Amalgamation Resilient Amphibious Territory

Reconstructing Tacloban’s Fishing Industry

Erica Chan (M Arch\ Senior Lecturer Tomohisa Miyauchi)

In November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan struck portions of Southeast Asia and left the Philippines particularly devastated. Typhoon Haiyan affected 14 million Filipinos, killing approximately 6,300 people and displacing more than 6 million residents. One of the harshest-hit areas of this disaster is the City of Tacloban in the Eastern Visayas region.

Tacloban is the capital city of the province of Leyte and was developed from a small fishing village to what it is today – major economic drivers of the city are its portandfishingindustry.ThelethaleffectsoftheTyphonsawhomes,communities andpublicinfrastructuresinTaclobandestroyedanddamaged.Livelihoodswere alsodisrupted.Consequently,thecityfacedmassivehumanitariancrisissuchas, lack of shelter, food, clean water and medical supplies. The strong storm surges of Typhoon Haiyan also destroyed the port and crippled the fishing industry and its economy.

Leow Cheng Ting Anthony (M Arch\ Assistance Professor Oscar Carracedo)

Slums and squatters are the by-products of rapid urbanization in developing countries.Mumbai,transformingfromafishingvillagetonowtheeconomiccapital of India, best represents the territorial conflict between centralized developments and autonomous settlements. Although the stem of urban informal settlement is a manifestation of inadequate provision of affordable housing, solution to emphasize the “efficiency” of direct housing provision should not overpower the importance of such “effectiveness”. While more than half of the population in Mumbai is living in such unsatisfactory condition, fully reliance on either government or private investors to achieve a replicable model of rehabilitation is unrealistic.

Underanassumedcooperativeframeworkamonggovernment,privateinvestors and slum dwellers, and architects/architecture, this thesis uses Kumbharwada, a pottery village in Dharavi as a proposal for concept change and shift in practice to balance the redevelopment. Instead of providing a “complete but useless house”, a “functional module” is proposed to facilitate and catalyse an autonomous redevelopment that has been observed. In contrast to the convention onesize-fit-allsolution,thedesignstrategydevelopedseveraldeviceswhichreactto specific conditions in micro scale and aims to reconcile the diverse needs from within.

TOPOGRAPHIES Singapore Metropolitan Region and The Architecture of Borders