BYEGONES OF A NATION
Project title: Byegones of a Nation Student name : Andre Wee Supervisor : Adam Pustola
This project aims to to celebrates the local consequences within Singapore’s built environment. It investigates ideas of preservation and identity and placemaking. The provocation of a true vernacular that looks at the immediate condition of place. The conditions of the that contains the memories of the conventional, mundane and everyday. The vernacular relishes itself as past and present iterations of itself, staking significant junctions in the perpetual urban development of the city through the megastructure. This proposition is creating a centre of localities. creating a new “complex” of distinct local commercial conditions and phenomena. The hybridization of local artefacts and typological shifts needed to forge an enduring identity. The Market, The shophouse, The Void deck, The bazaar and the HDB Block. These objects represent the true vernacular of Singapore. These objects come together in compliance with the grid negotiating the existing immigrant enclave of the people park complex. Each being key interventions of their own revealing moments of intersections, disconnect and connect, revelation and concealment. These acts of intervention each seek re-integration of citizens and newer immigrants in becoming the true city room an ensemble of working class commercial urbanity. It hopes that this cross pollination of culture drives the displacement of migrant program into the vernacular spaces resulting in a transmutation of cultural activities.
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SENTOSA MERLION Built in 1995 by Australian sculptor James Martin Expiry Date Oct 2020
1973 MIX RESIDENTIAL ‘COMPLEX’ PROTOTYPE
TROPICAL BRUSTALISM .2020
1819
Overcrowding of Chinatown within decades of Singapore’s founding in
1822
Implementation of five foot walkways and tiled roofs in the Raffles’s Plan
1843
only when parcels of land were leased or granted to the public in and after 1843 for the building of houses and shophouses, did Chinatown's physical development truly begin.
1930
The Sungei Road flea market began in the 1930s as a rent-free hawking area and was in its heyday known as a place to trade stolen, smuggled or illegal goods, hence its alternative moniker – “Thieves Market”.
1960
Relocation of residents at the initiation of Singapore’s governmental Housing Development Board in the 1960s.
1965
After being expelled from Malaysia, Singapore became independent as the Republic of Singapore
1966
People's Market or Pearl's Market with outdoor stalls which was destroyed by a FIRE in 1966
1970
The shopping centre was completed in October 1970. Designed by Design Partnership.
1973
residential block was completed in 1973.
1983
Relocation of all street hawkers into the newly built Kreta Ayer Complex in 1983, which is today’s Chinatown Complex.
1995
Design Partnership added verticals to the building’s roof, enhancing the visual impact of the residential block
1998
Facelift painted in an orange and-green
2003
The adjacent Chinatown MRT North East line was Opening
2009
Painted yellow and green
2017
closure of flea market- these vendors have been since on the move without a permanent hawking place. Some vendors continue to hawk illegally in chinatown
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