas, hand sanitizer, etc. Everyone know how to protect themselves with social distancing but for those street stalls’ merchants who cannot avoid or keep distancing much as they can because congestion of people in market, it’s like unavoidable situation in plague outbreak. They have to keep selling stuffs for daily expenses and living day by day.
Street, carts stalls’ and peddler merchants at Warorot Market cannot avoid risk areas that have lots of people will definitely visit there because they have to work there are nothing they can do about it except protecting themselves such as ; wearing mask or using Hand sanitizer. About earning money in each day for living, not every merchants can earn money from GRAB system, it’s not working for these people in the market at all because of many factors. Another problem that Warorot Market can’t change is area management, there aren’t enough space for stalls and peddler merchants so they have to use a public walkways around the market that’s illegal. They have nowhere else to do anymore. So they are truly a group of people that suffered about economy and risk of infection, we have to redesign a new market area and healthcare area for them. Our achievement is to manage a safe, comfortable and suitable market area for peddlers and all stalls’ merchant in Warorot Market, developing economy and health by combine New Normal lifestyle that we learnt during COVID19 with design part that compatible the original characteristic of the market which known as Chinatown Chiangmai.
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ON THE KAD | submission via The Association of Siamese Architects
Concept : keeping a safe space between persons to modify a group behavior Intro : The bus stop crowded by people cause congestion and risk of the unexpected, so the question is how to solve this problem. The solution is to define and create a personal space in public areas that can prevent both rain water and sunlight. From the above, a thing that can fix all the problems is an “umbrella” which is the absolute answer. Before : The pre-existing space was a clearly defined structure which forced persons to be in the same area. 1.Public area for everyone. 2.Normally, everyone wants their personal space and tries to keep the distance. 3.Bus stop is where the people are crowded. 4.Increasing numbers of people make them lose their personal space. 5.Crowded people cause risk of the unexpected. After : There will be no roof for pedestrians at the bus stop for a good of the environment in that area, and everybody must have an umbrella since it will set a personal space for each individual. Furthermore, the pedestrians can move around freely and even feel safe and uncrowned since everyone in this current situation has to keep the distance to reduce the risk of the unexpected.
1.Holding an umbrella will create personal space. 2. Distance between people is created. 3. People will be automatically separated. 4. Becoming moveable personal space Using an umbrella creates personal space and how much personal space a person wants depends on how high or low he or she holds an umbrella. The lower the umbrella is, the more personal space is needed. Tool : Area determination for creating space between individuals. Diagram Umbrella : At the rush hour where the people are crowded, umbrellas will keep the distance between individuals. : Moveable Sun proof Rain proof Personal space. Material Black Japanese pebble = it’s a this to mark the limits of the waiting area and to reduce the improper use of the area. For instance, the homeless use it as a hangout. PC solid = Transparent seats the blend in the environment. “The imaginary span of personal space represented by umbrellas, which can create a distance between people in public areas, creates a spatially dimensional perception and social responsibility of social distancing.”
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YOUR OWN SPACE | submission via The Association of Siamese Architects
Redefining Public Spaces Pandemic-Resilient Community
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Living through a pandemic has affected people’s interaction and socialization practices drastically. In a developing country like Bangladesh, high density of population is a major challenge to physical distancing. Especially in Dhaka, the capital city, there are limited options for public gathering spaces,most of which can be daunting to access during a lockdown. As a result, people have spontaneously started to adapt to ‘a new normal’ by opting for new ways of interactions in alternative spaces like rooftops and balconies. History shows that courtyards have been an integral part of Dhaka's culture, offering a strong sense of bonding in neighborhoods. As the years progressed, rapid urbanization gave rise to a concrete jungle, devoid of rich cultural and social heritage of the neighborhoods of old Dhaka. Today, the only land available to most city dwellers is the patch of open space on their rooftops. Naturally, in adjusting to the new normal, people are bringing back the age-old traditions of interaction in this digital world.
This new trend of retrospection has been the driving force behind the design.Public spaces, in post-pandemic era, should not be isolated pieces of ground designated for mundane activities on a city scale. Depending on the need of the users, public spaces should be amorphously spread in a neighborhood. As a model, a network of such spaces has been developed in this design, connecting rooftops of residential buildings to other building types i.e.: school, Bazar, mosque, etc. Since the area and direction of growth of this matrix are variable, this model displays a fluid character, while the small-scale interventions appear like mosaics floating on it. The flexibility of the design and temporary nature of intervention opens up options for the people to interact in different layers and reduce human density on the streets. The matrix also serves as an alternative pedestrian connection, for the users to access services in their neighborhood. Once connected, the multilevel rooftops provide a lively social space for the users while preserving their sense of belongingness. This design paves the way to a wide range of opportunities by proposing a systematic distribution of public spaces, starting from the rooftop of a house, to the neighborhood parks and plazas. The rooftop modules can be used in several ways by the users, including and not limited to: rentable work-from-home spaces, e-commerce kiosks, farming and gardening spaces, etc. The privacy and security measures applied on each node can be controlled by the homeowners. Thus, proper governance through ownership can be ensured. The entire network can be altered, controlled, or redirected in response to a possible threat during crisis time. Thus, the design intends to reimagine the role of public spaces in a neighborhood. Fringe is the future of Dhaka. A neighborhood in Masterbari, Uttarkhan presents all the scopes andchallenges of the chaotic edge and has been selected as the site. The volatility of the population and the room for guided development, make this area a perfect site for this project. Finally, replication of this scheme in other edges of the city should ultimately lead to a pandemic resilient urbanism in Dhaka.
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FLUID MOSAIC NEIGHBOURHOOD | submission via Institute of Architects Bangladesh
Retrospective: The pandemic has taught us to be more Resilience in Design For illustration purpose only | Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay
How would you socially distance yourself if space isn't there in the first place? In light of COVID-19, cities have generally been the epicenters of the devastation. Dhaka is no exception for its importance as a socio-economic center of Bangladesh with a dense urban population. Our proposal seeks answers for questions never asked before to reimagine public spaces in a concentrated urban fabric of Old Dhaka. After the arrival of the pandemic, the government of Bangladesh imposed lockdown across the country by the end of March. Soon, depression set in due to fear of the outbreak, increasing cases and deaths, economic crisis, social isolation, and a broken healthcare system. This psychological stress has to be taken into account and we aim to seek are solution considering multiple variables of this complex situation in a more complex urban setting of Shankhari Bazar. When we think of Old Dhaka, vibrant and happening streets are the dominant public realm there. We propose interventions in the settlements of Shankhari Bazar to create a collective ambience for the neighborhood. Shankhari Bazar has a distinct quality, both architecturally and visually. Residents have a homogeneous character with a strong community sense. Our purpose is to strengthen this community solidarity to minimize the psychological impact of pandemics through design. Shankhari Bazar is a busy narrow street, most of the buildings have shops on the ground floor showcasing traditional crafts and materials. Social distancing is a cruel joke to these households and the public in general. So, the nature of a public space considering the whole pandemic situation in this context is crucial. We must rethink the definition of public space as we know it. Going beyond the norms of ownership, we should think of public space as an extension of private space.
Buildings here are three to four-storeyed mostly with enclosed verandas. Our proposal here is to retrofit these facades of each floor to fit a hanging balcony. It's a reflection of the old courtyard house concept, but outwards, facing the street. People can relax, linger here; and, share thoughts with neighbors without physically meeting ina place. This balcony is modular considering affordability and space availability. It has paneled railing to be painted and installed by the residents. It will be an exhibition of their crafts and enjoyable work indeed for women and children. Families can make modules of art installations and hang them from their balcony which will make one large expression for the whole community. Thus, they will be isolated, yet connected through participation. This balcony could be used for relaxing, gardening, and participating in Holi Festivals post-pandemic times. Furthermore, the streets will have textures to inspire social distancing. After lockdown, time schedules can be imposed. Business till evening, after that it would be a social hub for people. In addition to that, we suggest developing a website which will primarily serve as a sharing platform for the community and become an online platform to showcase their traditional crafts. We want to take advantage of this newslike event to reach people elsewhere and thus creating a new opportunity to conserve, showcase, and sell. To sum up, our proposal suggests redefining public spaces being mindful of pandemic situations to enable the community to absorb shocks and recover fast, to achieve social resilience.
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RETRO-FIT | submission via Institute of Architects Bangladesh
Project position Additive architectural components can lead to reflect any cultural statements while fulfilling the fictional aspects which relates. The main idea behind this particular design thesis is to Reveal the real treasure in gem industry which majority haven’t catches in to their eyes. Furthermore, this particular academic exercise leads to reveal particular segments which are laid beneath the society through an architectural intervention. Supportively, Selected Problems were resolved due to the aims and objectives which have created by analyzing the related sector. Proposed project is more over a Gem promotional center to promote all the related criteria in the process. The main idea behind this design thesis is to come up with a methodology to promote the gem industry in a particular manner while developing its background and other related cultural aspects. The design also focuses on adding value to the community and the real owners of these treasures. Proposed Architectural intervention is more over an Industrial and Cultural exposing tool. Which will cater for selected Propagandas which have been selected to promote in particular manner which will discussed further. This system allows to Promote their own cultural and Industrial Value while facilitating within their own premises (Gem mines). The Project will lead to act as a supportive tool for the Transitional development in near future. In fact, the selected Area will be transforming in to Gem Conservation city by the government Proposals which are already Started. So the Proposed Promotional Center will act as a Pre advertisement to the Future Development goals and to Fulfill the Aims and objective that government has Proposed.
Project Approach So there is a need of architectural intervention, as an approach Rathnapura will be the major area which will be places a particular architectural intervention. The project was focused into the area where all the process started, gem mines. The lower grounds which placed gem deposits. Project was focused on the very first step which was made by mines. When analyzing the mining process there were certain observations were made. And the risk they have facing were observed. So, the idea was to rehabilitate gem mines as a tribute to the culture and the gem related society. Above mentioned society layers are additively acting to produce one of the most valuable products in the world. According to the social connectivity’s the approach was to build up an additive architectural component to cater these societies as well as solving the initial problems when approaching. The background study acknowledges the significance of Rathnapura in terms of its history, contextual and socio-cultural aspects. As a community, the people of Rathnapura have customs, traditions and ancestral wisdoms and techniques which have been passed down through generation. This knowledge was formed through repeated trial and error, resulting in developing techniques and methods that befitting to cater to their needs. But these traditional methods have not been developed to fit the modern standards, which has resulted in most of the difficulties people face in the gem industry. This is approached through the revitalization of their traditional techniques by providing them modern facilities for the development of their basic needs while exposing the hidden story behind Gem Industry.
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GEM PROMOTIONAL CENTER | submission via The Sri Lanka Institute of Architects
Design Position “The city is for citizens” The position stands with the idea that cities should essentially be designed for citizens. Hence,the architectural solutions at present should essentially be contemporary in order to transcend our time. This would eventually guarantee a continuation and evolution of the city’s’ heritage and culture, than allowing it to die away. In other words, contemporary solutions are vital to bridge the past, present and future. In order for the architectural solutions to be contemporary, the primary focus of the architectural decision-making process should be on “citizens” living in this time of history. This includes their aspirations, needs, links and connections and values. The solutions are not to be of juxtaposition, yet still needs be distinct from the previous. Cities are always in layers. The present era is a time in which every inch and every person is rapidly undergoing the process of globalization in different ways. The advancement in technology has accelerated this process and that we are naturally or effortlessly (whether we like or not) are exposed to this process, which is cultural. In fact, this is an era where there is no clear distinction between global and local.
Therefore, this discourse is highly relevant in this period of time, especially in terms of an historical city with a strong cultural heritage. The position embraces the idea that a heritage city should actively engage with these trends in a positive way rather than being exclusive. If not the city and its’ citizens will die away in time. In other words, natural process of evolution should not merely be allowed rather accommodated. A positive engagement with these global trends will create a fusion between past and present leading to a better continuation of tradition, values systems with reformation. The fusion between the architectural spaces and programs that we architects (technocrats) will introduce and the spaces and programs that the citizens will eventually introduce will create the much needed social space. Therefore, in the case of a historical city, an architectural design requires a multi-faceted, vibrant and a flexible architectural program. Such architectural interventions will contribute to make better cities for citizens. Design Intent The design intent is to explore the role of contemporary architecture in a historical city/ urban environment, which is in fact an ongoing long discourse all over the world. It seems that this subject area can be viewed and described in many angles. Different architects have tried out different solutions based on their cultural positions and world views. Therefore, the Design Thesis intends not to find a universal response or a solution, rather to find a context specific solution. This will result in number of facts to be considered when responding to a living historical city, which are not deterministic after-all. Therefore, the Design Thesis is an attempt to derive means of responding to a historical context where the city and its’ citizens are valued.
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CITY EXTENSION | submission via The Sri Lanka Institute of Architects
“A solution is right behind the plight; all it takes a step towards unfolding the problem.” While fighting with the COVID -19 Pandemic, some of the densest residential areas have emerged as hotspots. Though the enemy is in the street, in mass transits, the risk of infection increases radially out from the dwelling.
Design FeaturesThe unfold is a fulfilment of need of socializing space after and during pandemic along with availability of vegetable market with optimum catchment area. The design smoothens the boundary of water and ground by inclusion of connected water bodies in the ground and vice versa.
This does not point towards the end of the world yet, staying at home has eventually made us feel the importance of common public interaction, decongestion of urban fabric and the desire to get closer to nature. The Unfold is a humanitarian approach of connecting local public spaces to nature while preparing for the next big disruption. The pandemic has hassled the human lifestyle and pointed out the oversights of architecture. Today, need for a small-scale vegetable market to contain the infection is significantly felt.
Entrance/ExitThe Unfold tries to minimize the post pandemic overreaction through incorporation of social distancing and disinfection possibilities. Multiple entrance and exit points with sensor activated hand washing points and sanitizing booths to the site could disperse the crowd during ingress and egress.
The Site Janakpur is a city famous for its large number of ponds. Almost every locality is pond centric. Instead of reaching out bigger market space, creating ponds into recreational as well as a market space can be a smarter option. The site, Argaza Pokhari, is a pond near famous Janaki Temple of Janakpur which has roads on its two sides. The Concept The conceptualization of the project starts from initial characterization of post pandemic problems and unfolding the solutions. The basic idea of form development got driven by the unfolding nature of a leaf. The curvature of leaves on two sides of the waterfront derived the basic form while the veins of the leaf derived the pathway to the stalls. The unfolding of the solutions of social distancing and local vegetable market space is achieved in the unfolded parts of the leaf.
Market StallsTwo-way wooden pathway leading towards the vegetable stalls with possibility of social distancing by marked footway over the waterbody is an approach to stimulate the senses. Aesthetically pleasing wooden planked pathway emerging out from the water takes full advantage of unused space along with attainment of Social distancing. SeatingKnowing the fact that pandemic never lasts forever, inclusive sitting space for pandemic and non- pandemic times is introduced. Psychological tactics for distancing by painting seats and minimization of face to face interaction through outward facing seats is a resilient approach to designing public space. Conclusion The Unfold tries to amalgamate a waterfront and marketplace to redefine post pandemic occurrences. It fulfils the demands of time and connects human life with Nature, unfolding the elements of life.
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THE UNFOLD | submission via Society of Nepalese Architects
Emergency Housing | Disaster Resilience At the point when it has just been two decades of venturing into the 21st century, the world has already confronted countless environmental, financial, health, and wellbeing crisis. Homelessness is one of the effects. This COVID-pandemic has influenced the very-nature of architectural spaces and life we used to perceive has proven inconsistent and unreliable. Nevertheless, taking coherence of unpredictable disasters, things in mass demand different Archi-socio structures. While it’s a human right for the people to have proper shelter to live in, they are obliged to end up in roads or poor congested areas for the living. Temporary shelters when built for emergencies, usually have problems of longer installation time, heaviness, congestion, unhygienic space causing the overhaul of future diseases. SYMBIOTIC HEALING’ is designed to uplift, sublimate and restore the social stability of the homeless victims and to build a disaster-resilient community on its own that can degenerate at the time of redundancy. The philosophy argues to minimize the discrepancy among neighborhood which can be overcome if only the new settlement contributes the surrounding; some sort of spatial strategy. The idea is to accommodate different socio-institutional background followed by philosophy of low-cost, participatory layman carpentry-skills, stackable modules, passive design, self-sustainability and metamorphosis. Materials follow the philosophy of regionalism. Since the pandemic has a global influence, the context demands the main-stream practice. Tropical urban land is taken for the reference and materials are presented accordingly. Since the context is not concretized, this project can adapt the idea globally. Example, bamboo as skeleton and thatched roof “Gundri” for tropical climate and woolen products for cold region as outer skin.
This led us to think to practice the same industry of products from the grass, bamboo and vernacular materials. In this way, the architecture appears as a fashion-delivery of marketing strategy that attracts the eyes of entrepreneurs, donors, sponsors and tourists. One module accommodates six people. Rest modules follows multiplication. Keeping the UNDP standards of sanitation and services, this community targets to accommodate 50 individuals sharing the pre-requisites of emergency, health and sanitation, which is Phase-I. First phase is experimented on one cluster optimizing time and money. Every records of performance of first phase encourages to add next cluster in better manner. If the planning progresses, the cluster can habituate mitosis-like division to incorporate other people, which is defined as Phase-II. If philosophy seems progressive, the cluster can prolong until the stabilization of the user’s group. This sequence needs a year-time which is Phase-III. This expansion idea creates the fifty-multiplication of habitants/contributors. Henceforth, the concept not only encourages architectural identity but also suggests Participatory-tactic that involves the attachment of users provoking to conserve. In case the settlement is degenerated for many socio-political reasons, the modules can be adapted for commercial and expo-like space; a resilience performance we claim. This new prototype for emergency architecture could be flexible enough to please victim’s “wants”, standardize their “needs” and simultaneously be liable for all social, political, and prudent "limits".
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SYMBIOTIC HEALING | submission via Society of Nepalese Architects
(Reviving Bagmati riverfront) Mother Nature has always been and eternally will be the superior mysterious architect compared to our human interventions. Coming up to this generation, people have been sincerely trying to leave their mark on this earth with their inventions or ideas. Yes, these magnificent inventions/ discoveries have led us to where we are now with increase in quality of life. However, one of the inventions, airplane that helps us to connect and travel faster than ever has also played a role in the faster distribution of pandemic condition of 2020. The same design that makes our life easier is also making our life miserable. Since our intelligence tries to dissect things to its fundamentals to make a categorization for rational understanding of the existence, forgetting that the universe has no obligation to make sense of itself. Thus, our proposed design concept does not try to impact on nature but reflects the nature itself.
The parking is hidden underneath the landscape hiding all vehicles that locals are tired of seeing every day. The contour is filled and inclined towards the riverbank and the focus of visitors is directed towards the roaring river and the existing scenario instead of the boring buildings and roads. The contour is very random but elegantly formed like the natural landscapes for visualization of minimum human interventions. The Bagmati River is filtered in the eastern side via natural process and the filtered stream is submerged in the purposed pond for vegetation and management of micro climate. The boundary wall is replaced with broken durbar (palace) as a reminiscence of site history.
The idea is not tomake an effort to design something rather it is to make something instantaneous & effortless like the nature. The concept is inspired from the ancient philosophy of Taoism where Tao simply means “the way”.
All the shapes, volumes and form of the artificial pond, sitting, cafeteria hidden under the landscape, pathways etc. are intentionally made irregular for organic vibes.
It’s the way of not forcing action but going with the flow of nature.
Requirements such as cafeteria, amphitheater are seamlessly blended in the context thus helping the flow of contour and breaking monotonous life of Urban visitors.
The first realization of design problem starts with the context. Our site lies on the Bagmati river bank which is polluted by human intervention and is located at the center of urban area. What this outbreak of pandemic has taught us is that we take nature for granted. Thus, we have come up with a solution that the built-up environment of the landscape on the river bank reflects the organic nature in its original form. This is achieved by following ways:
The experience of visiting the riverbank is hoped to bring peace of mind and remind people about the importance of nature by showing how fragile is our ego created by all these achievements. Overall, the proposed design is very practical in the given context and we hope that it resilient not just architecturally but also in framing people perspective.
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BIOPHILIC RIVERFRONT | submission via Society of Nepalese Architects
SHARING SPACE - SHARING ECONOMY A RESPONSE TO THE ECONOMIC RESILIENCE POST COVID19 LOCATION : DICTRICT 1, HOCHIMINH CITY, VIETNAM PLACE : COMMERCIAL APARTMENT “ 42 NGUYEN HUE “ QUẬN 1 , THÀNH PHỐ HỒ CHÍ MINH - TRUNG TÂM KINH TẾ QUAN TRỌNG CỦA THÀNH PHỐ HOCHIMINH CITY IS ONE OF THE TWO LARGEST CITES IN VIETNAM, AND ALSO ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL CENTERS OF VIETNAM. HOCHIMINH CITY ACCOUNTS FOR 21.3% OF THE TOTAL PRODUCTS (GDP) AND 29.38 % OF THE TOTAL NATIONAL BUDGET REVENUE DURING COVID19 - THE PERCENTAGE OF GPD IN HOCHIMINH STRONGLY DECREASES . IF THERE IS NO SOLUTION TO REVIVE THE ECONOMY, SOONER OR LATER WE WILL FACE SUCH SERIOUS CONSEQUENCE Due to the Covid 19 epidemic. The economy of Vietnam in general and Ho Chi Minh City in particular has been heavily affected such as: 1. More than 40,000 businesses, including household businesses in Ho Chi Minh City, have applied for tax deferral and land rental deferral. 2. According to the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), about 7.8 million workers lost their jobs or lost their jobs due to the epidemic. 3. The Taiwanese shoe company Pouyuen Vietnam announced on June 20 that it would lay off more than 2,000 workers due to delayed orders caused by the pandemic. 4. Vietnam’s fruit export businesses are affected by the high cost of air transport due to the limited number of commercial flights. Despite high demand, exports have halved over the past two months as shipping operators demanded two to four times the normal price.
5. More than 18,000 business households were forced to close in Ho Chi Minh City in the first four months of the year according to the City Tax Department 6.1,523 companies were dissolved in Ho Chi Minh City in the first quarter of the year according to the municipal People’s Committee. Through the above figures, we realize the seriousness of the national economy. If the pan- demic continues, we will surely face with unavoidable consequences. So the question is: When thousands of businesses were closed, a series of offices were left empty, commercial centers were empty due to covid, thousands of people were homeless due to job loss. What is the solution to recovering those problems post covid ? SHARING SPACE - SHARING ECONOMY : That is the way that we choose, also the post-ene- my architectural solution for economic recovery. By renovating a public space. Integrating more functions, enhancing sustainability. Our approach looks towards the following resilience possibilities: 1. Helping small and medium-sized businesses and starup businesses have a place to work with cheap counterfeit, creating motivation to get up after the pandemic (Co-working) 2. Redefining living space, do we really need a space that is too big? ( Co-living ) 3. The medical crisis leads us to a new definition of space in the future. Do we need an emergency preventive medical center around us (Mini hospi- tal)? 4. Enhance connectivity, enhance green space as well as building sustainability 5. Should we take care of the homeless and help them recover from the epidemic? (social housing)
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SHARING SPACE | submission via Vietnam Association of Architects
During Covid-19, many questions have been raised regarding public space design. How the public should be changed? What is our relationship with public spaces? And many more… For this project, the site selected is from one of the previously designed project of a housing community in Bahria town Lahore in front of Eifel tower replica. This project initiated with a detailed analysis of the community, which resulted in selecting a block comprising a commercial zone to be redesigned according to the idea of resilience, as it is important for our basic needs of everyday life. Also, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the green areas of our city were the only public spaces that were mainly used, so, along with commercial zone, I am also questioning the way we design our green areas and their impact on our built environment. The major concept of this project is to design these spaces in a way that they can be resilient. Designing adaptable spaces which can be used according to the need of the time and situation. Objectives of this project: Organize the density Dividing people Placemaking Social interaction but having hindrance in physical contact. Relation with nature
To fulfil these objectives the keywords which are defining the concept for designing these spaces are. Dividing functions Visual connection Wayfinding Confining specific function to specific space Placemaking Relationship with open space, the impact of open space on built space. Role of Landscape. The commercial zone is designed to provide convenience in wayfinding and every space is visually connected. Every space has a specific function associated with it and the overlap of the functions has been reduced. The circulation of people and the arrangement of the shops has been designed to organize the density, dividing people. As the person enters this building there is a void in between which visually connects spaces, helping people to know where they have to go. This open space provides an opportunity for people to breathe in and also in the time of pandemic these spaces can be used by the shopkeepers to add more space to their display if needed. Also, the landscaping is designed by keeping in mind the concept of placemaking, trees are planted at the spots which can provide shaded spaces. Open spaces are provided at different levels to enhance the relation of built with unbuilt. The physical contact with surfaces is reduced by the use of ecology. The green area between the houses is also designed by keeping the same keywords into consideration. Specific spaces are provided for a specific function and the role of ecology has been kept in mind while designing. Along with the green areas the terraces of the houses are also treated to create a connection between built and unbuilt. In the design of this whole block the circulation of a person is kept in mind and it dictates the journey of a person from his/her house to the commercial zone.
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RESILIENT TRANSFORMATIONS | submission via Institute of Architects, Pakistan
This Community has the capacity of 3000 people in form of 550 families. The residential divisions of the community include individual houses, low-rises (up to 3 families/units per floor per block) and mid-rise complexes (up to 7-story apartments). The community has shared amenities including; a Primary school, a community mosque, commercial sector, a community hall, playground and a gymnasium. Existing master plan has centralized amenities, which are accessible from the road on the west and they serve 3000 users of the community. There is an increased influx of users at certain times of the day, such as; during the school starting and dismissal time, the main users are students, between 1600 to 1900 hours, the commercial area remains very active, and finally the mosques remain active 5 times a day and very busy during the Friday prayer. Under normal circumstances, the circulation space provided for amenities is enough based on their functions. However, in a pandemic situation, these amenity spaces are not able to take the user loads because of the precautionary measures.
The idea is to split amenities into several parts in order to avoid the crowding during the pandemic. It could be done by adding a market space including programs such as; utility store, bakery, tandoor and grocery store. Keeping in mind the importance of site selection, north side of the existing community is chosen for the project because of the presence of mid and low-rise apartments towards the north which form a very dense area due to the number of residents. The newly proposed market and existing commercial area are located at the opposite ends. Second consideration to place the market is site’s longer axis which must be parallel with the road. The market modules are placed, right in front of the existing pedestrian circulation path, this helps minimize the user walking distance. The modules’ structure and location create out-scribe circulation which maximizes the customer and shopkeeper interactive edge. The built out-scribe circulation is accessed through narrow entrance (filtering 1 by 1 and maintaining the user order) and wide exit. The green spaces between the market’s modules act as buffer zones. The floor pattern organizes the people’s movements. There are vertical membranes at the edges of green spaces which help in defining movement pattern. This market area is a pedestrianized area and car parking provisions are seen in design. Local brick, stone and bamboo are used in landscape design. \
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PANDEMIC RESILIENT MARKET | submission via Institute of Architects, Pakistan
The project is based on Re-thinking and Re-designing the previously proposed design of a community in Bahria Town Lahore which was based on Communal Living. The idea is to make it pandemic resilient with various design interventions. After the analysis of previously proposed design, sector D out of four sectors was selected to undergo design interventions. The first issue to cater was the circulation of the community which was not as resilient. So, I started off by separating the pedestrian circulation from vehicular circulation by providing overhead bridges for pedestrian movement. The curved elevated bridges will be on different levels which go throughout the sector. The bridge not only connects directly to the houses through terraces and roofs, but also provides enough space for interaction to people. The spacing which was designed initially according to the concept of communal living might not be enough in case of a pandemic. As the design of the community is was already proposed, it was not possible to increase the width of road and pedestrian pathways, that is why the over- head bridges are provided which start at the entrance of the sector and reach the individual houses. There will be vertical shafts as well which will allow people to exit the bridge at any moment.
With two curved bridges on different levels connected through ramps, there will not only be enough views to the surroundings but pollution and vehicle free area for people to walk. People on cars will be able to travel underneath the bridge and due to curvilinear form of the bridge, there wońt be any ventilation or light penetration issues in the space underneath. The bridge will cover the 30 ft wide road and the width of one curve path would be 8 to 10 ft to maintain safe distance and work in post pandemic times as well. Second design intervention was to change the commercial building with Vertical Drive-thru commercial building. This provides a faster and safer way for people to have all the amenities under one roof and with this the “lengths” of the roads will be reduced. With transformable shops the building provides more space in pandemic and in post pandemic times. Adding a drive thru to an existing commercial building or just design a parking plaza with shops and cafes will give an opportunity to the sector to work independently and people will use personal vehicles which are preferred to be the safest way to travel in a pandemic and not getting out will prevent any contact with the virus. In post pandemic times it will also work efficiently and still will be faster way of shopping reducing the vehicular traffic on junctions or congested nodes.
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RESILIENT COMMUNAL DESIGN | submission via Institute of Architects, Pakistan
JUSTIFICATION For the last decade various states of the Indian Subcontinent have been experiencing constant and regular flooding either from the monsoon or due to the overflow of rivers. The clogging of drains and absence of a well thought rainwater drainage system in the building bye-laws or in urban planning has resulted in major towns and metropolitan cities being flooded with rural India undergoing maximum damage and loss of life. The overflowing of rivers due to deforestation and construction on river beds has added to this plight. The design of flood resilient safe house has innovated a new technology for the houses to float on the increasing water level, thereby eliminating the loss of life and property. The design has evolved in a manner that it can be used for construction of modular units which can be grouped together and hence a floating community on water can be established. The method of construction is robust and consumes little time. The loss of life, economy, livelihoods and the absence of innovation to save the lives of people has led to the inception of this Water Architecture
PRECEDENCE/INNOVATION The initiative is self-thought for the flood affected regions of the Indian subcontinent. made using the most readily available materials. Adhering to the concept of innovation for life and resilience by adopting new means of architecture. The design is modular and can be adopted by all the flood prone regions of the country, moreover given the feasibility and nature of construction, once in use the structure adopts to the changing water level on its own by the presence of barrels as the base or foundation member. The barrels move up with the rising water level and go down with the decreasing water level. The beauty lies in the non-disruptive nature and the nonexistent ecological foot print of the intervention. SCALE OF WORK The design has been well thought and has kept in mind the highly flood prone areas of Assam, Bihar, West Bengal, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh. And the flood prone areas of Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi. IMPACT/SUSTAINABILITY The sustainability of the design is imminent from its modular construction and the way it weaves together all the flood victims transforming their livelihoods into floating communities without displacing them from their place of origin and neighborhoods. The structure when fitted with a motor pump can be used to navigate and rescue flood victims, Individuals can turn their house on water into sources of income in the absence of flooding by turning them into rent-able structures, ready to move in for tourists and businesses alike.
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FLOOD RESILIENT SAFE HOUSES | submission via The Indian Institute of Architects
Resilience in Design: For people, for now, for the future... For illustration purpose only | Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay
In the late 2019, a very dangerous virus appeared and it was first spreading in Wuhan, China. The World Health Organization (WHO) named this virus as SARS Covid-19. This virus mainly attacks our respiratory system so it can make us hardly breathe. This virus also can cause any other symptoms and it can also lead to death. This virus can transmit between peoples because this virus can stick to peoples body and any other objects so it becomes contaminated then when other people get contact with it, it can easily go inside our body through our mouth, eyes, and nose. This virus can also be transmitted through the air because of the droplets that came out from people's mouths. Because of the danger and the way that virus spreads it makes people nowadays have to keep a distance to communicate so they can prevent the spreading of the virus. A lot of human activity nowadays has become virtual because of the virus, especially a lot of social aspects. Some examples are the public spaces like parks have become deserted. Normally people in the park can do a lot of things like talking, walking, sightseeing, etc. But now after Covid-19 attacks, activity like talking which requires people to get in contact with each other in a short distance becomes really dangerous. Our design goal is to make people can talk again in the park freely with the sense of existence.
Actually people can still do the talking activity just by using some kind of transparent layer that can prevent physical and droplets contact, but that kind of thing just makes the quality of the park become lower. Rather than creating something same as before with lower quality, our idea is to create something new with a new point of interest to make the park become more attractive but still safe. Our design ideas come from the combination of the old fashioned way to talk or communicate with the nowadays mostly way to communicate or talk using virtual support platforms. The combination of those two will create some new way to communicate that can also give a new point of interest for the park. The old way to communicate provides us a real image of a person and also the feel of existence while the nowadays way only gives us a virtual/unreal image of us through technology and lack the feel of existence. Our ideas called this new way of communication as a ‘transition’ phase that can provide a virtual/unreal image but with the feel of existence. To realize those ideas, we implement those characteristics into some architectural module that is created by a combination of mirrors using the principle of periscope. This modular periscope can also create some intimate feel of space because of the hallway to increase the quality of communication for the users. But at the end the most important thing is it can provide safety for the users health.
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SOCIALIZING SPACE | submission via Ikatan Arsitek Indonesia
Activeness in Distancing Environment Covid-19 Pandemic has led to drastic physical distancing norm to avoid the transmission of the diseases that majorly resulted in physical inactivity and sedentary lifestyle. Data shown by Malaysian health survey, 58% of respondent preferred to do most of the workouts at home. While in-house exercise surely benefits, prolong isolation are anticipated to further affects psychosocial risk factors, including stress, social isolation, and negative emotions. The site proposed is located in Taman Tasik Barat of Shah Alam Lake Garden with close proximity to business, leisure, residential and educational districts in Shah Alam. While the site has long been the favourite spot for recreation and exercising in Shah Alam, the recent movement control order due to the pandemic has resulted in declining usage of the public space through personal observation. This scheme suggests the redefinition of urban recreational space that could promote physical activeness while taking heed of social distancing factors of post-pandemic. The Design solution emphasises on programmatic approach to promotes activeness in distancing norm. The architectural typology of staircase is regarded as an opportunity for exercising through movement experience along the staircase. The Big Stairs and 3 Level of Staircase Towers are introduced as the main exercising mechanism. The Big Stairs consist of a long continuous undulating staircase system that runs linearly to the lake. Three different levels of staircase tower with each respective detail is introduced for different users who seek different level of exercise intensity. Micro details of the staircase (riser, thread and height) are manipulated to provide different experience of movement for the public.
The intersecting spaces in between each ascension of staircase are turned into functional rooftop for additional recreation with great vista overlooking the lake garden. Vertical circulation is further addressed to enhance visual surveillance and crowd control. Open structural frame and staircase would provide transparency to allow direct ventilation and provide more visual surveillance and view to the park. Visual demarcation of space through geometrical shape, marking size and bright colours are used to differentiate spatial usage and 1-meter social distancing for users. While the design focuses on promoting physical activeness, secondary programme of socializing and economic empowerment is also introduced to encourages humanistic and social growth in the urban environment. Event space, children play zone and detachable vendor stall are inserted to enhance the vibrancy of the waterfront area. The existing artificial natural environment in the heart of Selangor’s capital shall be utilised to attract more users. Site Planning of the scheme are designed in sequential motion according to the social distancing procedure. Access to bicycle lane and jogging track succeeded the existing car park to promote more sustainable access and thus contributes to the goal of Low Carbon City Action Plan that aims to cut 45% carbon emission in Shah Alam by the year 2030. In conclusion, the scheme hypothesised the redefined programmatic typologies as an intervention mechanism to promotes physical activeness in distancing environment of recreational urban space.
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[ACTIV]ATE | submission via Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia
Covid 19 has impacted many aspect of our life, that includes architecture, community interaction, and daily habits. For that, social distancing and safety protocol has been implemented in order for mankind to stay safe. However, in such instance it reduce the meaningful interaction between people, which further divided mankind in terms of social life. So what are the ways and means to improve such situation? How do we create a solution architecturally? 1) Inclusive Playground & Public Space Social Media has played an important role in our social life nowadays, so for this space.It is painted in a striking range of colors, forming a rainbow-like ladder and spaces. For that, the youths will definitely visit this place, take some selfie and upload on Instagram, Twitter or Snapchat. They might also tag this places which further promote the space of design. 2) Urban Art Spaces Just like Penang Wall art street, at public holiday its normal to see people lining up just to take a photo for memories. For that, we decided to design free standing facades with exhibition circulation, which will allow the urban artist to paint wall mural on it to express their creativity. Wall art is appealing to youths nowadays as it is relevant, approachable, and people can have close proximity to interact with the artworks.
3) Bamboo Structured Market / Workshop This is a revamped version of the existing futsal field, and its repurpose as Market and Workshop space. While retaining the existing steel structure, we designed it with bamboo theme architecture, which allow the space to be permeable, which further enhance the user experience of the people who is in this community space. Bamboo is easily assembled, and its sturdy, which represent the resilience of mankind to go against Covid 19, and we selected Bamboo as it is a building material that will protect mankind through thick and thin. 4) Community Recreational Space Beside from the integration of bamboo structure, the futsal field is further developed with colourful theme, in order to speak the same design language as the inclusive Playground and public space. For that, this will create a unique identity for the design and people will definitely remember it as a iconic sport places for people to interact with each other. 5) Urban Farm Urban farm is designed as a self sufficient space for the community spaces. Designed with wooden Pallete as the theme is sustainable design, its also designed with the concept of Aquaponic systems. The farm products will be collected, and then sells on the Marketplace. This concepts will encourage interaction between people as farming is a teamwork, and therefore improve community connection in the site context.
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ABRIDGING US WITH DISTANCE | submission via Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia
THE FUTURE A PROPOSED REDESIGN OF THE CDO PUBLIC MARKET As we continue to traverse and cope with this pandemic-stricken society, and as the global economy falters to the brink of stress and exhaustion, we have learned to live with the present standards and protocols concerning this crisis. As local economies gradually open up, we understand that redesigning public spaces in line with the standard pandemic protocols is not only necessary but is definitely inevitable. Understanding that architecture is not only an avenue to create structurally-sound and appealing design, but also a means of creating opportunities for various sectors in society both social and political. With this, the idea of redesigning a certain public space that will not only have a structural and aesthetic impact, but may also serve as a major economic and social model structure for a post- pandemic Philippines. The marketplace was chosen as the ideal public space for redesigning given its architectural, social, and economic potential. Markets are a staple public space in every community and serves as the backbone of the state as it caters to the various sectors in society. Analyzing the potential impact of this public space to the community, it became imperative that redesigning this space in line with the current public safety standards and employing the stated economic-centric principle would mean prioritizing the safety of the shoppers without compromising the current number of stalls in the public space.
The team focused on a motion-centric solution that will address the existing standards for public safety (i.e. social distancing, contact, etc.). The usage of various elements such as path walk and stall to shopper ratio will hopefully influence the mobility of patrons. Aside from this, the entirety of the market was divided into clusters with each cluster capable of providing the necessary goods and services that the average shopper needed. This concept was derived from the Filipino mico markets called talipapa which are commonly found in towns and barrios in the country. The application of this concept is conceived to be a solution in relieving the possible foot traffic and human density that is perpetuated by the usual market design that divides the whole into sections. The reduction of the possibility of dense foot traffic and human convergence is correlated to minimizing the possible risk of infection therefore ensuring public safety. In addition to the micro markets found in the ground level, an urban farm is also included in the overall plan as the presence of this feature does not only improve the economic impact of the structure, but it also serves as a green feature and public safety measure. The addition of this feature minimizes the possible risk that comes with food transportation such as contamination and as well as serving as a good investment of the local government to urban farming systems. In architecture there’s no other way but to look forward, break existing human barriers, and to design for the future. With this, we proudly present, Galton De Oro: Dynamic Micro Markets of the Future.
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DYNAMIC MICRO MARKETS | submission via United Architects of the Philippines
With the on-going pandemic situation in around the world, many lives were affected. Different areas proposed limited services and amount of users to be served. Following recent rules, the movement and health activities of people are constrained to a certain environment or space and this can create problems with one’s mental and health. Therefore, instead of the people adjusting to various spaces due to the pandemic why not design various spaces that can cater to the people’s new daily needs and routines? Through research and analysis, resilient designs with a concept called “Bahaghari” (in English: Rainbow) came up. A rainbow produces a meaning of a new beginning, therefore, each spaces of the proposed site will be designed to easily adapt to the on-going and future situations. The proposed site which is an existing open area, will be divided into 4 zones; health, economic, social and educational zones. Bounded with rainbow-colored barricades. These 4 zones cater to the needs of the public, prevent having an isolation from the community and elevating the sense of importance of people. It will also provide designs which will cater the changing needs for the pre and post pandemic situation.
For the economic zone, bazaar area and a seating area surrounding a small open space will be given. Bazaar area consists of the existing rain reservoir as one of the natural features of the site is that its topography made it possible to cater a rain garden. In the educational zone, spaces for group discussions, self-study, and seeking knowledge were considered which brings to the following solutions. Learning new things is one of the things that cultivates community spirit which is part of resiliency as the community needs to come together to fight against adversities. For the health zone, it is important to consider the well-being of the people. Spaces for yoga, zuma and exercise areas were considered to improve the mobility and fitness of the people. In addition, spaces to improve relaxation are the resting area specifically for the front liners, meditations area, and zen garden. The social area comprises of picnic area, open space, and exhibit area. Aside from eating areas for families and friends, it can also accommodate those who cannot stay or eat inside restaurants due to limited capacity. The Bahaghari’s goal is to cater users from its adjacent sites such as private subdivisions, commercial and office buildings, front liners, and passers-by to give them hope. Hope to live normal lives and enjoy third places when they want or need to, given that the park is adaptive with the measures that, if not avoid, lessens the virus spread.
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BAHAGHARI | submission via United Architects of the Philippines
Location: ILHA VERDE · MACAU The formation of an image in the microscope relies on the complex inter- play between two critical optical phenomena: diffraction and interference. Light passing through the specimen is scattered and diffracted into divergent waves by tiny details and features present in the specimen. Some of the divergent light scattered by the specimen is captured by the objective and focused onto the intermediate image plane, where the superimposed light waves are recombined or summed through the process of interference to produce a magnified image of the specimen. Interference, in physics, the net effect of the combination of two or more wave trains moving on intersecting or coincident paths. The effect is that of the addition of the amplitudes of the individual waves at each point affected by more than one wave.
When two stones are dropped into a pool of water, waves spread out from each source, and interference occurs where they overlap. Constructive interference results where the crest of one coincides with the crest of the other. Two wave trains of light from a double slit produce interference, an effect that is visible on a screen as a pattern of alternating dark and light bands caused by intensification and extinction at points at which the waves are in phase and out of phase, respectively. Through a series of interference of simulation, the middle part creates a crack. Within that crack a new opportunity awaits, separating one solid object into two main part; Residential building and Commercial building, and making the bottom as the common area. This will create an immersive experience that no one ever experience before.
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INTERFERENCE | submission via Architects Association of Macau
ILHA VERDE · MACAU Green Island is located at the north-west corner of Macau Peninsula, it used to be an island surrounded by water by all sides. Over the years with Macau’s urban expansion, the Green Island it became connected to the Peninsula by a landfill. An exuberant green mountain remains at the center of the former island, giving the Green Island not only its name but also its identity. This project is deeply rooted on this site, aiming to create a new architecture and housing concept inspired by this special location. The GREEN UNIT SCAPES is a new housing prototype, aiming to create a landscape of green residential units in dialogue with nature and its surroundings.
This project is a residential building, it starts as two towers on the ground level and as they raise, they are connected on the top level, forming one whole floor plan. The key requirement for this project is to provide a green balcony for each apartment. Each floor is made of an aggregation of units, this results in rectangular volumes with a zig-zag perimeter, the introduction of a small shifting movement from floor to floor, and it produces an overlap creating a landscape of independent green balconies. The building consists of two distinct towers, one that is vertical and the other that is inclined, which dialogue and end up connecting on the fourteenth floor. On the ground floor the space between the two towers is a large public space and garden. The ground level accommodates the lobby where residents can access the towers, and commercial spaces facing the public space, the car park is located underground, and all the floors above the ground floor are residential area.
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GREEN UNIT SCAPES | submission via Architects Association of Macau
ILHA VERDE · MACAU This project design is situated in Green Island at the north-west corner of the Macau Peninsula. It is called Green Island because it used to be an island with a green mount at its center, but it is now connected to Macau by landfill. The selected site for this project is at the entrance of Green Island, located at a triangular plot between the social housing building and the University of Saint Joseph. The site is surrounded by a main road a small square and the waterfront. This project is a public library building by the Green Island waterfront with the ambition to create a new centrality and gathering place for residents and visitors. The main reason to choose this program and site is a true belief that learning should not stop after school, and the ambition to encourage people to keep on learning during their lives. With this in mind, the public library is a great fit for this area and this waterfront site with an inspiring view, is its ideal location.
The building design follows a simple concept of hanging boxes to generate dynamic set of floating volumes at different heights connected by a continuous ramp. This volumetric composition generates visual permeability, void areas and transparency throughout the building making it inviting and iconic. It allows people to look through the building from different vantage points to see the waterfront, the different spaces and paths. By having many volumes of different height, its skeleton (structure) and organs (volumes) can be intentionally shown to the outside. This unusual openness of assuming the building's organs and skeleton, creates a striking contrast to the surroundings attracting passersby. The floating library has a total of four floors, there are two spots where people can enter the library via the ramp system, the ramp goes up at one spot in a swirling way around the boxes and goes back down to exit at the other point. There is also other vertical circulation in the building with two staircases and elevators. Inside the library, there are many public programs such as, auditorium, coffee shop, retail store and study rooms ... etc. This building is inspired by the green of the Green Island and contributes to this setting by offering abundant patches of accessible grass around the building and on top of each volume creating numerous green balconies where people relax, read and socialize close to nature.
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FLOATING LIBRARY | submission via Architects Association of Macau
During the Covid-19 epidemic, the efficiency of supply delivery has become a key factor affecting the quality of quarantine. The reality is that the most efficient road in the city elevated roads, is completely vacant because it has not established effective contact with its surrounding buildings, and it has brought a lot of trouble to its surrounding buildings as well. Residents’ life will be challenged due to the lack of supply. At this time, if such buildings can transform their passive status into a supply terminal, then they can quickly receive necessary supplies and can flexibly solve urban problems at the same time. Eventually such terminals will bring about a “Resolution” in a “Resilience” and become a new urban architectural prototype to fix problems caused by elevated roads. The new architectural prototype is designed to create a new prototype for populationconcentrated apartments during the epidemic, and at the same time provide a positive solution for the renovation of buildings by the elevated roads.
The prototype is abstracted into three parts: plaza, portico, and complex. The “plaza” intends to provide a more spacious ground for pedestrians and better ventilation. The middle part is transformed into a “portico” and a parking lot, which will serve the people in the new building and neighbors while being connected to the elevated roads. The top part is transformed into a complex, which can provide services for the users and radiate the surrounding people. In this way, users can live comfortably and freely during quarantine time. In conclusion, the renovation of the mofang apartment will become a “Resilience” by design that can cope with specific problems and will be universally applied to other buildings in similar situations. Such prototype will handle such disadvantages, and serve people's life better.
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RESOLUTION BY MIXED-USE | submission via Architectural Society of China
The design proposal is, redesigning the 221 M stretch gobardanga-media bridge to recreate an interactive recreational space for my city, dealing with post COVID-19. The two sides of the 6.8M wide concrete road offer various opportunities of interaction for all. The bridge has six resting zones, three on each side, decorated with street furniture promoting social distancing. The first zone is with wooden chair-table set for two each. One can purchase food, wash hands and enjoy eating while being in this zone, gazing out over the lake and may be, have a good conversation with their significant other. The parking area opposite to the first zone is for cars and two-wheelers with arch openings on the south. This structure also has a roof made of wood and glass. The second zone is the play area for children with swings and the third one is with hammocks. You can relax lying flat, read a book, take a nap. After the play zone there’s ramp headed straight to the Ghaut. The Ghaut made of concrete with huge arch openings and vibrant colors reflecting the rich history of the city in curvilinear form is for fishing, taking bath, and to take a boat ride.
On special occasions, a special event takes place, cinema on the water, where people watch a show on a huge screen in middle of the lake riding the boats at evening. A certain portion of the Ghaut has an inclined surface to the water with barriers, reserved for old men, children and specially-abled people to enjoy the ambience. The quiet zone is all about enjoying solitude. The sitting spaces are divided with bushes in between to offer privacy. Opposite to this zone one can find two bridges over the lake supported by thick concrete columns, headed to the OAT. The OAT space which is semi covered with wave like structures have sitting space and a circular stage and from there, there’s staircase taking to the small Ghaut with space to change clothes. In front of that we have an art installation inspired by iceberg. People can climb it to take rest after swimming for a while. The second sitting space furnished with wooden chairs and plantation in between is designed keeping old men in mind. They can gather here, sit and chat while if there is any member of the friends group who is on wheelchair, he/she can occupy the red spot and chat with others. Next to it, space for vendors, basins and another sitting area are provided. The last zone is with washrooms. To maintain social distancing the footpaths are designed accordingly. One will be following the 0.6m* 2m rectangles of shades and tints of cyan and pink while walking including the neon lights. Just in the next side of the quiet zone, the pavilion is there. And last but not the least one can see another parking area for two wheelers on the east side of the last zone.
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BLINK IN NEON | submission via The Indian Institute of Architects
RESILIENCE BY DESIGN ARCASIA STUDENTS’ ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN COMPETITION 2020
JUDGING SESSION : NOVEMBER 2020
PANEL OF JURORS
CHAIRMAN Ar. Gyanendra Singh Shekhawat Chairman, ACAE
JURY
JURY
Ar. Nela De Zoysa
Prof. Pechladdha Pechpakdee
Representative from ACAE [Zone A]
Representative from ACAE [Zone B]
JURY
CONVENOR
CO-CONVENOR
Ar. So Ching
Ar. Adrianta Aziz
Ts. Idris Taib
Representative from ACAE [Zone C]
Deputy Chairman, ACAE
Member, ACAE
ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNERS: 30TH NOVEMBER 2020 ARCASIA STUDENTS’ ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN COMPETITION 2020 | Organized by Architects Regional Council Asia | Commissioned under ARCASIA Committee on Architectural Education (ACAE) | All graphics presented are for the purpose of illustration only and may not necessarily represent actual theme, brief and submission requirements | Montage work using images under Simplified Pixabay LIcense | All trademarks and intellectual properties belong to their respective owner.
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Judging poster of the ARCASIA STUDENTS’ ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN COMPETITION 2020
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ARCASIA STUDENTS’ ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN COMPETITION 2020
THE COMPENDIUM OF RESILIENCE BY DESIGN