M AR CH I & II SEMESTER I DESIGN STUDIO LEADERS

NEW TRANSFORMATION POSSIBILITIES

Tutor: Teh Joo Heng

Interestingly, much of natural resources and human efforts are used to create our built environment. Indiscriminate demolition and rebuilding should be reexamined. Our built environment should be viewed as a resource, to be valued and treasured.

Rethinking our built environment as resource will provide a significant insight to address the sustainability issues we are now facing. The studio would like to investigate how the existing built environment in the city, consisting of building, road, public infra-structure, urban spaces can be transformed, re-structured, re-program to invent new strategies to ensure long term resilience and sustainability.

The studio hopes to speculate what the BRAS BASAH BUGIS AREA will be like when this transformation takes full effect.

TROPICAL PUBLIC HOUSING: BUILT FORM, SPACE, DECARBONISATION

Tutor: Yuan Chao

80% of Singapore‘s resident population live in flats built by Housing Development Board (HDB). Meanwhile, Singapore aims to achieve net-zero carbon emission by 2050. Public housing planning and design undoubtedly play an important role on decarbonisation, and it is still challenging to architects to balance the increasing demand on housing and potential environmental impact. This design studio tries to tackle this important mass housing design issue and engages students to explore ways to conduct climate-responsive design to provide public housing that are more climate sustainable and resilient. The studio emphasises the systematic environmental strategies for decarbonisation at different design stages. The knowledge delivered in this studio allows students not only to deepen the understanding on urban microclimate, but also to practice the corresponding design strategies and skills.