M ARCH I SEMESTER 1 & 2 FACULTY

INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN FOR EXPERIENCE AND WELL-BEING

Tutor: Thomas Kong

Interior architecture is concerned with the design of habitable spaces from the inside out, where the principles of architectural design, context, structure and enclosure are considered in proximity to materials, objects, human needs and experience. The studio will focus on the conjoined and symbiotic relationship between experience and well-being in the design of interiors, recognising multiple experiential touchpoints across different temporal moments. Students will design interior spaces that that heal, nurture, renew and enrich people in the course of their daily activities based on the following three themes: Design for positive emotions and energy; Design for conviviality and vitality; and Design for diversity and inclusivity.

HOT AIR: THE DRAMATIC ATMOSPHERES OF THE EQUATORIAL CITY

Tutor: Erik G. L’Heureux

The equatorial city’s relationship to climate and atmosphere has become an increasingly complex interface in relation to climate change, population growth, and contamination. Against this background, this studio will research the atmospheric mediums of “hot air” situated in urban Southeast Asia. Three features will guide the work: saturated urbanisms, thick envelopes, and aggregated roofs that modulate and filter the “hot air” of the equatorial city. As the equatorial city evolves from the granular, porous, and informal, to a more formal, conditioned, and hygienic metropolis, it is being transformed with large-scale capital, global aspirations and imported technological systems, often to its longterm environmental detriment. The design research will focus on modes of architectural construction in the region, and the tension between these and the precedent of mid-20th century tropical modernism of the 1930s to the 1980s. The dramatics of heated air, aggregation, scale, vegetation, humidity, heat, rain, and hygiene, and the numerous contagions that compound an atmosphere of “hot air”, will drive the studio’s design and representational research efforts for the semester.

ARCHITECTURE: ACTS OF KINDNESS

Tutor: CJ Lim

This studio advocates the symbiosis of critical thinking and speculative narratives, with drawings (sometimes two-and-a-half dimensions) as the main creative medium. The discourse, at city and building scales, starts from a chosen work of art or literature. Each student will posit a divergent status quo to establish an intellectual position: researching, translating and synthesising key design decisions to address a world in crisis, resulting in the evolution of resilient architecture and urbanism tailored to the determining factors of climate, nature, resources and the idiosyncrasies of humanity. The heart of this semester’s architecture narratives will be the discovery of the true potential of our human condition.

TISSAGE CELLULAIRE

Tutor: Joseph Lim

Designers do not start with preconceptions, code compliance or technological limitations. Instead, the ability to work in the abstract and explore inner subjectivities differentiates designer from technician. Architectural composition stems from within an inner subjectivity, which is appreciated by users but experienced differently. Our work inspires imagination and speculation to challenge what we already know. Ideas in architecture, art and fashion design have inspired each other across history. Each discipline has its own forms of creative expression explored through divergent mediums and processes. While fashion and architecture involve the human body and the embodiment of craft in creative pursuit, designers push the limits in expressing the material culture of a particular time. What if climate and light filtering strategies as well as fabrication were to be inspired by artisanal collections, to provide unusual settings for promotions and events? This studio will empower our inner subjectivities to create form in light within a couture pavilion, using daylight and shadow to modulate space with enclosure. Design of night-time use and conditions would also be planned as part of the entire diurnal experience.

TOP-UP THE MSCPS! MULTI-STOREY CAR-PARKS IN A CAR-LITE FUTURE: RECLAIM, RETHINK, RESTORE, REUSE, REINVENT, RETURN, REPOPULATE & REDESIGN

Tutor: Ruzica Bozovic Stamenovic

The second edition of the design studio dedicated to multi-storey carparks will examine the possibility of topping up existing HDB garage structures, turning their uncanny feel and woeful underuse of space into a fertile, resourceful soil for symbiotic architecture to grow atop. The main aim will be to support the well-being of urbanites in a sustainable and resilient way, even as they face more and more pressing challenges in life. Students will individually set their own advanced thinking concepts and future-oriented programmes, to develop the appropriate design methodology. The studio will run in experimental mode, with weekly exercises and “discussion-experimentation-production-application” design processes thoroughly documented in the studio report.

URBAN SPACES OF ONE-NORTH: COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS AND RULE-BASED DESIGN

Tutor: Rudi Stouffs (Co-teaching with Patrick Janssen)

Through data collection and computational analysis, the urban spaces of One-North will be assessed from various viewpoints, including accessibility, integration, visibility, human comfort and other requirements. Shortcomings may be countered through design and planning, and design actions expressed in the form of design rules that apply to the existing situation in order to achieve a preferable outcome. Reflecting on the desired objectives of cohesion, vibrancy and liveability, design rules would formulate these into actions and operations. Embedding both conditions and parameters for application, design rules will operate on the data at hand, and express geometric and semantic transformations. Alternative design outcomes may also be explored.

SHARING CITIES: NUS-TSINGHUA-DPA JOINT STUDIO

Tutor: Zhang Ye

The city is the quintessential shared spatial environment. Today, the exercise of sharing is often too narrowly conceived, and perceived, as being primarily about economic transactions. From this perspective, space is solely seen as a resource of economic production and consumption, rather than the foundational reality where our societies and cultures unfold, develop and evolve. While space is undoubtedly a kind of sharable good, space is also a generative reality: many forms of sharing activities inadvertently lead to the creation of new spatial typologies, which in turn can facilitate and foster new socio-economic formations.

This studio is part of the NUS-Tsinghua Design Research Initiative for Sharing Cities (www.nt-drisc.org). This joint initiative by NUS DOA and Tsinghua University School of Architecture is sponsored by Ng Teng Fong Charitable Foundation (Hong Kong) and held in partnership with DP Architects. It aims to bring together scholars and students from two top Asian architecture schools, as well as like-minded experts and professionals, in exploring emerging space-sharing practices and new dedicated typologies of shared spaces in cities. In conjunction with this studio, three workshops in Singapore and Beijing have been tentatively planned for the beginning, middle, and end of the semester respectively, to bring together students and scholars for exchange of ideas (subject to restrictions imposed due to COVID-19). Air tickets and accommodations for NUS students involved in this studio would be fully sponsored, should these workshops proceed as planned.

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Picture credit: Tang Jia-Yi, Rachel AR5601 URBAN DESIGN THEORY AND PRAXIS Modular Credits: 4

This module will provide a comprehensive and indepth examination of the theories, methodologies and praxis of urban design. It will introduce ideas that are instrumental in establishing the foundations of urban design, examine rationales and strategies for creating vital and lively urban spaces, and explore key issues and the myriad challenges facing urban design both today and in the future. In particular, this module will view urban design from a place-making perspective—ranging from physical to social, tangible to intangible, and global to local—with a primary focus on topics such as urban form, density, diversity, identity, public space, community, and sustainability. AR5423 ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE Modular Credits: 4

This module will provide students with foundational knowledge and understanding required to enter architectural practice, and will give students an overview of the key aspects of running an architectural firm. It will introduce students to office management and to using a system to help to manage information, processes, and risk, to ensure consistent project delivery. Lectures and assignments will be designed to simulate the running of a project, demonstrating what needs to be considered from beginning to end. The lecture notes and slides provided will be intended not only for academic learning but also for students to use as a guide and resource when they enter practice.

AR5321 ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL INTEGRATION Modular Credits: 4

The module will offer learning experiences in multidisciplinary collaboration and problem-solving between architects and engineers, to prepare students for contemporary architectural practice. Students will look at case studies that will provide an overview of the foundations for interdisciplinary collaboration. A series of lectures on advanced architectural technologies will also illustrate how multidisciplinary collaboration can produce innovative architecture. Students will then draw up group proposals for innovative integrated building systems aimed at achieving optimisation, performance, and aesthetic goals, in collaboration with lecturers and consultants who are architects and engineers. AR5221 CONTEMPORARY THEORIES Modular Credits: 4

This module aims to expose architecture students to an array of intellectual ideas and theoretical positions by drawing from an expanded field of discourse that includes architecture, urban studies, design, and the humanities. This broad focus acknowledges the unique nature of architectural education, the manifold forces that shape the design of a building, and the role an architect plays in society. The lecture and assignments will be based around nine topics: atmosphere, interior, representation, capital, agency, security, networks, infrastructure, and the Anthropocene.

Modular Credits: 4

Graduate level electives are seminal learning experiences for Master of Architecture students. Taught in a seminar format, electives are aligned with research clusters, as well as faculty members’ specific expertise and research efforts, and provide a wide range of contemporary topics to enrich an architect’s education. Deep dives into specific themes allow students to align their personal interests in architecture with graduate-level research, thinking, making and writing.

SEMESTER 1 FACULTY OFFERING Chen Yu Simone Chung Fung John Chye Filip Biljecki Nikhil Joshi Lau Siu Kit, Eddie Joseph Lim Tomohisa Miyauchi Melany Park Swinal Samant Ravindranath Rudi Stouffs Tan Beng Kiang Tay Kheng Soon Teh Kem Jin Zdravko Trivic Johannes Widodo Wong Yunn Chii Yuan Chao

SEMESTER 2 FACULTY OFFERING Erieta Attali Filip Biljecki Francois Blanciak Habib Chaudhury Florian Heinzelmann Thomas Kong Tsuto Sakamoto Ruzica Bozovic Stamenovic Tan Beng Kiang

SPECIAL SEMESTER OFFERING Cho Im Sik Shinya Okuda Tham Wai Hon AR5958E URBAN AND RURAL REGENERATION IN ASIA Tutor: Chen Yu This multi-disciplinary module explores several topics on urban and rural regeneration in Asia. It aims to provoke critical thinking on sustainable planning and design in Asia. Through examining selected regeneration projects from historical, social, economic, and environmental perspectives, theories and principles of this study area will be elaborated on during lecture time. Fieldwork will be organised for students to experience and understand challenges facing regeneration practices in the context of Asia.

AR5958F OVERSEAS CHINESE ARCHITECTURE AND SETTLEMENT Tutor: Chen Yu Studies of overseas Chinese architecture and settlement offer an important perspective in understanding urban and architectural history of Southeast Asia and South China. Cultural exchanges across these regions contributed to hybrid nature of overseas Chinese architecture and vibrancy of built environment. Examining overseas Chinese architecture and settlements built in Southeast Asia and South China during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this module will explore their spatial configuration and architectural expression, revolving around several typologies (i.e. temple, clan association, school, shop, house, cemetery, etc.) and their settings in a broader context.

AR5957F MOVING IMAGE SPACE Tutor: Simone Chung New media and more recent digital technologies have become so ubiquitous in our everyday and professional lives that they have become integral to space planning, design, and spatial experience, as tools for visual representation and expression. Capitalising on the temporal feature of the cinematic image, moving images possess the capacity to reveal how space is—and can be— differently organised and experienced. Profilmic mapping techniques, when properly employed for analysis, also allow us to unpack embedded spatial and socio-cultural information shaping the lived environment, revealing certain inherent biases governing the logic of spatial configuration. AR5958B HUMAN ECOLOGY: AGEING AND THE ENVIRONMENT Tutor: Fung John Chye Rapidly ageing populations are a pressing issue globally, and there is a growing recognition that the urban environment poses many challenges to older people. This module will familiarise students with a critical understanding of the role that the environment plays in impeding or supporting ageing in high-density urban conditions, with a focus on Singapore. It will introduce key aspects of ageing and the environment, including functional, psychosocial, urban planning and architectural design, as well as certain considerations for people with dementia. Students will engage in problem-based learning through case studies, neighbourhood studies, studies of environmental behaviours, and explorations into potential interventions to enhance the environment for the aged.

AR5959F INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE Tutor: Filip Biljecki This module will introduce data science and programming in R from scratch. Lectures and computer lab sessions will be conducted, providing hands-on the state-of-the-art tools, datasets, and methods to manipulate, analyse, and visualise data. The module will focus on urban problems, but will be taught in a sufficiently generic manner so that knowledge attained may be transferrable to other domains.

AR5957D THE DEMOCRATISATION OF HERITAGE: “SEEING” AND “TELLING” THE HERITAGE OF EVERYDAY PLACES Tutor: Nikhil Joshi In the context of management of built heritage, this module critically analyses the contemporary discourses on heritage, and how these are used in politics, economy and community identity-building in Singapore and other Asian nations. This module will focus on questions of value, and on the understanding of how and why only specific components of the historic environment are considered significant by authorities. This module will introduce the visual methodologies needed to understand and interpret the ideas of heritage among various stakeholders. It will explore the need to accommodate a growing diversity of stakeholders, and support active dialogue between stakeholders centred on everyday places that are extraordinary and rich in significance. AR5959A ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS Tutor: Lau Siu Kit, Eddie Architectural acoustics describes the art and science of interactions between people and sounds in indoor and outdoor spaces. Students will be introduced to fundamental knowledge and skills with regard to: principles of sound generation, propagation, and reception; and properties of materials for sound absorption, reflection, and transmission. In addition, we will examine the characteristics of sound: What makes sound in buildings and urban areas? How can sound influence the way people perceive a space? This module will be directed towards a focus on design criteria, model simulation, and prediction of acoustics performance.

AR5959G STRUCTURAL STRATEGIES IN ARCHITECTURAL FORM Tutor: Joseph Lim When building structures follow the shape of architectural forms and arrangements of space, there often arises the condition of discontinuous supports and the amplification of loads through eccentricities. The art of redirecting load paths in compromised structural geometries is an important design strategy for architects and of great relevance and interest to designers. The work of leading architects and structural engineers will be used to illustrate how “redirected forces follow form” and how structure can compensate for inherently unstable forms in architecture.

AR5957A CURATING ARCHITECTURE – EXPLORING ALTERNATIVE MEDIUMS FOR ARCHITECTURE Tutor: Tomohisa Miyauchi The module aims to provide opportunities for students to work collaboratively on school-related publications and events, with the aim of developing critical and curatorial skills in the discourse of architecture. Students will be expected to publish books and organise events of academic quality as their deliverables. Also, they will be encouraged to explore alternative mediums such as poetry, photography, film, painting, sculpture and other modes of conceptualisation and communication in architecture.

AR5957G MODERN ARCHITECTURE, CULTURES OF BUILDING, AND REPRESENTATION IN EAST ASIA Tutor: Melany Park This course introduces late 19th and 20th century architecture, its representation, and modern cultures of building in Japan, Korea, and China, through a comparative and interregional approach. The course asks: How were institutional and technical lineages of construction transmitted throughout modern East Asia? What role did the politics of the nation-state play in fostering, catalysing, or impeding the transmission of architectural knowledge? How was land and the city imagined in the wake of post-war destruction? Major themes that will be covered include modernity, colonialism, nationalism, technology, historiography, and globalisation.

AR5959C MIND THE GAPS: CRITIQUING URBAN SPACES IN THE CONTEXT OF HIGH-DENSITY VERTICAL ENVIRONMENTS Tutor: Swinal Samant Ravindranath In the context of urban intensification, this module will engage students in supervised research on specific urban spaces within Singapore that function as nuclei for people, programmes, and facilities due to their spatial, visual, and functional characteristics. More specifically, it seeks to explore and understand the myriad challenges and possibilities presented by our transit-oriented environments, and the urban spaces that they encompass as well as those that envelope them; spaces within, between and around. The main themes expected to be investigated include connectivity and flexibility, multi-modal/multi-speed transport integration, programmes, and typologies; environmental performance and green/social democratic spaces..

AR5959D SHAPE COMPUTATION Tutor: Rudi Stouffs Parametric/associative modelling has received much attention. There are obvious benefits to modelling a family of design alternatives instead of just a single design. However, developing a parametric model requires a prior understanding of the likely outcome to be able to identify the desired parameters and associations. In this module, we will look closely at an alternative approach of rulebased modelling, using graphically defined shape rules. We will explore the advantages and disadvantages of this rule-based approach in an application to design within the Rhino/Grasshopper environment. AR5958A TOPICS IN URBAN STUDIES – HOUSING (PRE AND POST COVID-19 PANDEMIC) Tutor: Tan Beng Kiang This module covers the history and evolution of housing in Singapore (planning, design, and policy) with a focus on public housing. It will explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on future housing planning and design. This will be a seminar-based discussion class, conducted primarily online and tapping on webinars held globally as an additional resource.

AR5955H TECHNIQUES AND CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE 3D PLANNING OF SINGAPORE’S LAND AND SEA SPACES Tutor: Tay Kheng Soon Contemporary architecture is in crisis. The context of climate and environmental degradation has been starkly brought home by the COVID-19 pandemic. This lecture/workshop elective will introduce students to larger perspectives on the human and nature interface, through considering the mathematics and aesthetics of Singapore’s floor space relative to land and sea spaces. Water, food, energy, foreign labour, economy in the context of global economic stagnation, regionalisation, teleworking, urban morphology, transportation, and climate adaptation will all be encountered interconnectedly in this challenging team work elective.

AR5959B DESIGN FOR FIRE SAFETY IN BUILDINGS Tutor: Teh Kem Jin This module will focus on the study of the principles of fire safety and how these are applied in architectural design in Singapore. The Singapore Fire Code will serve as the primary reference document. This study will not only enable a clearer understanding of fire safety and its implications for building design here, but will also be used to prompt a discussion of how fire safety strategies may be used to contribute to design thinking and conceptualisation.

AR5958D CITY AND THE SENSES: A MULTI-SENSORY APPROACH TO URBANISM Tutor: Zdravko Trivic Multi-sensory experience is central to the design of urban built environments and to an overall sense of well-being. However, contemporary cities are often either sensory overwhelming or sensory depleting, with design practices historically prioritising the visual over other senses. This elective will provide a comprehensive overview of the growing interdisciplinary scholarship on the senses, with a primary focus on multi-sensory approaches to urban design, drawing from phenomenology, psychogeography, anthropology, ethnography, environmental psychology and other related theoretical discourses. It also explores various means and techniques to capture, gather, measure, analyse, assess, represent or visualise, and design urban environments from the perspective of multisensory experience. AR5958C TYPO-MORPHOLOGY IN ARCHITECTURE Tutor: Johannes Widodo This elective module will deal with the methodology of urban analysis, based on the holistic understanding of the architecture of the city in terms of its layers (morphological, sociological, and symbolic) on different scale levels (from dwelling unit, urban segment, city, to region), transformed over historical periods (time). The analysis will employ both synchronic and diachronic readings of the urban tissue. This full continuous assessment module will be delivered through a combination of workshops and seminars.

AR5957E ARCHITECTURE AND ITS SETTING IN SINGAPORE Tutor: Wong Yunn Chii This module will involve a detailed study of architecture and related built environments in Singapore since its founding as a colonial trading settlement by Stamford Raffles, through its various stages of physical development from independence to the present day. It will examine how particular edifices and places were understood, studied, and described, from within and without, under various kinds of discursive structures. These sites will be studied in the context of the historical moments of the island state: as a colony, a nation-state and as a global city. The module will cover architects and their works, unbuilt projects, and lost buildings and places by consulting various sources of evidence. The module will consult a variety of histories—institutional, professional, social-political—to develop a more robust narrative of the making of Singapore’s architecture within a landscape history.

AR5959E INTEGRATED URBAN WIND ENVIRONMENT DESIGN Tutor: Yuan Chao This module is focused on architectural and urban design principles to improve the urban wind environment. Managing the urban wind environment is essential to address many urban environmental issues, such as urban heat islands and poor air quality. This module aims to provide students with theoretical knowledge and handson skills on performance and evidence-based planning and design strategies. It will introduce the multi-scale approach to urban wind environment design, to provide a comfortable, highquality living environment and minimise the use of scarce natural resources. After reviewing the effects of wind environment on urban heat islands, anthropogenic heat dispersion, thermal comfort, and air quality, students will gain an understanding as to why it is necessary to conduct wind analyses in urban planning and design. To this end, an introduction will be made on simulations and other applicable tools for planning and design practices, from the urban scale to the building scale. The simulation component of the module will enable and encourage students to apply wind principles to real design problems: including the identification of important wind criteria, spatial scales, and issues in the particular design process, as well as the expression of simulation results in comparing design options.

AR5957K BUILDING IMAGES: URBAN ANATOMY Tutor: Erieta Attali Architectural photography primarily deals with the relationship between artifacts and their environments, or the dipole of building and landscape. Cities represent a special case in this model of thought. Urban landscapes have their own seasons, circadian rhythms and sociopolitical ecosystems. From historical centres and high-density commercial developments, to suburban sprawls and post-industrial brownfields, urban landscapes enmesh past, present, and future. The intention during this photographic exploration will be to capture this fusion of different elements of Singapore, and convert it into a new cityscape through visual exploration.

AR5957L LANDSCAPE INTO ARCHITECTURE: THE INVERSION OF CONTENT AND CONTEXT IN ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY Tutor: Erieta Attali Photography of buildings and landscapes exists in a synergistic relationship with architectural history, theory and design: these all build a framework for the analysis and communication of architecture, within the context of a larger culture. Apart from this parallel relationship, there also exists a more direct and reciprocal connection between photography, theory and the design process. This connection lies in the fact that a photographic understanding of architectural works in relation to their environment essentially amounts to an act of translation: one that builds a visual language for the expression of architectural ideas. In line with this, this photography course will aim to cultivate a context-aware visual perception on the part of the architectural photographer and the architect.

AR5959J GEOGRAPHIC DATA SCIENCE AND URBAN ANALYTICS Tutor: Filip Biljecki This module will provide an introduction to urban analytics, including the basics of geographic data science. This is a continuation to the elective Introduction to Data Science offered in in Semester 1, with an added focus on urban data and the addition of intermediate data science topics, coupled with geospatial data and geographic information system (GIS) techniques.

AR5957J ARCHITECTURE AND DIAGRAMMES Tutor: Francois Blanciak This elective aims to provide students with an overview of various techniques of production and theories that relate to architectural diagrammes. Students will learn how to analyse buildings from a diagrammatic point of view, gain knowledge of the history and theory of diagrammes in architecture, and develop skills to generate urban and architectural diagrammes in direct relation to design studio projects. AR5958I AGEING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT Tutor: Habib Chaudhury The built environment is an important factor in older people’s physical, social, and emotional well-being. Older adults’ interaction with the environment is affected by their physical capabilities, psychological needs and preferences, and socio-cultural rules. This course will address design criteria, principles, and solutions for older adults with physical and/or cognitive declines. Key topics that will be dealt with include: theories of person-environment interaction; sensory changes with ageing and their influence on environmental experience; architectural design issues in community and institutional settings for older adults; therapeutic goals and design principles for people with dementia; and methods of environmental evaluation.

AR5955A TROPICAL TIMBER MICRO-INTERVENTIONS Tutor: Florian Heinzelmann Southeast Asia has a rich history in vernacular timber structures. In addition, wood as a construction material outperforms many other materials when it comes to embodied energy. These factors present advantages to using wood as a material in this region. The question for this elective is: How can one design contemporary timber structures in the tropics, so that they not only withstand microclimatic conditions but also pests and deterioration? The focus in particular will be on applying this in Singapore, to the design and construction of microinterventions: smaller structures of up to around 100 square metres serving communal functions, and situated in public spaces in relation to the layout or programmes of a neighbourhood.

AR5957I DE-SIGNING ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION Tutor: Thomas Kong Architectural education occupies a unique place among other professional programmes at a university. Located at the intersection of different fields and disciplines, it has a long and at times contentious history. De-signing Architectural Education examines architectural education from the inside-out. The module looks at the history and theories of architectural education through case studies, readings, conversations, and interviews. Students will research the state of architectural education in the past and present, and examine various architectural pedagogies and their associated theories, to gain deeper insight into a pedagogical experience of which they will be both inculcated participants and change advocates. AR5957H ARCHITECTURAL IDEAS FROM THE EXPANDED FIELD Tutor: Tsuto Sakamoto The recent rise of intelligent technology and awareness of global climate change has affected architectural practice and ideas significantly. In the light of the circumstances, human-centric ideas have been questioned, criticised and re-examined. By studying these theories both in and out of architectural discourse, the course aims to develop critical discussion and produce ideas that contribute to architectural design strategies and methods. The course has been designed for participants to first gain an understanding of the substance of key theories, and then subsequently translate these into practical knowledge which supports architectural design and thinking. This course will also help build up participants’ knowledge in preparation for the M Arch Architectural Design Thesis.

AR5958G HUMAN ECOLOGY – SPACE & HEALTH SPECIAL: DISCUSSING THE SENSORIAL Tutor: Ruzica Bozovic Stamenovic This module is a critical enquiry into the role of sensorial apparatus in processes connecting space to physical, psychological, as well as social well-being. In a “reverse model” teaching environment where lectures are available ahead of weekly dialogues, participants will debate the issues from the standpoint of sensory driven perception. Lectures will cover: topics in history-theory (culture/ context-related evolution of healthful design and ageing); holistic approaches to sensorial design (the progression from healthy to healing); and pragmatic topics and methods (universal design and investigative practices). Deliverables will be small-scale design exercises and a short essay to demonstrate students’ skills of analytical design enquiry.

AR5958H TOPICS IN URBAN STUDIES - PARTICIPATORY COMMUNITY DESIGN Tutor: Tan Beng Kiang This module introduces concepts and practices in participatory planning and design at the community scale. Major topics include a brief history of participation (both in Singapore and globally); why participation is needed; benefits and problems; methods of participatory community design; and case studies. Students will be expected to participate in hands-on projects to apply methods learnt.

ARSPSEM URBAN SPACE DESIGN FOR SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY IN HIGH-DENSITY ENVIRONMENTS (PRESENTED DURING THE SPECIAL SEMESTER) Tutor: Cho Im Sik

AR5955G COLLABORATIONS IN ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING Tutor: Shinya Okuda This elective will provide learning experiences in multidisciplinary collaboration and problem-solving between architects and engineers, to prepare students for actual contemporary practice. The course will begin with testing and establishing inter-operability workflows, which will provide the foundation for multi-disciplinary collaborations. A series of design-engineering iterations will be made and submitted as entries to the International Building Design Competition held by Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority (BCA). In preparing these, students will facilitate multi-disciplinary discussions and acquire advanced technical skill sets required in the fields of sustainable building designs, design for manufacturing and assembly, and integrated digital delivery. Under the guidance of lecturers from NUS Department of Architecture and School of Civil Engineering, students will participate in design and engineering tutorials to create innovative proposals for optimisation, performance, and achievement of aesthetic goals.

ARSPSEM BUZZ OFF! PART 2 Tutor: Tham Wai Hon This is an elective (4MC) that builds upon the outcomes of the earlier Buzz Off! Studio. Should the outcomes of the first Buzz Off! Studio be selected for inclusion in the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021, the team could potentially have a budget of US$15,000 to prepare, execute and situate a “refuge” measuring 4 metres x 4 metres x 6 metres, representing the architect’s response to mosquito and mosquito-borne epidemics. Studio participants would work closely with tutors to create, edit and produce materials to be exhibited, and develop details and drawings to communicate their design intentions in Seoul. The resulting work would then be displayed at the Biennale, with the team potentially having the chance to attend the Biennale’s opening as well. NUS DOA’s Architecture Internship Programme is an essential practical component that complements students’ architectural education in the classroom.

Under this internship programme, M Arch I students undergo 6-month work attachments at firms or organisations in the fields of architecture, design, infrastructure and urban planning. This provides students with valuable exposure to a range of professional experiences and skills which cannot be taught in a traditional university setting. It also allows them to observe practitioners at work, see how classroom learning translates to the workplace, and experience the rhythms, ebbs and flows of life on a job in architecture and its related fields.

Finally, the internship also helps the student progress in his or her maturity and understanding of the industry, in preparation for entry to the M Arch II programme. 103 EAST Architects 3PA A D Lab Aedas AGA Architects aKTa-rchitects ARC Studio Architecture + Urbanism architects 61 Architects Team 3 Archurban Architects Planners CENDES+TENarchitects & Planners Czarl Architects Design Metabolists DP Architects East 9 Architects & Planners EHKA Studio EZRA Architects FARM Architects FDAT Architects Formwerkz Architects Forum Architects Gensler Singapore Goy Architects Hassell Design (Singapore) HCF and Associates Housing & Development Board K2LD Architects RSP Architects Planners & Engineers Studiogoto Surbana International Consultants Surbana Jurong Consultants Swan & Maclaren Architects Swing Architects TA.LE Architects Teh Joo Heng Architects TENarchitects The Architects Circle Tierra Design Studio TOPOS Architects Twosquarefeet Design Studio Type0 Architects W Architects WASAA Architects & Associates White Matter Design Studio WOHA Architects Xcube Architects ZIVY Architects

M ARCH II

AR5805 ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE STUDIO (SEMESTER 1) Modular Credits: 8

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AR5806 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN RESEARCH REPORT (SEMESTER 1) Modular Credits: 4

The Architectural Design Research Report is an A4 hardcopy and PDF compendium that would capture research, design and presentation materials on the student’s design thesis. This report should build and elaborate on a body of evidence through creative practice research, using writing, images, and diagrammes. The following should be included in the report:

1. Title of Research 2. Research Abstract (300 words) 3. Research Approach 4. Research Context and Community of Practice 5. Research Outputs 6. Contribution to Knowledge 7. Annotated Bibliography and Review of Literature, Works, and References 8. Image/Resource Index 9. Self-Disclosure of Research 10. Ethics Approval as necessary

AR5807 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN THESIS (SEMESTER 2) Modular Credits: 20

The Master of Architecture design thesis will span two semesters and three modules (AR5805, AR5806 and AR5807), establishing the final design criteria for achieving the degree of Master of Architecture. Students will be able to select from a variety of thesis advisors, and either align their theses with their advisors’ research interests and expertise, or pursue their own self-directed thesis themes.

The three modules dealing with the design research thesis have been put together to allow students to develop a high level of competence in creative practice design research; this competence would then lead to architectural outcomes in a wide range of topics. The first two modules, AR5805 and AR5807, will involve creative practice research with direct design outcomes. AR5806 will then synthesise these design research efforts into a full-length design research compendium that complements evidence with textural descriptions, theoretical writing and other written strategies, alongside graphic, photographic and visual material. Its fundamental purpose will be to enable students to develop a rigorous method and deep-dive focus in a specific area of design research. Students will be required to mount a body of evidence to demonstrate that their research has translational potential in the field of architecture through creative practice. Students will also be expected to exercise high-level competence in creative practice research, design thinking, representation and communication.

Learning Objectives: 1. To understand and critically manifest creative practice research methods in an individually directed thesis milieu 2. To understand and take a critical position on creative practice research methods, outcomes, and evidence; and to illustrate the impacts of the modes of research on the formation of an architectural proposition 3. To identify, position and relate individual creative practice research to a community of practice 4. To position individual research in the larger domain of architecture and to communicate how creative practice research advances the discipline 5. To understand and take a critical position on translation of creative practice research outcomes into architectural approaches, techniques, and strategies or tactics 6. To design with creative practice research and conceptual tools, and to be able to make informed ethical judgments in architecture 7. To utilise advanced representational techniques (i.e. digital and analogue media) to communicate research, design iterations, and design techniques in architecture 8. To utilise advanced digital data, visualisations, contemporary simulations in 2D, 3D, and 4D mediums to research architectural approaches to design. 9. To utilise advanced analogue and digital tools in making 10. To communicate creative practice ideas in concise and considered verbal, written, and performative presentations, utilising a wide range of mediums.

Hans Brouwer Adjunct Associate Professor; B Arch (University of Southern California); MSIA, Registered Architect, Singapore

Chang Jiat Hwee Associate Professor; PhD (University of California, Berkeley), M Arch, BA Arch Studies (National University of Singapore)

Chaw Chih Wen M Arch, B Arch (National University of Singapore); MSIA, Registered Architect, Singapore

Cheah Kok Ming Associate Professor; B Arch, BA Arch Studies (National University of Singapore); Registered Architect, Singapore

Lilian Chee Associate Professor, Deputy Head (Academic); PhD, MSc Arch History (University College London), B Arch, BA Arch Studies (National University of Singapore)

Fung John Chye Associate Professor in Practice; B Arch (National University of Singapore); Registered Architect, Singapore

Ho Puay Peng Professor, Head of Department; PhD (University of London), M Arch, Dip Arch (University of Edinburgh); RIBA

Richard Ho Professor in Practice; B Arch (National University of Singapore); MSIA, Registered Architect, Singapore

Ho Weng Hin Adjunct Senior Lecturer; Dip Specialists in Restauro dei Monumenti (Université de Genève), M Arch, BA Arch Studies (National University of Singapore)

Patrick Janssen Associate Professor; PhD (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), MSc (Cog Sci Int Comp) (Westminister University), AA Dip

Khoo Peng Beng Adjunct Associate Professor; B Arch (National University of Singapore); RIBA, MSIA, Registered Architect, Singapore

Nirmal Kishnani Associate Professor, MSc ISD Programme Director; PhD (Curtin University of Technology), MSc (Env Psych) (University of Surrey), BA Arch (National University of Singapore)

Thomas Kong Associate Professor; M Arch (Cranbrook Academy of Art), B Arch (National University of Singapore); Assoc. AIA, Registered Architect, Singapore

Adrian Lai Adjunct Assistant Professor; AA Dip, BA Arch (National University of Singapore); MSIA, ARB, Registered Architect, Singapore and the UK Lee Kah Wee Assistant Professor, MUP Associate Programme Director; PhD (University of California, Berkeley), MA Arch (National University of Singapore), B Arch (University of New South Wales)

Erik G. L’Heureux Dean’s Chair Associate Professor, Vice Dean, M Arch Programme Director; M Arch (Princeton University), BA Arch (Washington University in St. Louis); FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, NCARB, Registered Architect, USA (New York and Rhode Island)

Joseph Lim Associate Professor; PhD (Heriot-Watt University), MSc (University of Strathclyde), B Arch (National University of Singapore); MSIA, Registered Architect, Singapore

Neo Sei Hwa Adjunct Associate Professor; B Arch (National University of Singapore), BA Arch Studies (National University of Singapore); MSIA, Registered Architect, Singapore

Shinya Okuda Associate Professor; M Eng, B Eng (Kyoto Institute of Technology); Registered Architect, Japan and the Netherlands

Ong Ker-Shing Associate Professor in Practice, BA Arch Programme Director; M Arch, MLA (Harvard University); MSIA, Registered Architect and SILA, Registered Landscape Architect, Singapore

Tsuto Sakamoto Associate Professor; M Eng (Waseda University), MSc (Columbia University), B Eng Science (University of Tokyo)

Swinal Samant Ravindranath Senior Lecturer; PhD and PGCHE (The University of Nottingham), M Arch (The University of Sheffield), Dip Arch (Institute of Environmental Design)

Peter Sim Adjunct Assistant Professor; B Arch, BA Arch (National University of Singapore); ARB, Registered Architect, UK

Ruzica Bozovic Stamenovic Associate Professor, Deputy Head (Administration and Finance); ScD, MSc (University of Belgrade), Spec Arch, Dip Eng Arch (University of Belgrade); Registered Architect, Serbia

Rudi Stouffs Dean’s Chair Associate Professor; PhD, MSc (Arch Comp Design) (Carnegie Mellon University), MSc (ArchEng), Ir-Arch (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Tan Beng Kiang Associate Professor; DDes (Harvard University), M Arch (University of California, Los Angeles), B Arch (National University of Singapore); MSIA, Registered Architect, Singapore

Teh Joo Heng Adjunct Associate Professor; SMArchS (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), B Arch (National University of Singapore); MSIA, Registered Architect, Singapore