OUT-dustrial | Event on The Edge

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Event on The Edge

Density, Urbanism, Publicness

Studio

Dr. Ruzica Bozovic Stamenovic

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Foo Jing Xi

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[noun] a platform reflecting softness and scrappiness of the current industrial streets by expressing entity of elements (solid, plane, line)

El Lissitzky Proun 19D 1920

“ It is generated by that situation. Of course it’s causally produced by that situation but in a way it changes interactively the whole situation. It’s a miracle in the sense that the event would have been an effect which is stronger than its own costs.”

- Slavoj Žižek, Event Philosophy in Transit

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A Place of Remembrance

Concept Development

Design Development

Macro Master Plan Mezzo Site Analysis Micro Site Analysis Site Characteristic Threshold Analysis User Analysis Rapid Design Response

User Analysis Research & Case Study Concept Exploration Process Iteration

Section Programmatic Spaces Plan Presentation Board

01 A Place of Remembrance [noun] redevelopment of Paya Lebar Airbase together with adjacent industrial areas

Macro Master Plan Mezzo Site Analysis Micro Site Analysis Site Characteristic Threshold Analysis User Analysis Rapid Design Response

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Site Overview

INTRODUCTION Paya Lebar Airbase (PLAB) in modern day is surrounded by neighbourhoods, industrial estates and prosperous business areas. The old kampung estate was erected in the late 90s, giving way to new industrial development.

City planning was then designed with the restriction of the Paya Lebar Airbase nearby, to be segregated from the industrial and airbase area due to setbacks and noise considerations. Reusing the airbase as a keystone in future planning brings observation towards programmatic segregation, more specifically, how do we unwrap the segregation between different programmes?

CONCEPT MASTER PLAN The concept master plan encompasses the future possibilities of PLAB and the surrounding areas with references to the competition entry of Paya Lebar Tomorrow. The vision is to transform PLAB into a dynamic urban centre by revitalising the surrounding industrial estates into a vibrant industrial city. One strategy is to introduce diversified industries to provide local small and medium enterprises with economic opportunities to support multinational corporations in Singapore. As a result, there are newly bridged opportunities for internships and collaboration between students at the proposed campus with workers at the industrial estates, supporting diverse work-life possibilities. This scales up the possibilities of redefining the city’s future industrial typology to integrate with modern society.

SITE IDENTITY The selected site is located between different new industrial estates, the new Defu Industrial Estate, Tai Seng Industrial Estate and Kaki Bukit Industrial Estate. With the oldest industrial estate nearby, the site was chosen to continue the nation’s built heritage conservation in preserving its unique industrial characteristics compared to the surrounding new development. The site mainly consists of 2 to 3 storey low-rise industrial buildings with a small building footprint and large open areas. The surrounding estates, for instance, New Defu Industrial Estate and Tai Seng Industrial Estate consist of high-rise industrial buildings of 10 storey or above. The experience is similar to walking past a “concrete block jungle” where everything is encapsulated within the building facade.

In visible distinction to those having a smaller building footprint within the chosen site, whereby productions are mostly done outside, in the outdoors, within the boundary or even by the roadside. The site feels scrappy, extruding raw clutter as work processes and storage are exposed to the passersby. In more ways than one, this brings a sense of identity to each industry despite having a standardised architectural pattern across the entire site.

Within its proximity, a temple sits strangely juxtaposed near the edge of the district in the midst of an industrial estate. The 116-year-old temple has remained through multiple development changes within the site from early kampung to industrial estate. The temple breaks the rigidity of programmes on site, it is one that engages the public to step into the industrial estate especially when there is a special occasion, for instance, the Nine Emperor Gods Festival.

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Site Overview

MICRO ANALYSIS Industrial Identity “Within a certain field of phenomena where things go on the normal flow of things, from time to time something happens which as it were retroactively changes the rules of what is possible in the sense that something happens. It is generated by that situation. Of course it’s causally produced by that situation but in a way it changes interactively the whole situation. It’s a miracle in the sense that the event would have been an effect which is stronger than its own costs.”

-Slavoj Žižek, Event Philosophy in Transit Similarly, multiple “events” have occurred within the site. Initially, the open areas were not planned for production usage. However, as time passed, people started to move out of the original building footprint unintentionally and worked within the open areas to facilitate production demand. New structures were constructed for shelter. The architectural language changes and this anomaly leaves a huge impact on the current site identity, in which the essence and sight of its manual production are captured.

Threshold can be defined as the transitional space from exterior to interior. In this case, threshold is defined as transitional space, mainly through visual connection from exterior to interior. By identifying the formal and informal threshold spaces, the aim is to conserve and recreate the old industrial identity and typology by applying the ratio obtained from the threshold analysis. The general aim is to redefine the future industrial building typology that captures the current site essence.

An analysis was first carried out on the elements that were composed as a threshold within the chosen site. Then, the arrangement of threshold hierarchy was examined. Lastly, the composition of the threshold was examined.

Threshold spaces are categorised as below: Formal Threshold (within boundary): workshop area, driveway, carpark, storage Informal Threshold (along the road): loading-unloading, carpark, storage, green space

Cultural Influence The strategic location of the temple, overviewing the entire industrial estate, creates a constant focal point throughout. The temple shows to be one of the factors to connect different user groups into the industrial site.

During special occasions, temporary tent structures are set up beside and opposite the temple to host a larger flow of public.

Natural Influence Due to the nature of the site, the chosen site is slightly sunken compared to the surrounding estates. Series of green open plots remain untouched. In a site filled with magnitudes of hardscapes, an interesting spot finds itself in the area underneath the flyover and road, creating a triple void space where nature takes over the man-made structures.

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MACRO MASTER PLAN

PAYA LEBAR FUTURE MASTER PLAN

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MACRO MASTER PLAN

PAYA LEBAR FUTURE MASTER PLAN

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MEZZO SITE ANALYSIS

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MEZZO SITE ANALYSIS

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MICRO SITE ANALYSIS

SITE CHARACTERISTIC

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SITE CHARACTERISTIC

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MICRO SITE ANALYSIS

PEDESTRIAN DENSITY

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MICRO SITE ANALYSIS

URGAN GRAPHIC

Overall Section

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MICRO SITE ANALYSIS

THRESHOLD STUDY | Identify the formal and informal threshold spaces (open working area), giving sense of identity to the industrial buildings with similar design.

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MICRO SITE ANALYSIS

THRESHOLD CHARACTERISTIC | Pedestrians are able to look through series of work done at different threshold places in hierarchy. | Sense of softness

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MICRO SITE ANALYSIS

THRESHOLD ANALYSIS

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MICRO SITE ANALYSIS

SWOT ANALYSIS

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MICRO SITE ANALYSIS

CURRENT & FUTURE USER DISTRIBUTION

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MICRO SITE ANALYSIS

PROGRAMMATIC COLLAGE

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RAPID DESIGN RESPONSE | GROUP

REDEFINING NEW INDUSTRIAL BUILDING DESIGN TYPOLOGY | Redefine the current layout of the industrial building, where everything is encapsulated within the facade. | Private work is keep within the central of the building. | Further development along the external of the facade to connect different industrial buildings.

DISPERESED APPROACH | Programmes are spreaded out across the entire site as a continuous journey. | Possible linkage along the flyover or even across the flyover, connecting the old and new industrial estate. | Possible adaptive reuse of the abandoned industrial building.

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PERSONAL |RAPID DESIGN RESPONSE

USER Observation Deck

Public able to visualise the process with spatial hierarchy.

Informal Gathering Spot

Unintentional spaces.

Formal Gathering Spot

Planned spaces for events.

SEMI-PUBLIC

Research Center

Experiment conducted. Collaboration between students and workers.

Collaboration platform

PRIVATE

Industry Building

Public can visualise the process of production.

Industry (Construction Material Production)

PUBLIC

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Separated platform.

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INDUSTRIAL BUILDING TYPOLOGY | Current

| Future

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RAPID DESIGN RESPONSE | PERSONAL

SITE SELECTION CLOSE PROXIMITY TO TEMPLE | Temple as the main node of the current site. | Staggering of planes and volumes connecting to the temple.

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PERSONAL | RAPID DESIGN RESPONSE

SITE SELECTION CLOSE PROXIMITY TO TEMPLE | The spaces underneath flyover is utilise as possible connection across the district. | Different levels of floor slab is explore to enhance connectivity.

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02 Concept Development [noun] a platform reflecting softness and scrappiness of the current industrial streets by expressing entity of elements (solid, plane, line)

User Analysis Research & Case Study Concept Exploration Process Iteration

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USER | PROGRAMMATIC PLANNING

FUTURE USER MIX Work

• Research on innovative construction materials

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• Work & analysis.

• Production & experiment.

Autonomous Collaborative Intuitive Flexible

Researcher

Worker

Start-up & Freelancers

Users

Single

Education

Student • Internship opportunity.

• Participate in the research phase.

• Possibility to meet up with strangers Families

Public

• Family gathering area.

• Educational value.

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PROGRAMMATIC PLANNING | PUBLIC

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PUBLIC

Mini Town

Replicate the real working environment of the construction and research industry in a smaller scale that are safe for kids to role play and play around.

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Gallery

Viewing of the official process in the construction industry

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Open area.

Semi-enclosed area.

No physical access but visually connected.

USER | PROGRAMMATIC PLANNING

PROGRAMMATIC PLANNING | WORKER PUBLIC (VISUAL CONNECTIVITY: OPEN)

Manual Work (Front)

Public able to visualise the process but still within working boundary.

Open area, towards the public.

No physical access.

SEMI-PUBLIC (VISUAL CONNECTIVITY: SEMI-OPEN)

Manual Work (Back)

Indirect visual connection.

Semi-enclosed area.

No physical access.

Confidential Work

Fully enclosed.

Office work

Observation Deck

Public able to visualise the process with spatial hierarchy.

Separated platform.

Informal Gathering Spot

Unintentional spaces.

Formal Gathering Spot

Planned spaces for events.

SEMI-PUBLIC

Research Centre

Experiment conducted. Collaboration between students and workers.

Collaboration platform

PRIVATE

Industry Building

Public can visualise the process of production.

Industry (Construction Material Production)

PRIVATE (VISUAL CONNECTIVITY: ENCLOSED)

PROGRAMMATIC PLANNING | STUDENT

PUBLIC

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CASE STUDY

BARCELONA PAVILION | Based on a formulaic grid system Patterning of the travertine pavers Underlying framework of the walls | The interior of the pavilion consists of offset wall places that work with the low roof plane to encourage movement. | The low profile of the roof appears in elevation as a floating plane above the interior volume.

The appearance of floating gives the volume a sense of weightlessness that fluctuates between enclosure and canopy. | Blurred spatial demarcation where the interior becomes and exterior and exterior becomes interior.

| Harmony – choice of materials Meshes the man-made and the natural employing four types of marble, steel, chrome, and glass | Harmony – exterior | interior “thresholdless” Interior and exterior spaces seamlessly blend together

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CASE STUDY

BARCELONA PAVILION | Movement within spaces Walls were used to force the visitors to follow the chosen route and meander through space.

Manipulating the cyclical movement of visitor through space A sense of discomfort upon lingering in the space was created by the conceptual arrangement of the furniture present in the whole project from the beginning.

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RESEARCH

INDUSTRIAL TYPOLOGY ONE NORTH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE | Current Industrial Typology Live Work Play

| Industry Biomedical sciences, info-communications technology and new media | Vista Xchange Highly mixed-use lifestyle, business, hotel, entertainment and transport hub, playing the role as the corporate and business support cluster for one-north, and envisioned to promote a vibrant, dynamic atmosphere. | Programmes Office & Work Area, Cafeteria, Gym, Landscape

NEW DEFU INDUSTRIAL ESTATE | Current Industrial Typology Live Work Play

| Industry Logistics, precision engineering, infocommunications and media, electronics, clean energy and biomedical | Programmes Focus on landscape planning at the street level to invite public into the site.

What if this scenario also happens at higher storey?

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RESEARCH

INDUSTRIAL TYPOLOGY | Current

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| Future (Possible Ways)

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EXPLORATION

USER RITUAL STUDY | The spend of time in the building, where people stays. The big circles corresponds to the place where people stays.

The spend of time in the building, where people stays. The big circles corresponds to the place where people stays.

Public Workshop & Classes

Student Worker Public

Worksh op Mini Town (Kid Role Play)

Experiment

Kid Worksho p

Private Company Research Center (collaboration with students)

Private Company (Office)

Research Center

Observation Deck

Seating

Event Spaces

Private Company

Additional Amenities (Toilet, Cafeteria, Gallery, Library, Shop)

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EXPLORATION

ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE | Fragmented pieces that direct movement of public. | Expressing the entity of elements.vv

Bigger volumes fragmented into smaller space.

Layering of public, semi-public, private spaces.

Blur the boundary of public, semi-public, private spaces.

Intermediate threshold spaces.

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EXPLORATION

ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE | Fragmented pieces that direct movement of public. | Expressing the entity of elements.

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EXPLORATION

ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE | Vertical and horizontal fragmented pieces interlocked. | Expressing the entity of elements.

| Volumetric approach.

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INSPIRATION

RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTIVIST INTERJECTION OF PLANE & LINE | Pure geometric forms, linearity, symmetry, repetition, simple | Interjection of Planes & Lines to create new “event spaces”

Iakov Chernikhov

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Iakov Chernikhov Suprematist Composition 1922

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El Lissitzky Proun 19D 1920

Félix Del Marle

Félix Del Marle Composition 1948

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EXPLORATION

EXTRACTION FROM SITE | 3 THEMES

EVENT

Conserving Identity

Cultural Influence

Nature and City

Preserving he ‘scrappiness’ and craft of the industries

Temple which is rich in history

Letting the natural engulf the city

CONNECTIVITY

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CONCEPT

CONCEPT SUMMARY | Aim to perform as a starting point to invite public into the industrial estate.

Aim

Create and architecture piece that acts as a testing bed, exposing the building construction material and structure.

Celebrate the local industrial and hands on heritage

Site Characteristic

Inspiration

Heritage of construction material industrial estate

Russian Constructivist

Exposing and expressing entity of elements (solid, planes, lines)

-focusing on the construction rather than on the conception of objects -made work from modest, raw or industrial materials

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1ST STOREY PLAN

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2ND STOREY PLAN

ROOF PLAN

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SECTION

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BASEMENT PLAN

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1ST STOREY PLAN

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2ND STOREY PLAN

ROOF PLAN

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ROOF

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03 Design Development [noun] a platform reflecting softness and scrappiness of the current industrial streets by expressing entity of elements (solid, plane, line)

Section Programmatic Spaces Plan Presentation Board

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SECTION

Basement

1st Storey

2nd Storey

3rd Storey

| Discovery Hall

| Imaginatarium

| Finder’s Ground

| Observation Deck

Maker Space

Research lab on innovative construction materials.

| The Hives

| Imaginatarium

Triple-height exhibition hall which introduces the users to the collections of making.

| Library | Storage | M&E Services

Meeting and working area

| Citadel (Reception) | Performance Dining Cafeteria

| Management Office

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Makerspace where users can experience diferent craft making using construction materials.

| Meeting Room | Educational Center | Management Office

Overglazing into the triple volume spaces, where the architecture itself is a model expressing elements.

| The Assemblage

Gallery showcasing a collection of crafts made in the Imaginatarium.

| Management Office

PROGRAMMATIC SPACES

GRAND ENTRANCE 1ST STOREY

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PROGRAMMATIC SPACES

FINDERS’ GROUND 1ST STOREY

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PROGRAMMATIC SPACES

LIBRARY

BASEMENT MEZZANINE

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PROGRAMMATIC SPACES

DISCOVERY HALL BASEMENT

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PROGRAMMATIC SPACES

OBSERVATION DECK & GALLERY 3RD STOREY

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PLAN

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PLAN

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PLAN

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INTERIM 1 PRESENTATION BOARD

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INTERIM 2 PRESENTATION BOARD

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