ALT oge T her

Are the city animals we see everyday a herald of spring?

At our site, George St. in Sydney, feeding nurtures mynas, whose existence threatens native species.

Also, in between the light rail stops, small businesses are struggling, as attention has been drawn to the light rail.

We consider diversity as a positive solution – every one of us belongs here.

To realize this, cycles are altered in our design. Foods can be recycled in the installation: It would go through a mill for shredding, and an Archimedes screw for delivery upwards, where the food would be composted. The installation has a native rain garden, providing habitat for local species and filtering the rainwater.

This progressive program starts with a single object, where people can nurture native floras while reducing the feeding for urban birds. Awareness of protecting native species would rise.

Multiple installations would link reserves nearby, reintroducing local species. Local businesses could join this process, providing services to make spinning a rewarding and adventurous experience.

The final step would connect the installations via a cable system. This system would take the bags only, which is energy efficient, with the help of shopping bags’ gravitational potential.

People of similar interests can join together around the business they want, forming communities.

Existing Loops

1. Mynas aggressively compete with native fauna for nesting sites, reducing habitat for native birds. They threaten other birds, often mobbing them in large groups. Feeding leads the mynas to thrive, threatening local birds’ survival. Alternation causing decrease in native flora - an overall biological declination.

2. Tram driving, driving customers away from small businesses, driving people away from opportunities - the chance of meeting new friends.

Stage 1

ALTeration for interest.

The first step introduces the structure as a standalone object. People can nurture native floras while reducing the feeding for urban birds. Awareness of protecting native species would rise, while this new attraction spot would draw the public’s attention from the tram.

Food and shelter for native species

Food

Stage 2

an ALTitude for another living friend.

With more installations, the structures would fill the habitat blank between nature reserves, reintroducing local species. Local businesses could join this process, providing services to make spinning a rewarding experience that is full of discovery. People of same interest can raise conversation together, creating new friendship.

Stage

ALTered to live ALTogether.

The final step would connect the installations via a cable system. Instead of carrying people, shopping bags and carriages, this system would take the bags only. It would have minimal energy cost, as the shopping bags travel from the higher to the lower part more here. People of different interests can form communties around the installations, overlaying to form a new community, which would replace the present system for transportation only.

The project is an architectural design experiment, that aims to explore and develop the potentiality of a museum space, for it to adapt to the usage of Blind and Low Vision community visiting the museum exhibition.

The musical and its stage has incorporated the tradition curation of historical artefacts with tactility and sound.

This project starts from the translation of a touch object series including a Roman head sculpture, made between 200 BC-100 AD, paired with a skeleton of Globicephala (pilot whale) from Pacific waters.

The artefacts are in exhibition Roman Spectre and Natural Selections at the Chau Chak Wing museum, the University of Sydney.

Tactile Map of the Humpback Whale Migration

North North

North

North

Continent

Continent

Continent

Ocean

Tactile to hear an extended

Ocean

Ocean

Rome

Rome

Continent feeding

Ocean

Rome

Rome feeding

Feeding

Breeding

Feeding

Breeding

Breeding

Breeding

Whale route

Whale Route

Whale route

Whale Route

- Audience can touch the sculptures to feel their forms, weight and textures.

- The sound of Roman heads resembles the pipe music used for military order giving in Ancient Rome.

- The sound of whale skull resembles the songs sang by whales to communicate long distance under water.

- This dialogue gradually blurs the definition of which language is used by the humans and which one is used by the whales.

Tactile Map of the Trading Route of Ancient Roman Empire

- The heads are whispering to each other.

Whispering Heads - Echoes of stories

The third model is a recording device embedded in a Roman head sculpture replica that is able to capture one’s whispers and replay it to the other Roman head and also other audiences.

- The other audiences will thus answer to the second head about their own stories, in their languages and their time frame.

- The audience can whisper into the heads, leaving their stories inside this matrix of fragments.

- Striking on the shorter chords, the audience will hear clicks and pulsed calls that are similar to a whale’s sound.

Instrumental Device : Ensemble of whales and Romans

The forth model is a musical device whose sound reminds one of the clicking 52Hz rhythms of whales and also the lyre harp of Ancient Rome.

- Then the conversation continues on and on, with the whispers eroding away and entangling to become a new language that echoes and echoes in the museum space.

- The sound of whale skull resembles the songs sang by whales to communicate long distance under water.

- The audience could strike on the longer chords to hear the Roman songs.

- Audience can touch and play with the model to understand how whales swim and move.

A project that is not about building something brand new, but about adapting.

The project imagines a combination between the efficient urban hydroponic farming and the existing multistory car park building in Singapore’s residential HDB blocks through a modest reconstruction that however achieve a lot into a complex which also includes on the roof top of it. The second flexible community centre and the third, remaining car parking area.

With background research, three factors are fundamental to this adaption. The first is about food security. Because of the ‘30 by 30’ plan, Singapore government is eager to exploit more chance of urban farming in city.

The second is the car lite plan of Singapore. Car ownership will reduce a lot, ideally. This will make us rethink how can we adapt the infrastructure for cars into other function in future.

And another one is the inevitable problem of hotter Singapore. What can architects do more about this type of adaption and what potentials can be realized through architectural way.

Stomata acts as a portal between inside and outside : Absorbing CO2, releasing O2 and H2O, as well as transpiration effect. The design of pods is an analogy of the stomata. It penetrates the building and re-connects the relationship between inside and outside. On the other hand, in the scale of a city, the green buildings can be perceived as the stomata of the city fabric.