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Last Resort Vertical Prison October 2019- February 2020 , Studio SA 4 Tutor : Jasmine Tan
Travels in Parallel Reality is a journey that aims to explore a place and discover the ‘psychogeography’ of the area. In this journey, we will learn to become an ‘investigator of the ordinary’ and to see ‘our surroundings as a living being that could be observed’ . This adventure attempts to super impose two seemingly unrelated realities together , to discplace you from your current environment. By shifting your point of view into the foreign in order to see the familiarity of the everyday and our own environment / culture with a fresh eye.
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Walkthrough Video
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3 SITE TIMELINE And this case I investigated the history of a particular site that serves as different purposes , based on differ ent time / era and generation Based on the needs and changes in the society . And in this case , during the 1800- 1950’s Saint john Island used to be a fishing village for the orang lauts And when the British came during the 1950’s to 1965’s they transformed Saint john to a quarantine place in fact the largest in Station in the British empire . Because of diseases people coming down to Singapore must stay a while before coming to the mainland And recently , it is a serves as a resort . And if you look into history , what you would hear that Sir Sandford raffles was anchored off St. John island And the that is the first encounter sir raffles encountered with the locals
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CONCEPT The concept of the prison the water / sea being the in visible barrier for the prisoners . And having school like system whereby it functions like a faculty like of setting . In which programmes such as fishing , baking , sewing and carpentry in instilled based on the present routine of modern day prisons in the world . The concept include moduarity in construction , Based from a 20 ft container it then get modified into the standards typical prison cell for a single person . As the limitedness of space in prison architecture , is usually the main reason of why most / many inmates resort to corruption , fights , bullying and violance Hence , in last resort vertical prison , this project totally redefine it all
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Programme So how the pri-son architecture works is that, let’s after prisoner is being sentenced to let’s say a 8 year jail term . Or tentatively if one can raise 2000 fishes, 2000 breads, 2000 clothes and 2000 furniture one can be free without charges I believe this evolution of prison system will better equip prisoners with basic skills that allows them to work and be accepted in the society whereby along the way life skill set, good values of being a good citizen would be thought in the process in each faculty. And the idea of collaboration , teamwork and learning from one another plays and integral and important process of the overall experience of this last resort vertical pri-son .
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