Core Studio 2 (CCCDA)

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CORE Studio Sequence II Spring 2019, ASD, SUTD

BREAKING OUT OF THE BLACK BOX: C.C.C.D.A Breaking out of the Black Box is a call to claim design agency from black box technologies that increasingly govern the internal experiences of buildings. Differentiated from post war technologies that spurred the work of Archi gram and Cedric Price, current technology development is progressively personal, invisible, and divorced from existing formal architecture design language/repertoire. Increasingly, buildings and spatial environment are left behind in the imagination of new worlds, and their primary role seems to be the provision of comfort/stability/mask to imminent realities of the world.

Studio Tutor: Christine Yogiaman Students: Ahmad Rashidi Bin Razali Chan Jia Qi, Audrey Emir Hamzah Bin Mustaffa Qamal Goh Min Rui Ho Di Xiang Darren Kate Kiang Ching Lau Ruiqi Rachel Lee Jun Wei, Sean Lee Qian Yi Jeanette Natalie Tsang Yan Ting Nurul Nabilah Izzati Bte Rohaizad Tan Yong Shin Matthew Wong Shu Miin Naomi Xiao Yiming

Reconnection of the building construct to new technology terrain calls for new narratives/scenarios that enable the architect to associate new roles/meanings to buildings. To be explicit in this argument, the studio draws parallel to the creation of science fiction. The existence of this genre requires a demanding level of “World-Building”, where writers/screenwriters sets a new understanding of how the world works, using aspects of history and timelines, politics and religion, civilization’s development, technological development and its consequences, cultures and other settings (i.e. biology, ecology, geology, astronomy, architecture, populations). The stories that then unfold in science fiction novels or movies are enabled by the rules and values that World-Building affords it. The studio believes architects need to be centre in the creation of a new narrative where buildings and the built environment exists in an increasingly invisible, digitized world.

The genesis of this new narrative will come from the task of designing a building for the Centre of Contemporary Cultural Digital Archive (C.C.C.D.A); an institution that is yet to exists, and at current reading, presents conflicting identities. The studio will start by reading into these conflicts as an initiation to the studio’s new narrative for the archival work of C.C.C.D.A. These narratives will be fuelled by the re-imagination of existing urban, transportation, environmental, economical networks and logistics. Working within this new constructed narrative defined with collective effort in Week 4, each student will propose their version of a C.C.C.D.A building for the remaining weeks of the semester.

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Lee Qian Yi Jeanette CORE Studio Sequence II Spring 2019, ASD, SUTD

C.C.C.D.A: THE INSTITUTE Social networking is an integral part of modern culture and becomes increasingly so every new generation of users. The amount of time and effort spent on social media continues to grow and is causing a shift in importance onto social media as the main means of communication.

However, social media distorts our understanding of the individual’s impact on others. The ability to access a gobal audience gives the social media user a larger range of influence over the online community. At the same time, the same social media user is confronted with the reality of his overwhelming smallness in a sea of voices. As a result, users undermine the ripples that they can individually create in the online community.

The CCCDA anticipates a generation where social networking becomes the most important way of communication and aims to help redevelop and strengthen people’s understanding of their individual roles as well as relationships with others in the online world.

C.C.C.D.A: THE BUILDING The building of the CCCDA is an exhibition cum performance venue where artists are invited to develop interactive artwork that inspire understanding of the social media phenomena. Visitors are welcome to either participate in the artwork or simply observe.

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Images show the average time spent on instagram by two users Adults 18+ spent on average 45 minutes per day on social media during the first quarter of 2018, with most of that time coming from smartphones.

THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL DIGITAL ARCHIVE, C.C.C.D.A Statistics showing how social media affects users emotionally. (Rani Molla, recode.com)

According to a study from the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, the more time young adults spend on social media, the more likely they are to perceive themselves as socially isolated. This reflects the findings of a survey performed by Relationships Australia in 2011, which found that it’s predominantly young people that are feeling lonely. (www.cbhs.com)

Tweets using the #jan25 hashtags during the 2011 Egyption revolution The digital media affordances, available to both collective and individual actors, translate into capabilities afforded to social movements (Tufecki, 2014). The role of these digital media technologies in collective action has to be studied and the actual mechanisms uncovered. Commenting on the role of social media in Egypt’s uprising a leader of the movement stated that “if there was no social networks … Without Facebook, without Twitter, without Google, without YouTube, this would never have happened” (CBS 2011).

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The “Stage” is the prototypical unit of a building wherethe physical and digital overlap is at its most critical moment to reinforce and demonstrate the vision and intention of the Institute.

The development of the “Stage” component begin the physical articulation of the narrative.

AXONOMETRY OF STAGE UNIT ASSEMBLY

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TOPOLOGICAL STIUDY OF STAGE UNIT GEOMETRY

AXONOMETRY OF STAGE UNIT GRID ARRAY (Dormant)

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AXONOMETRY OF STAGE UNIT GRID ARRAY (Active)

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SECTION PERSPECTIVE OF STAGE UNIT GRID ARRAY

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COLOR AND LIGHT SAMPLE FROM MOVIE SCENE: SPIRITED AWAY

TIME CAPTURES OF FIRST SEQUENCE

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SCENE DEVELOPMENT. DECONSTRUCTION OF PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL INTERACTION IN A CONFINED AREA AND TIME:

TIME

SEQUENCE CAPTURES

PLAN DIAGRAM

Location vs Time Interaction Graph

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VIEWS DIAGRAM

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BUILDING SECTION PERSPECTIVE

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BUILDING LONG SECTION

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BUILDING SHORT SECTION

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SITE PLAN

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FIRST FLOOR PLAN

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REFLECTED CEILING PLAN

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