Book of Architectural Experiences - Masters Portfolio

SAKINA’S BOOK OF

Architectural Experiences A COLLECTION OF WORKS FROM 5 YEARS OF ARCHITECTURE IN NUS

AID ARKS: THE DISPLACED & NEGLECTED

Contents

01 Temporary Housing Barge

An alternative proposition to the problem of bad temporary housing conditions in disaster relief and refugee camps.

iLight Festival Lanterns

02 Floating Wastewater Treatment

An alternative proposition to the problem of improper waste management in disaster relief and refugee camps.

03 Alternative Reconfigurable Uses

04 05 Seigaiha Light Pavilion

Reconfigurations using the primary temporary housing barge structure to form a floating campus, a starter kit for floating cities, and a migrant town.

EXPERIENCES OF LIGHT & SHADOW

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ON ENTRY & ACCESS

Labrador Art Gallery

3D printed group of lanterns casting a continuous shadow grid space, presented during the Marina Bay iLight Festival 2016.

07 Marina Music Mediatheque

Seigaiha patterns create shadows within a pavilion that brings together sun, sand, and sea in East Coast Park.

Using an art gallery to create a different experience of entering into the hidden Labrador Park.

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Exploring the idea of a building with complete public access and public facilities amongst the private skyscrapers of Marina Bay.

MAKING

Print Works & Architectural Models

A collection of prints using different printmaking mediums and architectural models over the years.

AID ARKS: THE DISPLACED & NEGLECTED The relentless rise in human displacement worldwide, exacerbated by the increasing frequency of disasters and conflicts, is especially crucial today as governments and not-for-profit organizations have yet to provide an adequate solution. Faced with such a predicament in especially challenging site conditions, this thesis proposes an architectural solution to this problem based on six key global issues of disaster and conflict induced human displacement: slow emergency response times, shortage of medical infrastructure, inadequate handling of burials, improper waste management, bad temporary housing conditions, and slow government response in restoration processes. Â This thesis proposes an alternative to the current restrictive land based solutions: the floating relief settlement would provide relief aid in the form of logistics units, hospitals and crematoriums via sea. Quick assembly floating temporary housing and wastewater treatment helps relieve land pressures, leaving sites clear for cleaning up debris and rebuilding efforts.

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Temporary Housing Barge

The temporary housing barge addresses the problem of bad temporary housing conditions in disaster relief and refugee camps. This barge provides the displaced with amenities that would allow them to experience a sense of safety and community during such hard times.

Adequate temporary housing barges offshore include provisions that allow the displaced to return to normal daily activities such as work, school, and cooking without impeding the restoration and rebuilding of permanent houses on land. It is also sufficient to accommodate at least 500,000 internally displaced people. Being temporary, another consideration for these accommodation barges would be the easy assembly and disassembly of such structures.

Stacked temporary container housing: One module houses up to 5,184 people while only taking up a total footprint of 1.45 sqm/pax, and takes 48 hours to be assembled.

One room container module houses 12 people in flip up beds, and one bathroom container module has 3 showers and 2 cubicles to be shared among 20 people.

Communal Spaces: Such as lecture rooms / study areas fill up 108 sqm of space each, and can hold 65 pax at a time. Other communal spaces such as playgrounds and open seating meet the general needs of survivors besides housing.

The entry deck has netted areas to allow for large play areas and spaces for fishermen to mend their nets.

The semi-submersible nature of the barge allow mangrove plants to be grown, and safe areas for children to swim.

Suspended Farming Decks: The 4,393 sqm area enables farmers to be self-sustaining, and produce up to 900 tons/ha/yr of crops and vegetables without increasing footprint on water.

Manual winches help transport compost and crops in between decks easily. They are then delivered directly to kitchens on the communal decks of the housing barge.

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Floating Wastewater Treatment

The floating wastewater treatment plant addresses the issue of improper waste management in temporary housing sites. It doubles as a central node for the temporary housing community, consisting of headquarters for processing casualty information, and learning spaces for kids, To properly handle the waste generated from the temporary housing barge as well as the other relief structures, the floating wastewater treatment plant has the capacity to treat the wastes of over 500,000 victims and prevent water pollution and spread of water-related communicable diseases.

At the same time, the wastewater treatment plant not only treats waste, but generates potable water for the victims, providing them with a clean water resource that might be unavailable during disasters like tsunamis that destroy and contaminate existing wells.

Disaster central information centre: It holds offices and notice boards to handle housing barge information and direct survivors to the relevant cremation barge to view their deceased loved ones during disasters.

Classrooms and wholesale markets are also located here.

When the information centre is no longer needed, it can be replaced with a play area for students learning here.

Zero Waste vertical farm, waste to water production space: The production spaces within this barge fully treats the wastes from the housing barge, and uses the remaining effluents to produce 14mil m3/yr of clean water, 5,161 tons/yr of compost, and 5,309 tons/yr of crops to be returned to the housing barges, creating a zerowaste, self-sustaining loop.

Aid Arks Masterplan: A total of 1 logistics unit SSAU, 1 floating hospital SSAU, 10 mobile crematorium barges, 106 temporary housing barges, and 3 wastewater treatment plant SSAUs provides relief and closed-loop resources for 549,504 people. These aid provisions sufficiently provide for those 500,000 injured and displaced, and 168,000 casualties in Aceh during the Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster of 2004, which has been recorded as one of the most deadly natural disasters in history.

Aid Arks Masterplan: This settlement has an immediate response time of 36 hours and a total setup time of 180 days, which could then be maintained for 2 to 5 years, the length of time needed for permanent housing to be rebuilt on land post-disaster. The modular nature of the relief components allow it to be scaled up or down according to the requirements of the displaced settlement.

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Alternative Reconfigurable Uses

Reconfigurations using the primary temporary housing barge structure to form a floating campus, a starter kit for floating cities, and a migrant town.

In meeting the requirements of providing relief within a post-disaster timeline, it has resulted in a floating aid settlement that is modular, reconfigurable, and highly flexible. This opens up alternative uses and configurations for uses beyond just providing relief aid. Â The temporary housing barge, that holds ship-to-shore gantry cranes that move containers onto the barges to form high density disaster housing, can alternatively be a starter kit for an offshore floating city.

These barge modules could possibly come together to form a floating shipping construction dock, using scrap materials to build and retrofit decommissioned oil rigs into various programs for a floating city.

Individual SSAUs such as the floating hospital and the wastewater treatment plants would also provide essential resources for a townscale offshore floating settlement. Â Once these offshore floating cities are built, the construction site made out of the temporary housing barge modules could then form a migrant city for those neglected and pushed out of their country due to war and conflict. Because this floating construction site would be located offshore, it becomes a place where refugees would not feel unwanted or exiled in a foreign country, but instead an oasis to wait out the end of conflicts in their home countries.

Alternatively, the floating campus uses the same structure, fitted with performance set-ups, dormitories and sea sports recreation, housing up to 4,896 students.

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i Light Festival Lanterns

Based on the theme of the Marina Bay iLight Festival, “In praise of shadows�, we aimed to create complex organic lantern forms, realized through additive 3D printing, that made juxtaposing geometric shadows.

The experience of 3D printed group of lanterns casting and being contained in a continuous shadow grid space was presented during the Marina Bay iLight Festival 2016.

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Seigaiha Light Pavilion

Seigaiha patterns create shadows within a pavilion that brings together sun, sand, and sea in East Coast Park.

Set on the beaches of East Coast Park, the shadow pavilion creates an experience unlike the other neighbouring beachfront buildings. The pavilion stretches across the running track next to the beach, enticing people to enter. Once inside, one walks on the shadow patterned sand towards the lookout posts where people usually watch the sailors at sea.

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Labrador Art Gallery

In looking into different ways of approaching artworks in an art gallery space, an emphasis was placed on the movement of art patrons through an art gallery, and in extension, through Labrador Park itself. Materiality played an important part in the conceptualization of this art gallery as well.

Initial sketches: Expanding views that emphasize different aspects of the site

Initial sketches: Exploring circulation, rough placement of functions

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Marina Music Mediatheque

Marina Bay, Singapore’s up and coming financial district, is dominated by privately owned buildings. And as such, public accessibility in the area is understandably limited. This project explores the possibility of having a music library, performance spaces, practice areas, and common reading rooms that altogether form a civic building in Marina Bay. The building celebrates the extravagance of Marina Bay, framing the views along the bay.

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Print Works & Architectural Models

“Printmaking is about discovery, about experimentation, about process. Printmaking is loaded with creative problems, and part of the passion it inspires is finding the best possible creative solution to satisfy that visual problem�

- David Jones, Printmaker To the right is a collection of prints using different printmaking mediums over the years. In the following page, the range of architectural models done over the years is displayed as well.

Materiality and 3D technology is explored in these models to express the spatial qualities of the design.

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