YEAR 2 LEVEL 4 COMPILATION OF SAMPLES
2018/2019 B.A. (ARCH) 2
CLIMATE ENVIRONMENT ENVELOPE
IMAGE CREDIT: NIGEL CHEW
Studio Leader: Lilian Chee Studio Associate Leader:Professor, Deputy Head (Academic), PhD (Bartlett, UCL), MSc (Arch
LEVEL 4: Environment, Climate, Envelope Can anyone imagine a study that would treat the ozone hole as simultaneously naturalized, sociologized and deconstructed?
be interpreted, developed and designed in the same vein, seeing these as nested and relational categories rather than separate or hierarchical ones. Examining
- Bruno Latour, ‘We Have Never Been Modern’, 1993.
coastline, and threading between the geographies of land, archipelago, estuarine and sea, the architectural
Writing about agency, (in)action and the environmental crisis in Down to Earth (2018) and Facing Gaia (2017), the philosopher Bruno Latour argues that ecological movements need to rethink their intrinsic relationship to politics and culture in order to occupy the earth differently. Latour sees the normalized divisions that position science/climate/nature against politics/territory/culture to be the stumbling block for proactive agency and revolution. Instead, he conceptualizes the nature/culture hybrid, proposing that this hybrid is where and how we can deal with the insurmountable issue of climate change.
2018/2019 B.A.(ARCH) 2
History) with Distinction (Bartlett, UCL), B.Arch (Hons) (NUS), BA.Arch Studies (NUS)
Lilian Chee
Faculty:
Associate Professor, Deputy Head (Academic), PhD (Bartlett, UCL), MSc (Arch History) with Distinction (Bartlett, UCL), B.Arch (Hons) (NUS), BA.Arch Studies Semester 2 (NUS)
Sonja Berthold Dip.Semester Arch ETH, MArch Faculty: 2 AA, PhD (NUS) /SIA (Swiss Engineers & Architects) Chum Jia Xin Sonja Berthold
B.Arch (University of Hong M.Arch (Princeton University), Reg Arch Dip. Arch ETH, MArch AA,Kong), PhD (NUS) /SIA (Swiss Engineers & Architects) Singapore
Chum Jia Xin (University of Hong Kong), M.Arch (Princeton University), Reg Arch HoB.Arch See Jia
climate and envelope, as these spatiotemporal
M.Arch (Harvard GSD), BA.Arch (NUS), Reg Arch New York State Singapore
technology and culture.
Adrian LaiJia Ho See
BA.Arch AA Dip (UK), Reg Arch Singapore & UK M.Arch(NUS), (Harvard GSD), BA.Arch (NUS), Reg Arch New York State
Lilian Chee Level 4 Studio Leader
Roy PangLai Adrian
B.Arch (Hons) (RMIT), MSIA, Reg Arch Singapore, GMM, BA.Arch (NUS), AA Dip (UK), Reg Arch Singapore & UKUDA, DfSP
Peter Roy Sim Pang
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Studies (NUS),GMM, B.Arch (Hons) B.Arch (Hons) (RMIT), MSIA,BA.Arch Reg Arch Singapore, UDA, DfSP(NUS), ARB (UK), Reg Arch UK
Through the nature/culture hybrid we can engage climate issues at various scales from the individual to the global, and at various capacities from the human to the non-human (including plants, animals, and nonliving agents like water, air, land, architecture). Latour
Peter Sim Swinal Samat Adjunct Assistant Professor, BA.Arch Studies (NUS), B.Arch (Hons) (NUS), Senior ARBLecturer, (UK), Reg PhD Archand UK PGCHE (The University of Nottingham, UK), M. Environmental Design, India)
Swinal Samat
Senior Lecturer, PhD and PGCHE (The University of Nottingham, UK), M.
overlaps in order to defy the modern conception that our world is essentially broken into two irreconcilable parts: ‘…a world in which the representation of things through the intermediary of the laboratory is forever dissociated from the representation of citizens through the intermediary of the social contract’.1
Sy Lyng
This semester, through the lenses of ‘Environment, Climate, Envelope’, we will test Latour’s ideas of hybridity, cross-pollination and the interweaving of relations by situating ‘architecture’ at the very intersections of science and politics; climate and territory; nature and culture. The devices of ‘environment’, ‘climate’ and ‘envelope’ are thus, to
Abel Tablada Tham Hon PhD Eng., Msc Arch (KU Leuven), MSCs Cons, M Arch SeniorWai Lecturer,
BArch Cooper Union, BA.Arch (NUS), Reg Arch Singapore Environmental Design, India)
Abel Tablada Sy Lyng
Senior Lecturer, Eng., Msc Arch (KUReg Leuven), MSCs Cons, M Arch BArch Cooper PhD Union, BA.Arch (NUS), Arch Singapore ISPJAE, Reg Arch Cuba
ISPJAE, Reg(NUS), Arch Cuba BA.Arch (Hons) M.Arch (NUS)
Paul YeoWai Hon Tham
BA.Arch (Hons) (NUS), M.Arch (NUS), Reg Arch Singapore BA.Arch (Hons) (NUS), M.Arch (NUS)
1 Latour, 27.
DrPaul YuanYeo Chao
Assistant PhDM.Arch (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), MPhil (Bei BA.ArchProfessor, (Hons) (NUS), (NUS), Reg Arch Singapore jing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture), B.E. ( hejiang Univer sityDr of Yuan Technology) Chao 26
Assistant Professor, PhD (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), MPhil (Bei jing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture), B.E. ( hejiang Univer sity of Technology)
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Studio Leader: Lilian Chee Studio Associate Leader:Professor, Deputy Head (Academic), PhD (Bartlett, UCL), MSc (Arch
LEVEL 4: Environment, Climate, Envelope Can anyone imagine a study that would treat the ozone hole as simultaneously naturalized, sociologized and deconstructed?
be interpreted, developed and designed in the same vein, seeing these as nested and relational categories rather than separate or hierarchical ones. Examining
- Bruno Latour, ‘We Have Never Been Modern’, 1993.
coastline, and threading between the geographies of land, archipelago, estuarine and sea, the architectural
Writing about agency, (in)action and the environmental crisis in Down to Earth (2018) and Facing Gaia (2017), the philosopher Bruno Latour argues that ecological movements need to rethink their intrinsic relationship to politics and culture in order to occupy the earth differently. Latour sees the normalized divisions that position science/climate/nature against politics/territory/culture to be the stumbling block for proactive agency and revolution. Instead, he conceptualizes the nature/culture hybrid, proposing that this hybrid is where and how we can deal with the insurmountable issue of climate change.
2018/2019 B.A.(ARCH) 2
History) with Distinction (Bartlett, UCL), B.Arch (Hons) (NUS), BA.Arch Studies (NUS)
Lilian Chee
Faculty:
Associate Professor, Deputy Head (Academic), PhD (Bartlett, UCL), MSc (Arch History) with Distinction (Bartlett, UCL), B.Arch (Hons) (NUS), BA.Arch Studies Semester 2 (NUS)
Sonja Berthold Dip.Semester Arch ETH, MArch Faculty: 2 AA, PhD (NUS) /SIA (Swiss Engineers & Architects) Chum Jia Xin Sonja Berthold
B.Arch (University of Hong M.Arch (Princeton University), Reg Arch Dip. Arch ETH, MArch AA,Kong), PhD (NUS) /SIA (Swiss Engineers & Architects) Singapore
Chum Jia Xin (University of Hong Kong), M.Arch (Princeton University), Reg Arch HoB.Arch See Jia
climate and envelope, as these spatiotemporal
M.Arch (Harvard GSD), BA.Arch (NUS), Reg Arch New York State Singapore
technology and culture.
Adrian LaiJia Ho See
BA.Arch AA Dip (UK), Reg Arch Singapore & UK M.Arch(NUS), (Harvard GSD), BA.Arch (NUS), Reg Arch New York State
Lilian Chee Level 4 Studio Leader
Roy PangLai Adrian
B.Arch (Hons) (RMIT), MSIA, Reg Arch Singapore, GMM, BA.Arch (NUS), AA Dip (UK), Reg Arch Singapore & UKUDA, DfSP
Peter Roy Sim Pang
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Studies (NUS),GMM, B.Arch (Hons) B.Arch (Hons) (RMIT), MSIA,BA.Arch Reg Arch Singapore, UDA, DfSP(NUS), ARB (UK), Reg Arch UK
Through the nature/culture hybrid we can engage climate issues at various scales from the individual to the global, and at various capacities from the human to the non-human (including plants, animals, and nonliving agents like water, air, land, architecture). Latour
Peter Sim Swinal Samat Adjunct Assistant Professor, BA.Arch Studies (NUS), B.Arch (Hons) (NUS), Senior ARBLecturer, (UK), Reg PhD Archand UK PGCHE (The University of Nottingham, UK), M. Environmental Design, India)
Swinal Samat
Senior Lecturer, PhD and PGCHE (The University of Nottingham, UK), M.
overlaps in order to defy the modern conception that our world is essentially broken into two irreconcilable parts: ‘…a world in which the representation of things through the intermediary of the laboratory is forever dissociated from the representation of citizens through the intermediary of the social contract’.1
Sy Lyng
This semester, through the lenses of ‘Environment, Climate, Envelope’, we will test Latour’s ideas of hybridity, cross-pollination and the interweaving of relations by situating ‘architecture’ at the very intersections of science and politics; climate and territory; nature and culture. The devices of ‘environment’, ‘climate’ and ‘envelope’ are thus, to
Abel Tablada Tham Hon PhD Eng., Msc Arch (KU Leuven), MSCs Cons, M Arch SeniorWai Lecturer,
BArch Cooper Union, BA.Arch (NUS), Reg Arch Singapore Environmental Design, India)
Abel Tablada Sy Lyng
Senior Lecturer, Eng., Msc Arch (KUReg Leuven), MSCs Cons, M Arch BArch Cooper PhD Union, BA.Arch (NUS), Arch Singapore ISPJAE, Reg Arch Cuba
ISPJAE, Reg(NUS), Arch Cuba BA.Arch (Hons) M.Arch (NUS)
Paul YeoWai Hon Tham
BA.Arch (Hons) (NUS), M.Arch (NUS), Reg Arch Singapore BA.Arch (Hons) (NUS), M.Arch (NUS)
1 Latour, 27.
DrPaul YuanYeo Chao
Assistant PhDM.Arch (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), MPhil (Bei BA.ArchProfessor, (Hons) (NUS), (NUS), Reg Arch Singapore jing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture), B.E. ( hejiang Univer sityDr of Yuan Technology) Chao 26
Assistant Professor, PhD (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), MPhil (Bei jing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture), B.E. ( hejiang Univer sity of Technology)
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EBBS AND FLOWS 1. INTRODUCTION
2. ENVIRONMENT AND ENVELOPE
Can anyone imagine a study that would treat the ozone hole as simultaneously naturalIzed, sociologized and deconstructed?[1] Writing about agency, (in)action and the environmental crisis in Down to Earth (2018) and Facing Gaia (2017), the philosopher Bruno Latour argues that ecological movements need to rethink their intrinsic relationship to politics and culture in order to occupy Earth differently. Latour sees the normalized divisions that position science/climate/nature against politics/territory/ culture to be the stumbling block for proactive agency and revolution. Instead, he conceptualizes the nature/culture hybrid, proposing that this hybrid is where and how we can deal with the insurmountable issue of climate change. Through the nature/culture hybrid we can engage climate issues at various scales from the individual to the global, and at various capacities from the human to the non-human (including plants, animals, and non-living agents like water, air, land, architecture). Latour is challenging us to find coincidences, affiliations, and overlaps to defy the modern conception that our world is essentially broken into two irreconcilable parts: ‘…a world in which the representation of things through the intermediary of the laboratory is forever dissociated from the representation of citizens through the intermediary of the social contract’. [2] This semester, through the lenses of ‘Environment, Climate, Envelope’, we will test Latour’s ideas of hybridity, cross-pollination and the interweaving of relations by situating ‘architecture’ at the very intersections of science and politics; climate and territory; nature and culture. The devices of ‘environment’, ‘climate’ and ‘envelope’ are thus, to be interpreted, developed and designed in the same vein, seeing these as nested and relational categories rather than separate or hierarchical ones. Examining a specific area of Singapore’s elusive and constructed coastline, and threading between the geographies of land, archipelago, estuarine and sea, the architectural programme demands a definition of environment, climate and envelope, as these spatiotemporal categories ebb and flow with history, society, technology and culture. _______________________________________________________________________________________
[1] Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern (Harvard University Press, 1993), 6. [2] Ibid., 27.
The idea of environment reaches beyond climate and nature. The environment is a dynamic system of natural, cultural, political and historic forces which continually impact upon and define space, place and architecture. Environment is the intersection of ebbs and flows – the local and the global; the present and the future; the sites of new ecosystems and the residues of capitalist wastelands. This semester, the project will focus on engaging the multifarious environments around the Labrador Park Nature Reserve – a coastal park, a mangrove swamp, Singapore’s only publicly accessible rocky sea-cliff, a fishing spot under threat from coastal erosion, a tropical jungle, a historical site with a British fort, a place of industry with a defunct oil refinery, a home to corals, and a seafront promenade. It is a historical repository of relics, a bird watchers’ hotspot, an overgrown tropical wetland and jungle with rich biodiversity, a place for lovers and somewhere to watch the sun rise and set. It is idyllic but also at risk. It needs to be occupied strategically and responsibly. How can architecture react to such a situation? Can architecture cultivate nature such that it grows with time, use and engagement? Is intervention possible without the compromise of loss? Here, we test Latour’s ideas of hybridity, cross-pollination and the interweaving of relations. Labrador Park with its multiple environments and climatic specificities (temperature, moisture, rainfall, heat, humidity, dampness, wind, sun, breezes, sunrise and sunset, light) will generate the primary architectural focus of this project – the architectural envelope – manifested and developed through the programmatic vehicle of a nature-culture related facility for tropical habitat research and field work studies. Projects are expected to address the architectural complexities of the envelope as it/these react(s) to Labrador Park’s multivalent environments – physical, climatic, ecological, cultural, historical, political, economical – and informs performatively and qualitatively through the vehicle of the tropical habitat research/fieldwork facility. The architectural envelope is skin and structure; membrane and support; surface and depth; inside and outside. Building envelopes may be performative or qualitative in character. Envelopes may function to resist, transfer and carry loads; control flows of energy and matter (water, air, sound, light, heat); define identity/atmosphere/experience/mood through aesthetics and performance; serve as impermeable barriers or porous boundaries. The architectural envelope’s physical manifestations as wall, roof, opening are simultaneously perfunctory and indispensable in the making of architecture. In the most memorable of architectures, the envelope is integral with architecture, or more accurately, the envelope becomes the architecture. Projects must define, design, develop and materialize an architecture where its envelope is of primary focus. How thick or thin is this envelope? What is it made of? How and where does it vary in form and structure, and why does it vary? Where does it grow? Why does it deflate? In what ways, where and when does it make space, but also appear/perform as skin, structure, surface, and depth? Why does this envelope matter for your architectural intervention at Labrador Park?
EBBS AND FLOWS 1. INTRODUCTION
2. ENVIRONMENT AND ENVELOPE
Can anyone imagine a study that would treat the ozone hole as simultaneously naturalIzed, sociologized and deconstructed?[1] Writing about agency, (in)action and the environmental crisis in Down to Earth (2018) and Facing Gaia (2017), the philosopher Bruno Latour argues that ecological movements need to rethink their intrinsic relationship to politics and culture in order to occupy Earth differently. Latour sees the normalized divisions that position science/climate/nature against politics/territory/ culture to be the stumbling block for proactive agency and revolution. Instead, he conceptualizes the nature/culture hybrid, proposing that this hybrid is where and how we can deal with the insurmountable issue of climate change. Through the nature/culture hybrid we can engage climate issues at various scales from the individual to the global, and at various capacities from the human to the non-human (including plants, animals, and non-living agents like water, air, land, architecture). Latour is challenging us to find coincidences, affiliations, and overlaps to defy the modern conception that our world is essentially broken into two irreconcilable parts: ‘…a world in which the representation of things through the intermediary of the laboratory is forever dissociated from the representation of citizens through the intermediary of the social contract’. [2] This semester, through the lenses of ‘Environment, Climate, Envelope’, we will test Latour’s ideas of hybridity, cross-pollination and the interweaving of relations by situating ‘architecture’ at the very intersections of science and politics; climate and territory; nature and culture. The devices of ‘environment’, ‘climate’ and ‘envelope’ are thus, to be interpreted, developed and designed in the same vein, seeing these as nested and relational categories rather than separate or hierarchical ones. Examining a specific area of Singapore’s elusive and constructed coastline, and threading between the geographies of land, archipelago, estuarine and sea, the architectural programme demands a definition of environment, climate and envelope, as these spatiotemporal categories ebb and flow with history, society, technology and culture. _______________________________________________________________________________________
[1] Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern (Harvard University Press, 1993), 6. [2] Ibid., 27.
The idea of environment reaches beyond climate and nature. The environment is a dynamic system of natural, cultural, political and historic forces which continually impact upon and define space, place and architecture. Environment is the intersection of ebbs and flows – the local and the global; the present and the future; the sites of new ecosystems and the residues of capitalist wastelands. This semester, the project will focus on engaging the multifarious environments around the Labrador Park Nature Reserve – a coastal park, a mangrove swamp, Singapore’s only publicly accessible rocky sea-cliff, a fishing spot under threat from coastal erosion, a tropical jungle, a historical site with a British fort, a place of industry with a defunct oil refinery, a home to corals, and a seafront promenade. It is a historical repository of relics, a bird watchers’ hotspot, an overgrown tropical wetland and jungle with rich biodiversity, a place for lovers and somewhere to watch the sun rise and set. It is idyllic but also at risk. It needs to be occupied strategically and responsibly. How can architecture react to such a situation? Can architecture cultivate nature such that it grows with time, use and engagement? Is intervention possible without the compromise of loss? Here, we test Latour’s ideas of hybridity, cross-pollination and the interweaving of relations. Labrador Park with its multiple environments and climatic specificities (temperature, moisture, rainfall, heat, humidity, dampness, wind, sun, breezes, sunrise and sunset, light) will generate the primary architectural focus of this project – the architectural envelope – manifested and developed through the programmatic vehicle of a nature-culture related facility for tropical habitat research and field work studies. Projects are expected to address the architectural complexities of the envelope as it/these react(s) to Labrador Park’s multivalent environments – physical, climatic, ecological, cultural, historical, political, economical – and informs performatively and qualitatively through the vehicle of the tropical habitat research/fieldwork facility. The architectural envelope is skin and structure; membrane and support; surface and depth; inside and outside. Building envelopes may be performative or qualitative in character. Envelopes may function to resist, transfer and carry loads; control flows of energy and matter (water, air, sound, light, heat); define identity/atmosphere/experience/mood through aesthetics and performance; serve as impermeable barriers or porous boundaries. The architectural envelope’s physical manifestations as wall, roof, opening are simultaneously perfunctory and indispensable in the making of architecture. In the most memorable of architectures, the envelope is integral with architecture, or more accurately, the envelope becomes the architecture. Projects must define, design, develop and materialize an architecture where its envelope is of primary focus. How thick or thin is this envelope? What is it made of? How and where does it vary in form and structure, and why does it vary? Where does it grow? Why does it deflate? In what ways, where and when does it make space, but also appear/perform as skin, structure, surface, and depth? Why does this envelope matter for your architectural intervention at Labrador Park?
3. STUDIES
All studios are at liberty to define their own vehicles, suited to the studio’s individual methods and interpretation of this common Level 4 brief. Several parameters are listed below as a guide to generate/develop the brief and projects. These broad parameters may be interpreted and revised as suited to the outcomes and ambitions of individual projects, in consultation with the Studio Masters. All projects must, however, observe the following criteria: a. each project must be multi-storey/ multi-level b. each proposal must address the envelope in the vertical as well as its interface/ transition to the horizontal c. each proposal must create an environment that has at least 3 gradations or types of qualitative spatial effects so that a hierarchy of effects on spaces may be attributed to the design of the envelope d. overall built-up size within reasonable limits of 1500m2 _______________________________________________________________________________________
A. SITE Strategic site studies will be conducted for the whole site. You will be required to make site visits, trawl through archival materials and conduct investigations on the web. In this project, you must endeavor to read the site through the lenses of ‘environment’. Each student should investigate an individual subject/area apart from participating in groupwork, if the latter is mandated by the studio concerned. Findings will be shared during studio with short presentations and discussed in-class. The process of ‘discovering’ and making sense of one’s discovery the site is a fundamental step towards the design process. Specific content and methods of site analysis will be determined in consultation with individual studio requirements.
B. PRIMER This can be a study of relevant architectural precedents, natural processes, environmental and sustainable design strategies, or any other subject deemed potentially significant to the project. Specific content and methods to be determined by individual studios. Studies are process-based documents and must reflect overall investigations and trajectory of individual or group processes. Final assessment will take into consideration these documents/models. _______________________________________________________________________________________
4. DESIGN
This project will build upon all previous skills and competencies acquired over the last 3 semesters of your study, adding to these the considerations of environment, climate and envelope design. The nature-culture related public facility should be devised in conjunction with individual studio methods and aims, and observe the year-wide general criteria. Projects will be assessed on the maturity of their programmatic and design development as these engage the complexities of climate and environment. While the focus is on the architectural envelope, an overall consideration of how the architecture of the nature-culture public facility is conceived and developed is key. Its relationship to the site and primer studies should be clarified through the design process.
3. STUDIES
All studios are at liberty to define their own vehicles, suited to the studio’s individual methods and interpretation of this common Level 4 brief. Several parameters are listed below as a guide to generate/develop the brief and projects. These broad parameters may be interpreted and revised as suited to the outcomes and ambitions of individual projects, in consultation with the Studio Masters. All projects must, however, observe the following criteria: a. each project must be multi-storey/ multi-level b. each proposal must address the envelope in the vertical as well as its interface/ transition to the horizontal c. each proposal must create an environment that has at least 3 gradations or types of qualitative spatial effects so that a hierarchy of effects on spaces may be attributed to the design of the envelope d. overall built-up size within reasonable limits of 1500m2 _______________________________________________________________________________________
A. SITE Strategic site studies will be conducted for the whole site. You will be required to make site visits, trawl through archival materials and conduct investigations on the web. In this project, you must endeavor to read the site through the lenses of ‘environment’. Each student should investigate an individual subject/area apart from participating in groupwork, if the latter is mandated by the studio concerned. Findings will be shared during studio with short presentations and discussed in-class. The process of ‘discovering’ and making sense of one’s discovery the site is a fundamental step towards the design process. Specific content and methods of site analysis will be determined in consultation with individual studio requirements.
B. PRIMER This can be a study of relevant architectural precedents, natural processes, environmental and sustainable design strategies, or any other subject deemed potentially significant to the project. Specific content and methods to be determined by individual studios. Studies are process-based documents and must reflect overall investigations and trajectory of individual or group processes. Final assessment will take into consideration these documents/models. _______________________________________________________________________________________
4. DESIGN
This project will build upon all previous skills and competencies acquired over the last 3 semesters of your study, adding to these the considerations of environment, climate and envelope design. The nature-culture related public facility should be devised in conjunction with individual studio methods and aims, and observe the year-wide general criteria. Projects will be assessed on the maturity of their programmatic and design development as these engage the complexities of climate and environment. While the focus is on the architectural envelope, an overall consideration of how the architecture of the nature-culture public facility is conceived and developed is key. Its relationship to the site and primer studies should be clarified through the design process.
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LABRADOR PARK: DEMISE TO INCIPERE CHIN WEN XUAN STUDIO SWINAL SAMANT
LABRADOR PARK: DEMISE TO INCIPERE CHIN WEN XUAN STUDIO SWINAL SAMANT
A LITTLE WAVE ONCE TOLD ME JEREMY SEAH STUDIO LILIAN CHEE
A LITTLE WAVE ONCE TOLD ME JEREMY SEAH STUDIO LILIAN CHEE
A2101
SCALES OF THE SEA Project Outline
S T U D I O L I L I A N C H E E AY 1 8 / 1 9
The project examines the reactive p property of water and aims to capture and amplify the “rouge waves” caused by passing boats, harnessing it as energy. The architectural envelope deconstructs the wave form, revealing the hidden patterns of the environment. The envi sporadic periods of light that enters the space sequences and frames the stories whispered by the sea.
A LITTLE WAVE ONCE TOLD ME — A PROJECT AT LABRADOR PARK
A LITTLE WAVE ONCE TOLD ME — A PROJECT AT LABRADOR PARK
A2101
SCALES OF THE SEA Project Outline
S T U D I O L I L I A N C H E E AY 1 8 / 1 9
The project examines the reactive p property of water and aims to capture and amplify the “rouge waves” caused by passing boats, harnessing it as energy. The architectural envelope deconstructs the wave form, revealing the hidden patterns of the environment. The envi sporadic periods of light that enters the space sequences and frames the stories whispered by the sea.
A LITTLE WAVE ONCE TOLD ME — A PROJECT AT LABRADOR PARK
A LITTLE WAVE ONCE TOLD ME — A PROJECT AT LABRADOR PARK
A2101 S T U D I O L I L I A N C H E E AY 1 8 / 1 9
A LITTLE WAVE ONCE TOLD ME — A PROJECT AT LABRADOR PARK
A LITTLE WAVE ONCE TOLD ME — A PROJECT AT LABRADOR PARK
A2101 S T U D I O L I L I A N C H E E AY 1 8 / 1 9
A LITTLE WAVE ONCE TOLD ME — A PROJECT AT LABRADOR PARK
A LITTLE WAVE ONCE TOLD ME — A PROJECT AT LABRADOR PARK
A2101 S T U D I O L I L I A N C H E E AY 1 8 / 1 9
A LITTLE WAVE ONCE TOLD ME — A PROJECT AT LABRADOR PARK
A LITTLE WAVE ONCE TOLD ME — A PROJECT AT LABRADOR PARK
A2101 S T U D I O L I L I A N C H E E AY 1 8 / 1 9
A LITTLE WAVE ONCE TOLD ME — A PROJECT AT LABRADOR PARK
A LITTLE WAVE ONCE TOLD ME — A PROJECT AT LABRADOR PARK
A2101 S T U D I O L I L I A N C H E E AY 1 8 / 1 9
A LITTLE WAVE ONCE TOLD ME — A PROJECT AT LABRADOR PARK
A LITTLE WAVE ONCE TOLD ME — A PROJECT AT LABRADOR PARK
A2101 S T U D I O L I L I A N C H E E AY 1 8 / 1 9
A LITTLE WAVE ONCE TOLD ME — A PROJECT AT LABRADOR PARK
A LITTLE WAVE ONCE TOLD ME — A PROJECT AT LABRADOR PARK
PLAY! URBAN PLAYSCAPE FOR OFFICE WORKERS AT BERLAYER CREEK CLARENCE CREDENSA TAN STUDIO THAM WAI HON
PLAY! URBAN PLAYSCAPE FOR OFFICE WORKERS AT BERLAYER CREEK CLARENCE CREDENSA TAN STUDIO THAM WAI HON
P L AY ! B E R L AY E R C R E E K “Can I play with building?” Y2S2 Project “Envelope”
P L AY ! B E R L AY E R C R E E K “Can I play with building?” Y2S2 Project “Envelope”
“C a n I p l a y w i t h b u i l d i n g ?” My initial site analysis led me to take an interest in the tension in relationship between man and nature. There is an invisible layer of separation between and the commercial area along Alexandra Road and Labrador Park which divided man from nature, causing a dense urban fabric which resulted in a congested, overwhelming working experience. This led me to try some initial tests with my personal enclosure and help me alleviate the effects of stress from the working environment. The personal enclosure introduced an interactive programme at the entrance of Berlayer Creek, where office workers could come during breaks to destress and relax.
“CAPSULE” PLAN
The enclosure introduced the element of play as a method of destress while considering passive cooling strategies to the user and surrounding visitors through the act motion of swinging and fanning. Taking inspiration from my personal enclosure, in the next stage of my project, I will take the ideas of the interactive envelope and develop an urban playscape which I have chosen to situate at Berlayer Creek Entrance Plaza as an immediate transition point between the commercial area and Labrador Park. Users will find a space where they are able to find joy and destress through interactive play and rest.
“CAPSULE” SECTION
The interactive envelope reacts in layers to the environment and user interaction within the spaces, embracing users as they seek refuge within the envelope. It is a transitory space for office workers and families, enfolding and welcoming users into the rich, diverse Labrador Park experience.
“CAPSULE” ELEVATION
“C a n I p l a y w i t h b u i l d i n g ?” My initial site analysis led me to take an interest in the tension in relationship between man and nature. There is an invisible layer of separation between and the commercial area along Alexandra Road and Labrador Park which divided man from nature, causing a dense urban fabric which resulted in a congested, overwhelming working experience. This led me to try some initial tests with my personal enclosure and help me alleviate the effects of stress from the working environment. The personal enclosure introduced an interactive programme at the entrance of Berlayer Creek, where office workers could come during breaks to destress and relax.
“CAPSULE” PLAN
The enclosure introduced the element of play as a method of destress while considering passive cooling strategies to the user and surrounding visitors through the act motion of swinging and fanning. Taking inspiration from my personal enclosure, in the next stage of my project, I will take the ideas of the interactive envelope and develop an urban playscape which I have chosen to situate at Berlayer Creek Entrance Plaza as an immediate transition point between the commercial area and Labrador Park. Users will find a space where they are able to find joy and destress through interactive play and rest.
“CAPSULE” SECTION
The interactive envelope reacts in layers to the environment and user interaction within the spaces, embracing users as they seek refuge within the envelope. It is a transitory space for office workers and families, enfolding and welcoming users into the rich, diverse Labrador Park experience.
“CAPSULE” ELEVATION
“CAPSULE” THE PERSONAL ENCLOSURE The enclosure will provide a safe harbour for the working population along Alexandra Road as they transit into Labrador Park. The project aims to create pockets of intimacy at Berlayer Creek Entrance Plaza, easing movement from the office to the park as users get away from their busy lives and address the compelled linear circulation in the area. Alexandra Road faces high density traffic flow, causing congestion as pedestrians are exposed harsh, fast-paced environment and high human contact. The enclosure will create an intimate, tranquil zone where users could reconnect through isolation and recreation. Taking precedent from the harmonious balance of the mangrove ecosystem, the enclosure will cling onto the existing structure of the entrance plaza and alter the dynamics of the area. The skin acts as a screen buffering external contact, maintaining a degree of privacy while encouraging user to play. Users are able hang and swing in the plaza as they proceed to Labrador Park.
ROCESS MODELS
The enclosure relies on user interaction. Through the motion of swinging, wind is generated and cools the user and surrounding visitors. Taking precedents from traditional paper fan and sailboat, the enclosure’s structure stretches out and channels the swinging momentum to generate wind. Wind is drawn in and projected outwards through lightweight polyester fabric that acts as a fan. The enclosure aims to promote recreation and passive cooling strategies into the site and bring joy into the lives of the office workers.
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“CAPSULE” THE PERSONAL ENCLOSURE The enclosure will provide a safe harbour for the working population along Alexandra Road as they transit into Labrador Park. The project aims to create pockets of intimacy at Berlayer Creek Entrance Plaza, easing movement from the office to the park as users get away from their busy lives and address the compelled linear circulation in the area. Alexandra Road faces high density traffic flow, causing congestion as pedestrians are exposed harsh, fast-paced environment and high human contact. The enclosure will create an intimate, tranquil zone where users could reconnect through isolation and recreation. Taking precedent from the harmonious balance of the mangrove ecosystem, the enclosure will cling onto the existing structure of the entrance plaza and alter the dynamics of the area. The skin acts as a screen buffering external contact, maintaining a degree of privacy while encouraging user to play. Users are able hang and swing in the plaza as they proceed to Labrador Park.
ROCESS MODELS
The enclosure relies on user interaction. Through the motion of swinging, wind is generated and cools the user and surrounding visitors. Taking precedents from traditional paper fan and sailboat, the enclosure’s structure stretches out and channels the swinging momentum to generate wind. Wind is drawn in and projected outwards through lightweight polyester fabric that acts as a fan. The enclosure aims to promote recreation and passive cooling strategies into the site and bring joy into the lives of the office workers.
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YEAR 2 LEVEL 4 COMPILATION OF SAMPLES
2018/2019 B.A.(ARCH) 2
IMAGE CREDIT: CHIN WEN XUAN