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01 International Geographies

The ArchiTecTure of informAl lAndsc Apes p.06-09

Resilience in the Informal Territories of Baseco, Manila p.10-13

The Big Village: Strategies of Inhabitation Along The Ciliwung River, Jakarta p.14

After#Sandy: On the Water’s Edge

02 Regional Topographies

singApore meTropoliTAn region And The ArchiTecTure of borders p.16-19

Coastarina: The Architecture of the Coastal Borders of Sijori p.20-23

Borders between the Wild and the Fabricated: Pasir Ris, Singapore

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The ArchiTecTure of The Tropics p.29-34

A Collection of Architectural Love Stories new modes of reAding p.36

Comfort Routines and Air-Condition

Behavior in Occupants of Public Housing: The Case of Singapore p.37

Photographing the Singapore House: The Construction of A Tropical Fantasy p.38

Thick Envelopes

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A by-product of hardwork, sweat is hot, slippery, and sometimes smelly. It is the consequence of the friction between physical exertion as well as our climate. Living on the equator creates a special relationship with sweat— we secrete it after mere few minutes being outside. Indeed, it is what defines tropical living with all of its pleasure and occasional

The Climate+Territory Design Section at the Department of Architecture at NUS illustrates its own sweat in this simple pamphlet. The intent is to make visible the questions of architecture and landscape that keep us awake and thinking late at night while we navigate the massively changing territories of South East Asia.

The work is crude, the pamphlet a collage, the designs partially digested. The ambition is simple: to render visible the sweat in the Climate+Territory design section to the public, with the hope and promise that future work will get better, more articulate, and refined.

Erik G. L’Heureux Climate + Territory Design Section Leader