THE PROJECT IS ABOUT PATHWAYS, CONNECTIONS AND NETWORKS: EXISTING AND EMERGING ONES. IT IS THROUGH CONNECTIONS AND NETWORKS THAT MEETINGS AND COLLISIONS OCCUR. THESE ARE AREAS AND MOMENTS WHERE THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS ARE SHARED OR DISMISSED, PRODUCING RIPPLES OF AFFECT. THESE AFFECTS MAY PRODUCE NOTHING OF “MERIT” OR SIGNIFICANCE. BUT HERE AND THERE, LIKE A THROW OF A DICE, CHANCE OCCURRENCE MAY PRODUCE DIVERGENCE AND CONVERGENCE; AND YES: SINGULARITIES - SUCH THAT THE OLD MAY BE REFRESHED OR MORPHED INTO NEW EMERGENCE. FOR NIETZSCHE, THIS IS TRUTH. FOR TRUTH IN NIETZSCHE IS NOT RESIDING IN IDENTITY; MATCHING AND AUTHENTICATING ONE PRODUCT OR A COPY TO AN ORIGINAL AND JUDGING IT. HE IS NOT AN IDEALIST THINKER WHERE PRODUCTION IS FASHIONED AND JUDGED TO PERFECT MODELS EXISTING IN SOME ETERNAL SPACE. FOR HIM, IT IS BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL/ CORRECTNESS OR INCORRECTNESS/ RIGHT OR WRONG . THESE ARE CULTURAL OR VIRTUOUS VALUES LEGITIMIZED BY SOCIETAL PROCESSES OF WHICH INTEREST GROUPS EXERT THEIR INFLUENCE THROUGH DISCOURSE AND LANGUAGE. BUT THE QUESTION ASKED BY NIETZSCHE IS THE INTERSUBJECTIVE EXCHANGE OR OBJECT’S INTRINSIC VALUE PRIOR TO THEM ACQUIRING ITS CULTURAL VALUE, STATUS OR MEANING. HENCE, NIETZSCHE SHIES AWAY FROM CODES, LANGUAGE OR IDENTITY. FOR HIM, IT IS ABOUT SENSE AND THE PRODUCTION OF SENSE PRIOR TO LANGUAGE, CODES AND IDENTITY. IT IS THEREFORE NOT SURPRISING TO HEAR WHAT NIETZSCHE HAD TO SAY ABOUT CONNECTIONS AND TRUTH. FOR IN MAKING CONNECTIONS, THE RESULTING DIVERGENCE AND CONVERGENCE PRODUCES AFFECT/ SINGULARITIES. USING THE METAPHOR “WAY” AS PATHWAY, NIETZSCHE SAID HOW HE CAME TO HIS TRUTH. IT WAS CERTAINLY NOT BY ONE DEFINED WAY BUT THROUGH MANY WAYS - FOR THAT ONE WAY HAD NOT EXISTED OR HAD COME INTO BEING. READING IN BETWEEN THE LINES, THE PROJECT FOLLOWING NIETZSCHE IS AN EXPERIMENT OR A PROCESS INTO THE UNKNOWN SINCE NO DEFINED WAY EXISTED. THE PROJECT SITE IS CENTERED ON JURONG EAST MRT STATION. THE SITE IS BOUNDED BY JURONG EAST STREET 11, JURONG TOWN HALL ROAD, BOON LAY WAY AND JURONG EAST CENTRAL. AND TRUTH BE TOLD, THE PREVIOUS STUDIO DID WORK ON THIS AREA LAST SEMESTER. AND THEY PRODUCED AN “URBANISTIC” PLAN. THIS URBANISTIC PLAN DRIVES TO FACILITATE MOVEMENT AND CHANGE TO TURN WHATEVER THAT IS “PRIVATE” INTO A COMMONWEALTH. THE KEY TO THIS IS THE USE OF A PREDOMINANT STRUCTURE SO PERVASIVE THAT WHILE PROVIDNG STABILITY, THE STRUCTURE FACILITATES POSSIBLE OR POTENTIAL “CONNECTIONS”: CONNECTIONS ALL READY TO BLUR OR STAND READY TO PENETRATE THE PRIVATE BY THE COMMON. THE COMMON THEREFORE HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PENETRATE INTO THE REALM OF THE PRIVATE AND COLONIZE IT. YOUR PROJECT IS TO EXPAND AND TAKE THIS AGENDA FURTHER INTO YOUR OWN INDIVIDUAL PROJECT. YOU ARE TO PICK OR DEVISE A PROGRAM THAT ALLOWS YOU TO INVENT AND DRAW MORE CONNECTIONS ANALOGOUS TO RHIZOMES RUNNING ACROSS YOUR SITE, BLOCKS OR EVEN PARTIAL BLOCKS DEPENDING ON THE NATURE OF YOUR PROBLEM. - WONG CHONG THAI BOBBY, JANUARY 2017
PLAN B STUDIO BOBBY WONG, MOBILITY + URBANISM, B.A. (ARCH) 4, SEMESTER 2. ACADEMIC YEAR 2016-2017
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CONTINGENCIES
ABJECT DOMESTICATION: REFUSE AND REFUGE BY LIN DERONG
DELEUZIONAL BRIDGE BY JEFFERSON JONG
SPEEDSCAPE BY CHEONG YONG EN GRACE
當中心 [ PAWN CENTRE ] BY YEE ZHI YUAN JASPER
THE SANCTION BY GEOFFREY NEO JIE HAO
PHALANX BY TAN WEI CHIANG, DELWIN
THE HIVE BY DANG BAO BAO
OASIS 20X20 BY STEPHAN SHEN YIZHE
RECONNECTING WITH JURONG EAST - INN BY CHIN YI HUI CLARABELLE
RECONNECTING TO JURONG EAST ELIZABETH HO XIN YING
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POWER
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CULTURAL ARTEFACT
TECHNIQUES + TECTONICS
INFRASTRUCTURE + ECOLOGY
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Wasp attempting to mate with an orchid. http://goose.ycp.edu/~kkleiner/ EvolBio/EvolBiolabs/
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ABJECT DOMESTICATION: REFUSE AND REFUGE BY LIN DERONG
Building typologies are failing. As Moores Law, environmental degradation and Market forces propel our society ahead, our environment can no longer keep up with our incessant desires for space and comfort. Paving the way to paradise and our exploration of what comfort is, we purge what we perceive as ugly, filth, sinful, taboo, defilement – the abject – outside of ourselves. Yet today, as we become liberated from fixed identities through the constant repositioning of ourselves within the larger geopolitical context, these are the very elements that are vital to maintain the ecology, our shifting identities and power balance in our society.
1. In Deleuze’s terms, his cartographic approach to subjectivity and his reflections on control and transformative potential of becoming, brings out the immanence – the “becoming”. The hosting infrastructure seeks to explore a series of possibilities produced by any act of becoming – Nomad, Indiscernible, Queer, Green, Object, Imperceptible – where each type of affective becoming marks new processes of deterritorialization.
This project is an extension of the urban design, It’s a Jungle Out There and Common Ground. It is an infrastructure, a building development host, an alternative building technique, a deterritorial space for an insertion of dwelling refuge and an inquiry of what is to come1. This manifests itself into a cluster of affects: A seemingly impenetrable, thick and dense structure which rises up from the girder, between the existing blocks proposed by Common Ground, to allow for modes of expansion, propagation, occupation, contagion and ‘peopling’. It performs as a strong building core to mediate building blocks, house building services, maintain an urban ecology, propagates dwelling units to latch on and disallows a normative room to room space planning. Therefore, the “Jungle” within the architecture is not an imitation of nature. It is however, a set of condition that is set-up to expand/ contract with or without institutional support. Through its sameness and structural “chaos”, differences are revealed. Like languages prior to words, its pervasive physical manifestation is a form of indirect speech that is perceived by different people in different ways. As refuge seekers colonise these spaces, they assemble and dismantle their deployable units while expelling exhaust air, grey and soil water out to nourish/ harm the environment. Therefore, through this notion of the abject (outside) and comfort (inside), the project anticipates an Anthropocene that brings out new bodies and communities. Infrastructure, Ecology and Connections
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DELEUZIONAL BRIDGE BY JEFFERSON JONG
The project started as an attempt to understand the ‘first cinema’ and ‘second cinema’ that were coined by Gilles Deleuze as well as the ‘third cinema’ which was developed much later. The ‘first cinema’ deals with ‘time-image’ due to camera’s technological limitation in the past. The camera stood still and the director’s focus was the composition of each frame. The ‘second cinema’ acts as antithesis of the ‘first cinema’ and focuses on ‘time-movement’ in a way that camera is portable and could capture the movement of the actors and story rather than a composition of a single frame. The two movements share a key similarity which is the separation between the subject matter of the movie and the audience. On the contrary, there is no such separation in the ‘third cinema’ movies. The ‘commons’ are often featured as the subject matter and the movies are captured from their point of view as well, making the audience and the movie as one. Deleuzional bridge is a different take on the idea of a bridge in the new Jurong CBD by bringing the element of the ‘third cinema’ in response to previous semester’s Jurong CBD masterplan. This is done by highlighting the commons in the project and giving them the liberty to narrate their own experience on this bridge. The masterplan envisions a network of skybridges that serves as ambulatory means for the people in the development to get from a point to another. With the aims of giving equal opportunity of the commons, a typical skybridge could potentially defeat its objective due to it’s exclusive nature. The project provides a platform for the displaced blue collar workers due to the new development to access the skybridge to interact with one another as well as with the white collars by providing a nonpartisan space on this elevated network. The project aims to eschew a typical concept of a bridge that serves as a means to an end that connects people from one point to another only but rather a space where the commons have the liberty to pass by, stop, observe and interact with one another.
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SPEEDSCAPE BY CHEONG YONG EN GRACE
The nodal opportunities of the site presents itself within the Central Business District (CBD) planned for the region of Jurong East. In recognition of this, the project aims to replace the existing bus interchange with a bus station to cater to the needs of the projected CBD. In addition, the transitory space between the existing Jurong East MRT station and the new bus station acts as a sorting machine, serving to filter and mediate the congestion caused by increased pedestrian traffic flows brought into the area through the provision of different landscapes for different speeds of pedestrian uses. The various circulation paths and retention spaces provided for various activities cater to different speeds of movement and uses for the masses, ensuring that congestion is not merely channeled from one location to another.
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[1.1.1] Becoming Imperceptible. The “fertility” induction on site. Image Reference:
-Ong, Donna, (2014). The Forest Speaks Back (I). Singapore. -Hieronymus Bosch, (1495-1505). The Garden of Earthly Delights.
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[1.1.3] OPPOSITE Becoming - Nomad. Colonising the interstitial spaces.
[1.1.4] Becoming Queer. Articulating exteriority and the abject.
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Marc, (2017), “The very gay
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[1.1.5] Kit of parts assembly manual for deployment of temporary dwelling units onto infrastructure. [1.1.6] CENTER Integration of structure and M&E services hosting dwelling units. [1.1.7] OPPOSITE Sectional perspective A-A depicting the becoming of “jungle�. [1.1.8] OVERLEAF Structural system and construction manual for infrastructure. 20
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[1.3.1]OPPOSITE ABOVE Ground Level [1.3.2]OPPOSITE CENTER Pedestrian level, 3m above ground [1.3.3]OPPOSITE BELOW Pedestrian highway level, 6m above ground 36
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Movie Still. Terry Gilliam, Arnon Milchan, Tom Stoppard,Charles McKeown, Brazil.
POWER AND SYMBOLS
當中心 [ PAWN CENTRE ] BY YEE ZHI YUAN JASPER
The future is bleak. Postulating the impending economy where cost of living sky rockets, millennials are drowning in debt and agony. No longer can the working class afford Big Ticket goods or luxuries of their own. This calls for a new system of goods sharing. 當中心 embodies the act of pawning highstake goods for cash while creating a high-end retail experience for another. This co-sharing of goods within 當中心 creates a new and promising shared economy. Preceding from 德成按, a age-old pawn in Macao, the towering concrete vault that protects its treasures from intruders and thieves is a reflection of Foucault’s Society of Discipline in which its spaces are closed. Yet this ability of architecture is expressed by Deleuze in a vastly different form within the new Society of Control. Open architectural spaces are adopted to instill control not by using physical walls but by the omnipresent gaze of the public eye. The peer surveillance exercised by the patrons within the vaults of 當中心 allows the goods to be defended and secured in the most public of spaces, enabling the exchange of material goods to take place within this new form of marketplace.
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THE SANCTION BY GEOFFREY NEO JIE HAO
The Sanction: Seeking Consent Through Discipline... Seeing the bureaucracy in the state of Singapore as being contradictory to their own statements of democracy and regime, the proposed design aims to capture a morr truthful representation of a government building (Ministry of Manpower Service Centre). Humanistic architectural features that signify openness, hospitality and freedom common to many statuary buildings in Singapore are rejected while making the act of subjection a spectacle. The Sanction seeks to awaken the false conciousness of hopeful migrant workers who percieve Singapore as a wonderful place or even signal a bleak Singapore future that has been consistently subjected to a mirage of false impressions to justify the mildly oppressive nature of the state. Through acts of dehumanisation, the chaotic that births forth from rituals of subjection, layered programmatic layouts of varying porosities and manipulation of the dense existing masterplan girder structure system, the project represents cynicism towards the architecture of government buildings that the state endorses.
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[2.1.1] Criticism of the Bureaucracy and Programmatic Layout [2.1.2] BELOW Design Strategies [2.1.3] OPPOSITE ABOVE 1F Plan [2.1.4] OPPOSITE BELOW 2F Plan
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[2.1.5] Exploded axonometry with programmatic layers. [2.1.6] OPPOSITE ABOVE 3F Plan [2.1.7] OPPOSITE BELOW 4F Plan
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[2.2.1] OPPOSITE Let the multitude reign in! [2.2.2] ABOVE South-east elevation [2.2.3] BELOW Plans Top to Bottom: -Foyer lvl 3. 59m -Foyer lvl 2. 41m -Foyer lvl 1. 17m -Girder Mezzanine lvl. 13m -Girder lvl 1. 9m Power and Symbols
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[2.2.4] ABOVE LEFT Spaces of Retail [2.2.5] ABOVE RIGHT Spaces of Pawning [2.2.6] BELOW LEFT Vault and Retail Corridor detail [2.2.7] BELOW TOP-RIGHT Modular Concrete Superstructure detail [2.2.8] BELOW BOTTOMRIGHT Various Typical Floor Details
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BIOPOLITICS AND CULTURAL ARTEFACTS
PHALANX BY TAN WEI CHIANG, DELWIN
In today’s modern day society, there is a common belief that we are producing different and unique individuals, but digging deeper and understanding the capitalist society through the lens of famous artist Andy Warhol and philosopher Louis Althusser, the project embodies and serves to affirm that as a society we are indeed evolving the masses to rather become more and more similar.
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As the fashion industry is one that provides for the masses, the project’s program is a generic flagship store. The showroom is designed with the concept of reproducing sameness for the mass market. The phalanx of mannequins is designed to create an experience that epitomizes Louis Althusser’s ideology of reproduction.
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The project is envisioned to be a youth center which provides space for parkour training, cosplay activities and craft market. These activities were selected as potential programs for the young and creative population of Singapore to use and colononize the double-layered girder structure of one of the building block in the previously proposed Jurong East masterplan. The proposed design consists of two main elements, both of which are constructed primarily of scaffolding lattice structure as a contrast to the existing permanent and rigid girder truss. The first element is a series of ‘hive units’ which are essentially parasitic structure that are built attached to the existing columns of the girder space. These hive units houses the craft studio, cosplay shop, changing room and are connected into a network by circulation paths that follow the diagonal truss of the girder. The second element is a series of climbing tower that are spread along the middle atrium space of the building block. These vertical elements extend from the ground level and infiltrate through the double girder layers, giving space for the parkour practitioners to conduct their physical training. On certain occassion, the towers can be opened up at the top to form a larger and more interconnected space above the girder, allowing events such as cosplay or comic convention to take place.
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OASIS 20X20 BY STEPHAN SHEN YIZHE
My projects focus on the 20m wide space between office blocks, I intend to design a lush garden atrium that allow the public and office workers to be able to experience wining and dining in the nature. Tapping onto the three existing cores between the office towers, the girdle structure is raised from the existing structural system below and the garden is designed around the organizational principle of the girdle 20mx20m grid. A mixture of hawker centers, food kiosks, restaurants are injected throughout the garden at various levels. They occupy the two sides of the girdle structure so that there will be a 6m gap in the middle for light to penetrate the garden, this gap also allows the users to look down at the gardens above and below them. Sitting areas are distributed around the structure to support the food kiosks; users buy their food from the various kiosks and can travel to any dining areas in the garden. The intention is to offer almost a treehouse dining experience where users are surrounded by greeneries and be able to enjoy a meal in the comfort of nature. The garden also connects the four office blocks and this allows many opportunities for the office users to enter the garden during work to take a short break. At the center of the garden, there will be an open bar. The bar has four modules spiraling around a central core and they all slots into the nine 6x6m spaces within the 20x20m girdle. Each module contains an open bar and performance stage one level one, a karaoke room on level two and a games room leading to a small green space on level three. These four modules are distributed evenly around the middle core in a stepped fashion so that every level of the garden is able to access the different functions on the same floor. Lastly, the entire garden is naturally ventilated. Automatic sliding glass panels are used on the roof to guard against wet weathers, and they slides fully open during dry weathers to allow maximum light penetration into the garden.
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PHALANX BY TAN WEI CHIANG, DELWIN
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[3.1.1] TOP-LEFT Frosted glass
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[3.2.1] OPPOSITE Plans top to bottom: -Ground Level Floor Plan -First Girder Floor Plan (+9m) -Second Girder Floor Plan (+13m) -Above Girder Floor Plan (+17m) 86
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[3.2.3] OPPOSITE Insertion of Climbing Tower and Insertion of Hive Units [3.2.4] OPPOSITE BELOW Existing Site Condition [3.2.5] Insertion of Circulation Path and Insertion of Vertical Cores [3.2.6] BELOW Opening of Climbing Tower
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[3.2.7] ABOVE Climbing tower structure [3.2.8] BOTTOM-LEFT Closed Condition [3.2.9] BOTTOM-RIGHT Open Condition
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[3.2.14] ABOVE Above girdir level perspective [3.2.15] Girdir interior perspective
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[3.3.3] ABOVE Game Room [3.3.4] CENTER Open Bar [3.3.5] BELOW Garden Walkway 98
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HYPERCONTEXT AND THE BANAL
RECONNECTING WITH JURONG EAST - INN BY CHIN YI HUI CLARABELLE
This project focuses on creating a place of rest and stay, An inn nestled within the old blocks in Jurong east. This is to have a place to rest, stay and to connect with the commons in the midst of hustle and bustle of life in the future CBD. ALso, in light of the high speed railway stationed at Jurong East, there is a projection of a great influx of both local and foreign working crowd and tourist.Hence, offering an alternative short haul and cheaper point of stay. such as for an hour during lunch break etc. The theme of this project looks towards integrating and reconnecting with the old Jurong East while moving forward in the immediate future CBD. With the movement of neo-capitalism moving into the heartlands of Jurong east, we discovered that there will be a disconnection between the old and the new with the CBD present. Hence, we believe, the essence of the “older part� of Jurong east can be embraced while moving forward in the near future. This essence can be seen through the humble activities and the commons. Hence, we are projecting to reconnect with the commons and programs at the heartlands with the new CBD present. This project is focused towards remaining unaffected zone by the new CBD initative. My project, takes place within the heartlands of Jurong east; Nestled within blocks 131, 135 and the multi-storey Carpark. Through the site study, we noticed several activities that brings out the very essence of the older section of jurong east. We see tuition centres, small private businesses (mama shop), kopitiam and the usual people who frequent this area, such as the old uncles enjoying their coffee break, beer ladies(during night time), residents, foreign workers, students, visitors and during lunch hour working crowd.The kopitiam, in particular, is observed as a particular place of interest due to the celebration of different groups of people gathering within its space.
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RECONNECTING TO JURONG EAST ELIZABETH HO XIN YING
With the movement of Neo-capitalism moving into the heartlands of Jurong East, one postulates the disconnection between the old and the new. The idea of a neighbourhood will be redefined. With the intention to move forward while still retaining the essence of the heartlands, this project aims to create a platform to connect and integrate the residents of Jurong East and the work force of the Jurong East Central Business District through recreational spaces. Futsal : Indoor cage soccer. The presence of such sporting facilities will open up more opportunities for a more sporting and wellness lifestyle for both residents and office workers. Such activities are inserted into the daily lives of the people in hopes to blur the boundaries between both parties.
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[4.1.1] LEFT TO 10000mm 13000mm 17000mm
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The girder integrate through this block at the fourth storey of the old building, which is 9m from ground and immediately connects to the hawker space. The outer peripheral will contain spaces for hawker stores, eating spaces are provided and spilled into the central courtyard. 112
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Moreover, wit the Kopitiam being observed as a place where the commons gathered and the essence of the heartlands was greatly experienced, which is present at his area. So this hawker space is a continuation of the kopitiam program from this area. the idea focuses on bringing in the the program of
a kopitiam into this urban space through a series of steps and ramps that can bring people/commons up to this continuation of hawker space. The program above will be providing to the rest and stay within the heartlands of Jurong East. This project install
sleeping capsules like those of capsule hotels present at Tokyo for short stays. The outer peripheral of the plan, caters to the functional programs such as the sleeping capsules and washrooms. To facilitate interaction between visitors and visual interactions, Inner Studio Bobby Wong
peripheral of the plan functions as a communication zone where visitors can interact and have opportunities to interact which looks into the central courtyard, facilitating visual interactions into the space. Public staircase wil be present along this zone, bringing
the people down to experience the essence of Jurong East. Elevator will be present to only function for the hotel, to bring the visitors up. From bottom to upper levels, there will be an increase in concentration of the sleeping capsules fascinating a more intimate spaces
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[4.1.5] OPPOSITE Perspective view of Rest & Stay and Hawker space. [4.1.6] ABOVE Section B-B [4.1.7] Sleeping Capsule Hypercontext and The Banal
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AY16/17 AR4102 DESIGN 08 | MOBILITY + URBANISM DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL OF DESIGN AND ENVIRONMENT