005_thesis_majullah park by Dolly Foo

L U Majullah Park: The eternal arousal of un-useless play

The eternal arousal of un-useless play

Foo Yu Yu Dolly | A0057602 Tutor: Tsuto SVakamoto | Urban and Mobility

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Following the developmental assault on the felonious red-light district of Geylang, and mounting s the Plan developmental assault the felonious red-light of Geylang, and city grime, Following the Majullah was conceived as aonreformative instrument to district aid Singaporeans in the the city. city grime, the Majullah Plan was conceived as a reformative instrument to aid Singapor the city.

[National Day Rally Speech, 18 Aug 2013] [National Day Rally Speech, 18 Aug 2013] PM Lee: We must pass on to our children a better Singapore than the one we inherited. We so, just as PM we Lee: owe what we to to ourour founding generation. PM said his responsibility We have must today pass on children a better Singapore than the one we ini build the Singapore Singapore Opportunities, Purpose, PM Assurance, so, just of as their we owedreams: what weA have today with to our founding generation. said his Commu respo a home wherebuild we celebrate our many talents, and above all, a with society where the human spirit fl the Singapore of their dreams: A Singapore Opportunities, Purpose, Assur a home where we celebrate our many talents, and above all, a society where the huma To realise these dreams, we need to do tangible things to build our city and improve our livin removal of infrastructural to the periphery the city, we can efforts To realise thesedenominations dreams, we need to do tangibleofthings to build ourrealign city and improv renaissance removal in the city core. Various boards will be to reviewing preservation andreali urb of infrastructural denominations the periphery of the strategies city, we can treatment ofrenaissance heritage enclaves and cultures, to address past accusations of cultural cleansing in the city core. Various boards will be reviewing preservation strateg ‘high culture’ was purged on a technocratic rationality. treatment of heritage enclaves and cultures, to address past accusations of cultura ‘high culture’ was purged on a technocratic rationality. PM said these longer-term plans reflect our fundamental mindset and spirit – to be confident, high. He said we these can carry off these plans, we would not have to mindset worry about running– out of PM if said longer-term plans reflect our fundamental and spirit to be in Singapore. We are creating opportunities for the our about children high. He said if wepossibilities can carry offand these plans, we would notfuture, have tofor worry run building, upgrading and reinventing our city for many more in Singapore. We are creating possibilities and years. opportunities for the future, for o building, upgrading and reinventing our city for many more years. "Together, let us forge our new way forward," he said. "Together, let us forge our new way forward," he said.

The good life is what we are taught to aspire to – the living with eudaimonia. Human flourishing i The good is what and we are taught to strangling aspire to –onthe with– eudaimonia. Human but one fraught with life rationality virtuousness itsliving end note the other side is fl B but one fraught rationality andfrom virtuousness strangling on Happiness its end note – the othe ure in the wrong places are with usually distracted leading the good life. is pleasant, in the wrong places are usually distracted from leading the good life. Happiness is give rise toure happiness. give rise to happiness. The Singaporean psyche is a repressed bundle of nerves. This national wellbeing was cultivated thr The Singaporean psyche the is aamputation repressed of bundle of nerves. national wellbeing was cul as a survivalist class, alongside people’s freedomThis to social decorum. as a survivalist class, alongside the amputation of people’s freedom to social decorum. Social control acts maximized economic development, but soon its people forgot the pleasures of li control of acts maximized economic development, soon its people in forgot the plea Pleasure is Social the condition contemporary living. It encompassesbut creative energies its grey-nes is To theprogress condition contemporary living. It encompasses creative energiesdiver in i tolerance ofPleasure policies. as of a society, we need to create environments that provoke tolerance of policies. To progress as a society, we need to create environments that pr other words, we need to cater to irrational desires and turn erratic energies into new capitals of other words, we need to cater to irrational desires and turn erratic energies into new

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Aldous Massey, The Tick of Approval

Majulah Singapura (Onward Singapore) is the national anthem of Singapore. Composed of Singapore, the song was selected in 1959 as the islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anthem when it attained adopted as Singaporeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national anthem.

Malay (official lyrics) Mari kita rakyat Singapura sama-sama menuju bahagia; Cita-cita kita yang mulia, berjaya Singapura.

Come, fellow Singaporeans Let us progress towards happiness together May our noble aspiration bring Singapore success

Marilah kita bersatu dengan semangat yang baru; Semua kita berseru, Majulah Singapura, Majulah Singapura!

Come, let us unite In a new spirit Together we proclaim Onward Singapore Onward Singapore

Marilah kita bersatu dengan semangat yang baru; Semua kita berseru, Majulah Singapura, Majulah Singapura!

Come, let us unite In a new spirit Together we proclaim Onward Singapore Onward Singapore

by Zubir Said in 1958 as a theme song for official functions of the City Council d self-government. Upon full independence in 1965, Majulah Singapura was formally

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the site (kallang airport)

Suoi Tien Cultural Center, Yangon

URA Masterplan 2008

9 sub-zones | land area: 920 ha, incl. 101 ha of water body. VISION: a centre for sports, recreation and leisure with residential developments flanking the riverbanks. NIGHT ECONOMY: To transform the Kallang planning area into a major commercial centre to capitalise on its proximity to the Central Area. In particular, under the 1998 Master Plan, Kampong Bugis, a sub-zone of the Kallang planning area, was slated to be a transition between the Central Area and the sports and recreation areas at Kallang Basin. The new planning sub-zone will be the Kallang Riverside, which refers to the both sides of the Kallang River, bounded by Nicoll Highway, Kallang Road and With a total land area of 64 ha available for development, Kallang Riverside transformed into a new lifestyle district, offering waterfront homes with an mix of retail and entertainment facilities.

areas on Sims Way. is to be exciting

WORK Aims to become a major commercial hub outside the city centre. Over 200,000 square metres of new office space added to the area. Alternative economy to the existing CBD. The resulting projected increase of 21,000 office workers in Kallang could provide the necessary pool of demand for the upcoming retail and entertainment outlets. LIVE Homes with waterfront views usually command a premium and the prices of some of these homes fall within the high-end price segment in Singapore.Future developments can also adopt a resort-style design, to take advantage of the beaches and water edge location. These new homes could also be relatively more affordable and could be priced in the mass market and mid-tier segments. The proposed 4,000 new waterfront homes will have a range of heights to ensure that scenic views of the beachfront will not be obstructed. Varying residential plot ratios of 3.5 to 5.6. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Fencelessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; development design for seamless integration of water and landscaping elements to enable pedestrian connectivity and interaction among the community. HOTELS Taking advantage of its distinctive tropical character and surrounding water features by forming a substantial hotel cluster to cater to family and business travellers. The hotel zoning will have plot ratios ranging from 2.1 to 3.5 while the white sites zoning will have plot ratios ranging from 1.5 to 4.9. There are plans for up to 3,000 hotel rooms available along the banks of the Kallang River. TOURISM The number of visitors to Singapore is anticipated to rise over the medium term from the 10 million in 2007 to about 17 million by 2015. As a result, more hotels are needed to meet the rising demand.Tourist dollar inflow vs tourist dollar outflow. PLAY Costing some $1.3 billion, the Singapore Sports Hub would be completed by 2014. The integrated complex includes a 55,000-seat capacity stadium with a retractable roof, a 6,000 capacity aquatic centre, a multi-purpose arena and over 41,000 square metres of commercial space. Singaporeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier land and sea sports, entertainment and lifestyle hub, hosting major international events and playing a critical role in taking sports in Singapore to a new level.

Spaces of indeterminacy

contain the very essence of the post-modern: ‘pluralistic, tolerances of differences and creative rebelliousness’, the antithesis to the individualistic nature of modern- ism. Here, Lim has presented a myriad of opportunities and positive energies which he believed could be harnessed from these spaces towards the formation of a national identity that is unique to the country. However, he has discussed the landscape of grime with the exclusion of threats and dangers that co-exist with the creative energies generated within.

self-regulated environments adds chaos to chaos in the most exciting

These spaces function within

and ‘continuously and surprising manner.’ Perhaps the findings from this research could propose a different angle in viewing these highly-stigmatized environments. As the usage of space within these specialized settings mirrors the nature of the transactions in the trade, assumed to be consistent from the 19th century, it entails the way these niches are used has also since been unchanging.

Having the quality of transcending the boundary of time, the redlight areas in Singapore could be received as niches frozen in time, a ‘timeless space’ untouched by the impact of modernity. In a country which revolves around the element of speed and change, these spaces could be an important relief in a country as they offer the opportunity for nostalgia. Conceivably, the studies raises the question of how a modern space should be defined, whether by means of technological advancement within the built surroundings or the way such space is utilized by people in their everyday life. William S. W. Lim, Alternative (Post) Modernity: An Asian Perspective (Singapore: Select Publishing, 2003.),

Abner Dean, Do you schock easily? (1949)

the field (geylang)

Interior space of a terrace house unit

Interior of a typical â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;massage parlourâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Interior of a half a shophouse unit (rowell)

In this hyper-connected world of control

the desire of hiding is still very human.Either as a result of social technologies,

exclusion, marginal lifestyles, antimainstream behaviors, political statements, existential meditations, religious beliefs, economic difficulties or utopian experiments, it is necessary to look at the shelters that house such aspirations of disconnection from the network society.

Interior of typical brothel on Lorong 18

Who What When Why How

How to Disappear

HEDONISTIC URBANISM FROM BODY TO IMMATERIALITY Precedents to Immateriality

bathhouse

pool

The presence of body disappears into the urban form . The observations of conspicuous leisure changes with time. Conspicuous leisure is a term introduced by the American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen, in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). The term denotes visible leisure for the sake of displaying social status. The term is generally reserved for those forms of leisure that seem to be fully motivated by social factors, such as taking long vacations to exotic places and bringing souvenirs back. Conspicuous leisure is a symptom observed in individuals in all societies where stratification exists. Veblen’s more wellknown “conspicuous consumption” is a type of conspicuous leisure.

gymnasium

amusement park

discotheque

shopping mall

a digitised incongurency

geylang

release (convergence)

guilt

the home is guarded by plants, but the house is always welcoming

vertical punctures or lot amalgamation

fuzzy boundaries are good for business

the house refuses the street. the car is anonymous.

signboards becomes the third façade.

the life is on the sidewalk. Geylang and the Google Van: Through the innocuous eye on the street

pleasure-seeking is a condition of the contemporary

DIRT

Dirt as a social construct. -Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Con-

‘Conservation’ and architectural whitewashing as symptomatic of a Dorian Grey affliction.

ʻMATTER OUT OF PLACEʼ front and back rt as architectural element as social/cultural constru

allery (Bangkok, R&Sie). Their response to the dusty atmosphere of the city: An aluminium lattice is draped ove charge running through it. The static attracts and holds dust, which gradually forms the exterior of the building outside, clean as a cosmetics counter on the inside, as though a Victorian dust-yard has enveloped a space stat rior skin as an interface with the outside world and the interior as an artificial world. Element of Time

Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and

lorong 24A shophouse series

jekyll & hyde conundrum

Government bans Playboy magazine. ElmgreenDragser Powerless Structures.

the proletariat poet factory

Hippie hairtyles challenges social order, public decorum dictated by social cohesion.

yuppies buzz out in shophouse parties

The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief (2006)

requiem for a dream

When people ask me what a host does,

of selling dreams to people.

I say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a business

-Issei, owner of host club Ryakko

FUN HOUSE

MOVEMENT / TIME / INDETERMINANCY

FUN HOUSE

MOVEMENT / TIME / INDETERMINANCY Cedric Price, Fun House, 1960-1961, unbuilt

Cedric Price, Fun Palace, 1960-61, unbuilt

the proposal

The paradox of hedonism: pleasure cannot be acquired directly, it can only be acquired indirectly.(Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics) Aristotle also commented on the futility of pursuing pleasure. Human beings are actors whose endeavors bring about consequences, and among these is pleasure. Aristotle then argues as follows: How, then, is it that no one is continuously pleased? Is it that we grow weary? Certainly all human things are incapable of continuous activity. Therefore pleasure also is not continuous; for it accompanies activity.(Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics) Sooner or later, finite beings will be unable to acquire and expend the resources necessary to maintain their sole goal of pleasure; thus, they find themselves in the company of misery. * Colour aids in the reading of sequenced experiences - alluding less to the disjuntion in formal composition, and more to the experiential quality of transition - the shock factor as one transit from a spatial atmosphere to something unannounced. From the circulatory rings above, the coloured forms momentarility confuses the legibility of the repetitious forms within each square. The conjoined forms in adjacent squares reads as one building- or two? Each perculiar instance of encounter become expressed as an architectural jigsaw that is murky as brackish water.

programmatic listing

programmatic natures

LEGEND 001__tower of happiness 002__hostel 003__data center 004__create office 005__emporium 006__house of slumber 007__integration center 008__tower of objectivity 009__planetarium 010__vertical shuttle 1 011__the mountains 012__skate park 013__house of harmony 014__vertical shuttle 2 015__comic parlour 016__motel 017__institute of oceanography 018__vertical shuttle 3 019__gymnasium 020__wellness training facility 021__park space 022__park space 023__silent capsules 024__park space 025__national fertility center 026__ministry of aesthetics 027__kallang arena 028__house of horror 029__nap pods 030__market place 031__kallang library 032__buffet town

experiential matrix

033__honeymoon villa 034__house of illusion 035__majullah tower 036__memorial to civility 037__discovery chamber 039__vertical shuttle 4 040__salon des refuses 041__gaming arcade 042__mtv academy 043__the conservatory 044__fountain of vitality 045__the classrooms 046__indeterminate space 047__indeterminate space 048__temple of magma 049__indeterminate space 050__festival ground 051__clubbing republik 052__vertical shuttle 5 053__archives department 054__lazy rivers 055__public bath 056__prawning pods 057__tower of disonance 058__indeterminate space 059__old terminal building 060__free space 061__pocket theatre 062__drive in cinema 063__transit hotel 064_tower of refuge

organisational relations

Free-4-All The City as an unstable series of systems, in continual transformation, constantly reorganizing and rearranging itself through processes of both expansion and retraction. Synecdoche: using a word in a sense which is part of another meaning of the same word / expands spatial element in order to make it play the role of a “more” and eventually take its place Asyndeton: supression of linking words such as conjuntions and adverbs Synecdoche makes dense: it amplifies the detail and miniaturizes the whole. Asyndeton cuts out: it undoes continuity and undercuts it plausibility. A space treated in this way and shaped by practices is transformed into enlarged singularities and seperate islands. Through these swellings, shrinkings, and fragmentations, that is, through these rhetorical operations a spatial phrasing of an analogical (composed of juxtaposed citations) and ellipitcal (made of gaps, lapses and allusions) type is created. For the technological system of a coherent and totalizing space that is “linked” and simultaneous, the figures of pedestrian rhetoric subsitutes trajectories that have a mythical structure, at least if one understands by “myth” a discourse relative to the place/nowhere (or origin) of concrete existence, a story jerry-built out of elements taken from common sayings, an allusive and fragmentary story whose gaps mesh with the social practices it symbolises.” Guy Debord, The Naked city (1957)

Coded Flesh The sensory bandwidth of a human is about 11 million bits-per-second. With emotional interface technology at this bandwidth, flesh can be coded. As networks grow and become preferred environments in which to socialise and interact, the private/social sphere will expand and we will grow familiar with communications on more intimate levels. Tactile commonication will be included as it naturally beclongs to the expressive tollbox of human communication. As the resultant emotional interface provide higher bandwidth and resolution, sexuality might even become a better metaphor for social interaction than speech. Sensually corporeal, communication will go beyond the shallow surface of the visual interface and definitively attract more attention. - Solve et Coagula Bodysuit Projecth

L-R from top: this page and next Introverted spaces: Quiet Capsule and Honeymoon Villa Calculated performance: Discovery Chambers and Drama Box Exhibitionistic spaces: Bathhouse and Skate Park Voyeuristic spaces: The Gymn and the Mountain House

The end of the spectacle brings with it the collaspe of reality into hyperrealism, the meticulous reduplication of the real, preferably through another reproductive medium such as advertising or photography. Through reproduction from one medium into the other, the real becomes volatile, it becomes the allegory of death, but it also draws strength from its own destruction, becoming the real for its own sake, a fetishism of the lost object which is no longer of representation, but the estacsy of the degeneration and its own ritual extermination: the hyperreal. - Jean Baudrillard, Symbolic Exchange and Death

A billion -dollar fitness industry now caters to our alienation and obsession with inertness and the art of staying in place: Stairmasters, treadmills, bicycle machines, rowing machines and so forth. As electrons replace the need for â&#x20AC;&#x153;being thereâ&#x20AC;?, and as our bodies are required for less and less manual labor, it becomes readily apparent that the trend in our culture towards excessive exercise is not merely a passing fad. We unconsciously intuit the need to keep our bodies strong and healthy. As the regime of invisible technology takes logistic grip, we are development an even more obsessive appetite for sculpting and morphing our physical selves. Not just through exercise but through the indiscriminate use of plastic surgery. We crave to shape skin and bone as effortlessly as we manipulate pixels on our screen. Perhaps it is not strictly narcissism at work, but a latent drive in the species to avoid utter extinction, a denial of our own mortality.

The iconic Oasis pavillions resurrected as quayside dining.

View of city of refuge from the Majullah Tower

preliminary designs

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renaissance

FORTIFIED

LABYRINTH

geylang

( Defensible Nutrients )

The 21stC. Poche is Invisible Opportunity: “If the feral city is a city with no external walls but an infinite interior—endless spaces made of oblique architecture and indirect streets—then its ability to defend itself comes precisely through letting invaders in and disorienting them, not by keeping people out.” Proposal: 1_ Simulate ‘heritage’ through reconstruction of lorongs 2_ Complement with a thickened ring of hospitable skyscraper 3_Preserve Old Kallang Airport Building just because. The old axis counters the axial.

HOTEL HOTEL

URBANISM URBANISM

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TRANSPORT (TERMINAL)

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feel as if the community is theirs.

The above images presents a series of incongruent and discontinuous map of Geylang by 6 different subjects with different levels of interaction with the neighbourhood’s ecology. From Top Left to right: 1) Map by Subject A, 23 y.o. who spent her childhood years in Aljunied, but barely encountered the real Geylang back then. 2) Map by Subject B, 25 y.o. a heartlander who seldom goes to Geylang, except to enjoy the occasional supper with his group of friends. 3) Map by street rescue group volunteers, dated oct 2012.

sampling of community vs a place to sleep BUILT! A! MOUNTAIN! after payar lebar airbase There is a height restriction of 280 metres (919 ft) for structures in the central business district (only Raffles Place, Marina Bay Sands, Kallang River, Kallang and Mountbatten) of Singapore because of the proximity of Paya Lebar Airbase

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medical tourism

Tourists

mobility

CASE STUDY: TIMES SQUAR simulated LEGISLATION WRITE + PHO envt. $

The Economics of Hospitality

hotel recreation

HOTEL URBANISM ONE-STOP LEISURE CENTER FOR DOMESTIC TOURISTS Free-4-All urbanism vs tourism Old Kallang Airport (Built:1937decomissioned:1955) Measure A - limitINTENT set to new hotels: 25 units or fewer. h/r 25 001_singapore night festival History: First purpose-built civil airport + anchorage for seaplanes. Built units is below the economic threshold for most hotel model. Most up toondate belly fatfrom removal surgery reclaimed swamp Kallang Basin, the airfield is circular, with a party 002_full-moon Thelodges)measure City as an unstable systems, (limited to b&b or a appliesseries until of average oc- in continual that not only minimizes your waistline slipway forbut seaplanes. cupancy for a year reaches 80% (but not possible for a townitself through 003_telescreen constantly reorganizing and rearranging Artefacts: Art-deco style building, Oasis Building, Hangar, airalso helps you gain 6 packs orTerminal sexy body with mainly weekend visitors?). 004_drive-in rooftop cinema expansion and retraction. fields turned into recreational area incl National Stadium + Indoor Stadium curves. Able for shower after 2 days and no

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Proposal: Proposal: 1_ Geylang Geylang is is LOW LOW -END -END GLOBALISAGLOBALISA1_ TION TION URBAN GHETTO URBAN GHETTO

GUEST

Precedents to Immateriality

HOST

Brothels c.1917

ACTOR-NETWORK relational chart

individual brothel owner street gambler

punters

freelance streetwalker (PRC)/(transsexual SG)/(Thai)/(Indon)

backpacker dreamer

dreamer street barber

informant

illegal cigarette peddler

couple adulterers backpackers

pimps

heterosexuals

runners

foreign worker + maid punter + prostitute

fw + prostitute

gambling den operators

JOINT AMENITIES AND FACILITIES.

mamashop macik

group

families

mafia

makan kakis coffeeshop retirees

foreign worker (prc)

friends foreign worker (s.asian) friends

pool

gymnasium

outreach volunteers businessmen religious groups

punters

amusement park

fw illegal streetwalkers sex workers w/yellow pass P clan houses police residents religious institutions KTVs hostess

everybody

singaporean

discotheque

heartlander

heterosexuals

coffeeshop hawkers office workers

everyone who seeks good $$$

shopping mall

non-singapore citizen moral majority

proletarian

foreign tourist

domestic tourist p

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w i

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locals

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HOSPITALITY HOSTILITY

XTON TON

WHICH IS YOUR GEYLANG?

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“Synecdoche makes more dense: it amplifies the detail a whole. Asyndeton cuts out: it undoes continuity and und bility. A space treated in this way and shaped by pract into enlarged singularities and seperate islands. Throu shrinkings, and fragmentations, that is, through these tions a spatial phrasing of an analogical (composed of tions) and ellipitcal (made of gaps, lapses and allusio Located in City Center ated. For the technological system of a coherent and to is “linked” andc.1900 simultaneous, the figures of pedestrian c.2013 tutes trajectories that have a mythical structure, at l stands by “myth” a discourse relative to the place/nowh concrete existence, a story jerry-built out of elements sayings, an allusive and fragmentary story whose gaps m practices it symbolises.”

Spaces of discomfort is traced out across the site from the point of view of a domestic voyeur. Being an outsider to a secretive ecology, there are certain etiquette to abide by - rule number 1 - always defer/show your respect to the boss. The series of serial vision below are reconstructed fragments of sites ini Geylang, those shot with digital camera details spaces of curiosity where I felt uninhibited to take a shoot, whereelse those filled in by sketches are spaces where I felt it would be rude to take a picture.

preliminary designs