Experiencing Architecture (Singapore Travel log 2022)

Architects

“Magnificent

Address: “78 Airport Blvd., Singapore 819666”

JEWEL CHANGI AIRPORT

“As I started to sketch the design ideas, we liked the idea of a fully transparent roof over the building,” says Safdie.

“If there ever was a place where gardens could be a key attraction, it is Singapore,” says Safdie. “

Architect “Moshe Safdie”

THE CROWN JEWEL OF CHANGI AIRPORT

Discovery Slides

The playground was designed like a sculpture resembling a gemstone; with parts that are carved out – the slides, stairs and rope climbs – revealing the coloured interior of the gem. In this way the playground presents itself in duality; a gem balancing on the fifth ring of Jewel with a slide attraction hidden inside.

INTRESTING

Largest indoor park in

Discovery

The viewing deck of the playground will be complex, giving a fantastic view of the entire urally this will make the playsculpture a crowdpleaser but it will also invite and attract children of

in the world / airport

Discovery Slides

the highest accessible point in the entire interior of the airport terminal. Nat crowdpleaser and social media magnet, of all ages

Walking Net

SPACEThe canopy walk is a way for visitor to experience the balance of their way walk across the under forest garden. It is a suspended across a void.

THE CROWN JEWEL OF CHANGI AIRPORT

We arrive to Singa pore Changi Airport around 8.30am. After taking our beg and luagge. We decided to eat breakfast around the Changi Airport because we were too hungry!!

And appont look around the ceiling , I realise that there is roof glass to maximize the use of abundant natural light, and the steel panel is to block some of the abuse light

After having our breakfast, we decided to walk around Changi Aiport Terminal 3. The first thing appone arrive ,I notice is this beau tiful ceiling panel that made out of steel panel or perforated steel that are just look like it is floating

JEWEL CHANGI AIRPORT

After from terminal 3, We when to the Jewel Changi Aiport, Before arrive there , we can heard the waterfall sound and walk for 2 minit I saw this magn eficient man made water fall inside the airport. I can feel that I’m inside a jungle. You can even feel the breeze of wind and air surrounding this space.Even the second garden look floating above!

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At around 11:00am we arrived our hostel and I take a quick nap

At around 3:00 pm , We decided to walk around our hostel to see if there is any intresting place to go and I notice this weird building with brownish exterior with statue surrounded it and decided to go inside.

The interior is dark and with orangy light making the space look like the movie batman movie : Gothman City. It have full of greek mythology god covering both ceiling and walls . Statue of greek mythology god also place around the interior.

Appone go inside, I saw this beautiful interior with art deco and historical archi tecture style surrounded the ceilings and walls

NUS DOA

Client : National University of Singapore (NUS)

Architects : Serie + Multiply Architects, Surbana Jurong

Build Type : Education Build In : 2019

Architecture Type : Contemporary Architecture Size : 81,805 ft2 / 7600 m2

Address: “Singapore 117356, 8 Architecture Dr, Singapore”

“DEP OF ARCHITECTURE ”

An inventive educational architecture developed by the School of Design and Environment at the National University of Singapore, the institutional organization that promotes design, sustainability and education in South East Asia. SDE4 is the first new-build net-zero energy building in Singapore and it is designed as a 8,500-square-metre, six-storey, multi-disciplinary space by Serie + Multiply Architects with Surbana Jurong.

The climate-responsive building includes more than 1,500 square metres of design studio space, a 500-square-metre open plaza; a wide variety of public and social spaces; workshops and research centers; a new cafe and a library.

The building’s flexible design and high efficiency reflect the School’s ambitions of promoting new forms of teaching spaces as a scaffold for re search. Most of the rooms are designed in a variety of sizes to allow a flexible rearrangement of layout for exhibitions, school-specific installations and future change of use.

CONCEPT

Boxes and Platforms

Solar Screens Over-Sailing Roof

The building was developed as a series of juxtaposed boxes on different leveled platforms to express its programmatic contents; this was to counter the preconceived notion that high-energy buildings had to be opaque. The South facing façade is punctuated by alternating terraced volumes, landscape balconies, and informal spaces while the large over-sailing roof protrudes and embeds a tropical portico, built around mature existing trees. This openness allows spaces to flow freely across the envelope of the building, bringing the surrounding landscape into close proximity with interior spaces and vice versa. The east and west facades are covered with an aluminum curtain that filters that sunlight. and more than 1200 solar photovoltaic panels on its rooftop.

SOUTH OVERHANG ROOF

POROUS SPACE

PERMEABLE FACADE

A key feature of the building, which was designed to be energy efficient, is its rooftop hosting more than 1,200 photovoltaic (PV) panels to harness solar energy. This factors into the objective of the building’s design as it is expected to feed a higher surplus of energy back into the

grid over a lifespan of 25 years.

Metal roof system was chosen for the NUS SDE4’s solar panel installation as it provides an ideal platform for mounting solar panels, where the mounting structure can clamps onto the raised ribs of the metal system with out having to make any holes. It is also able to accommodate roof pitches from as low as 2 degrees for solar panels to attain the best performance and harvest more energy.

Further, metal roofs are perfect pairing for solar when it comes to an eco-friendly construction because they offer a solid surface and longterm durability for solar panel installation.

NUS DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

We arrive to NUS Department of Architecture SDE 4 at around 10AM. and there is this wound erfull Lecturer Prof. Tan Beng Kiang giving us a talk and lecturer about their new building for the facualty of Architecture. She also brought us around to experience this building and explaining how the Architect us shadow and light, and the idea of sus tainable to cool the build ing off

“Inside the lecturer room”

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The colour of the walls are peachy and orange which look like the space is always under a golden hour time, with the cons titent hit from the natural sunlight to the wall it look like the building is glowing.

After, done with the talk and visit, I decided to walk around the faculty to see what those this building have offer in term of sustainable and also using natural light as the main source of light for this campus.

Walking down the stairs , I can feel that everytime is a golden bright hour. The shine from the natural light just make the space so comfort able to walk around.

The building’s have double facade both located facing the east and the west. The reason this area is located with this facade is to filter away or control some natural light from shower the interior that may make the space in an uncom fortable temperature.This also to avoid the user to use air cone regular when using this building.

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Beside that ,the perforated steel facade plays its role to provide access to the natural lighting into the internal space which can reduce the demand electrical light The circulation corridors and straight flight staircase are link to multiple volumetric levels.

“Close up of the facade”

The most intersting that I saw is this facade system is not only for shading purposes it is also design to let the student to hang their presentation board when they wish to present outside the studio.

STEEL CEILING PANEL OF DOA SDE 4

And appont look around the ceiling , I realise that there is some thing in a rectangelur form hanging inside the studio class and when I look closely , I saw that i was the sound absorption panel that area hanging all over the ceiling space. It help to reduce the noise that are reflecting of travelling around the space to keep the studio in a control sound.

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When I was walking around that space , I didnt feel any hot , I thought maybe there is a ceiling fans then i realsie due to thr huge opening space , it allow the natural wind to flow into the building, this resulting less ustage of electricity and cost to install fans around that open learning space

The building’s have this huge 4 column facing the front , this is to provided natural ventelation and allow the wind to flow across the building

MIXTURE BETWEEN NATURE AND CONCRETE

When I arrive the center courtyard garden, the space is full of vegetation of differ ent types of tropical plant, It make me, feel that nature is right there in this concrete building, the aestitic that mix between nature and con crete just create the sence of relaxation when I was there.

Spotet this walk way with huge column that support the upper building. Reminded me of the centipede building

The tropical forest courtyard is link etween the old building and the new building which were name the crown frame.

This make me appreat ed more to nature even thought I was surrounded by the concrete blocks of form.

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At around 3:00 pm , We decided to walk around Na tional University Of Singa pore and spotet some really nice architecture building.

Architects : Thomas Heatherwick

Start In : 12 Oct 2012

Build In : 12 March 2015

Architecture

Type : Neofuturistic

Land Area : 2.00 m2

Built Area : 14.00 m2

cost : 45 Million Sing Dollor

Open in : 17 April 2019

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Address: “ 52 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639816”

“ LEARNING HUB SOUTH ”

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This Building the Hive also name as the Learning Hub South that are located in the Nanyang Technological University , Singapre that were take 4 years duration time to build. Other then the hive, the buildings were known as the “dim sum” or “basket building” due to its similier look to the steamer baskets that used to contain “dim sum” : a Chinese traditional cuisine.There is 12 towers with 8 floor in this building. The 12 towers are resemble the giant parsnips vegetable. Unlike other educational building that have traditional format of an educational building with miles of corridors linking box-like rooms, the university asked to design a unique and suited to a contemprary ways of learning.The purpose of the Learning Hub is to be a place where students might meet their lecturer , group mates , future business partner orsomeone they would have an amazing idea with.

The Hive was a finalist for the 2015 World Architecture Festival Commercial Mixed-Use Award in the Future Projects subcategory.

THE HIVE HUB

“first major new building in Asia has offered us an extraordinary opportunity to rethink the traditional university building. In the information age the most important commodity on a campus is social space to meet and bump into and learn from each other.” says Thomas.

“ Collection of handmade concrete towers surrounding a central space that brings everyone together, interspersed with nooks, balconies and gardens for informal collaborative learning,” says Thomas. “

Architect “Thomas Heatherwick”

THE HIVE HUB

We arrive to the hive building that are located in the centre of the Nanyang University Singapore. Before start anything, I were given a briefly talk about the concept and functional of the amazing building.

The rought rounded facade make the building look like it is belong to a mountian or cave jungle, that what I feel when I was visiting there.

The interior wall fin ishes ihave the look of unique kinda look like eypet style . The rocky type of style look make me feel like I am in a cave that are full of advantures. Something like Indiania Jones movie.

The opening of the glass roof alow maximize sun light to shower into the interior with the ustage of artificial light.This make me feel that the space is have a huge spot light but acually it came from the opening of the glass roof.

When I arrived the top floor , I notice that there is alot roof top garden, This place make me feel relax in the busy city.

After walking around this amazing building, I take individual picture with the building, I learn that natural light and venta lation is very important part in design a unique building.

Architects : Jean Francois Milou

Start In : 12 Oct 2012

Build In : 12 March 2015 Architecture Type : Neofuturistic Land Area : 2.00 m2

Built Area : 14.00 m2 cost : 45 Million Sing Dollor Open in : 17 April 2019

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Address: “ 1 St Andrew’s Rd, #01 – 01, Singapore 178957”

ARCHAEOLOGY &

AECHITECTURE”

National gallery Singapore is sited within the boundaries of the late 13th century port settlement of Temasek, the ancient name for Singapore. Two excavations were conducted in the area now occupied by the Gallery’s atrium. The digs uncovered artefacts raging from 14th to 19th centuries, reveal ing an intricate network of livelihoods, trades and cultures in the area.

Significant finds include a Bodhisattva figurine and a seated Buddha figurine from the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368), decorated earthenware (c. 1300s), the lid of a pot of cherry-flavoured toothpaste (c. 1875-1900) and raw flint (c. 1800s)

NATIONAL GALLERY SINGAPORE

“We are joining these two buildings via a new roof structure, a kind of veil that seems to float above the roof level of the two independent structures. This complex draping glass-and-steel structure will filter the intense light of Singapore and create new spaces bathed in natural light..” says Milou.

“ The Gallery will include a strong commercial element and this is part of the broader cultural way of doing things in general, notably when seeking to attract family groups, which will often prefer the option of stopping to eat, particularly if older and younger family members are involved.,” Milou. “

Architect “Jean Francois Milou”

GALLERY SINGAPORE

BUILDING’S CHARACTER

Series of Arches

In the symbolic landscape formed by the two buildings, can be seen with the series of arches. The Supreme Court will symbolize the historical anchoring of the collection while the City Hall building send a message of openness, dynamism and modernity.

Linkages

The National Gallery Singapore’s spectacular longitudinally across the entire site and is, sign’s signature elements and accessed by leading from one of the gallery’s facades, institution.

Owing to its former usage as a court, the building also has a system of access controls that separates the public from the judges and from the prisoners.

In converting the building for its re-use it is this system of con trolled public access that will be removed, giving the former Supreme Court building the character of a palace that is open to the public to wander about in and one in which the spaces, opening out onto each other, form a quiet and a peaceful archi tectural landscape.

CHARACTER

Linkages

spectacular underground concourse extends is, like the roof structure, one of the de by four monumental flights of stairs, each allowing access from every side of the

Filtered Light

Huge giant windows are plastered on the walls providing filtered lights along hall ways and rooms. The architectural work on the existing building will serve to en courage silence, attentiveness, and meditation, leaving the major role to be played by the works in the collection.

NATIONAL GALLEY SINGAPORE

After visiting other buildings, we arrived to the Nation al Gallery of Singapore around 1pm, Appone arrived I saw this old colonial architecture with the mixture of contemporary facade style.

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After entering the space, I saw this huge spaces with colonial architec ture interior with the mixture of modern yet doesnt destroy the orig inally lookl of the build ing. The glass roof allow maximize natural light to shine the interior. The glass and metal work continues onto the roof of the gallery and is supported by a series of tree-like structures made from steel.

The building uses the aluminium filigreed veil creating an effect of ripples and able to shade from the tropical sun.

VEIL CEILING

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TREE LIKE STEEL COLUMN

Other then that, I also noticed the huge tall steel column that look similir to a tree or a tree brunches that are supporting the roof ceiling facade.

I relise that by using this type of construction it can help to reduces the use of column and allow the space to have this huge open plan, limiting the obtraction of the use of more column

Even on how the steel facade support the old build ing , I feel this make it so unique and look like this building have never changes.

Walkways crisscross an atrium in the centre of the site to connect galleries on either side, while a basement con course unites the two buildings from below

I notice that the architect are trying to mix the archi tecture language by mixing both different timeline of architecture into one

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ANOTHER FLOOR FILIGREED VEIL

When I was looking around the ceil ing facade I relise that the roof have given an architecture language where by the roof to give rise to accessible analogies for the public, such as the fibres of natural weaves and designs; rattan for example, or perhaps ikat. It go back to the Malay Culture ikatan rotan for the design concept

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The perforations in the flat roof create a dappled light effect across the gallery’s floor while helping to screen the artworks and visitors from harsh sunlight.

Even on how the steel facade support the old building , I feel this make it so unique and look like this building have never changes.

Build In : 2007

Open In : 24 April 2010

Architecture

Type : Neofuturistic Architecture Material : Stainless Steel Size : 280 Metre Long Weights : 1700 tons cost : S$68 million

Helix Bridge is also known as Double Helix Bridge thanks to its unique shape. It incorporates the shape of a double-helix and symbolizes life and creation. The bridge is supported by stainless steel columns which are filled with concrete.One advantage of the design was that less steel was used compared with box girders or cable bridges. This saved millions of dollars in construction costs!

“ GEOMETRIC ARRANGEMENT

OF A DNA STRAND ”

Address: “ Marina Bay, Singapore”

Architects

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THE HELIX BRIDGE

“ To encourage civic participation in the design of the new bridge and develop a sense of ownership amongst the local community, a number of Singapore youths will be selected through an `Art Competition’ to work with recognised local artists to develop ideas for artworks and to integrate them into the design of the new bridge. These artworks will be based on the theme of “Aspirations for Life in Singapore”. See fact sheet at Annex 1 for details. ” says Philip Cox. “

Architect “ Philip cox “

THE HELIX BRIDGE

STRUCTURAL INNOVATION

CONCEPT

Inspired by the Geometric Helicoidial Arrangement of DNA. Two sets of spirals, one in another interconnected by tension rods spiralling in different directions. Masterpiece Architecture developed by ARUP’s own 3D software to explore possible solu tions. A method successfully linking two helices was found and developed in a virtual, digital environment.

MATERIAL SELECTION

Designers use of sustain able, low maintenance and aesthetic pleasing materials as Singapore has a hot, hu mid, industrial and coast al environment. The use of Duplex Stainless Steels are twice as strong as regular austenitic or ferritic stain less steels. Fabricated from approximately 650 tonnes of Duplex stainless steel and 1000 tonnes of Carbon steel. The use of sun shade are canopies of fritted glass and perforated steel mesh.

LIGHTNING

At nighttime, the bridge will be lighted by a series of light that highlight the double-helix structure, giving special visual experience to audiences. Also pairs of colored letter C, G and A, T will be lit up in red and green; which each letter represents 4 bases of DNA: Cytosine, Guanine, Adenine, and Thymine.

THE HELIX BRIDGE

THE HELIX BRIDGE

At around 10am in the morning, we arrvied at the helix brige . The first impression was hoe this brige look like a moving DNA and also look liek a moving vertical DNA floating on top of the sea.

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When walking on the bridge, bridge and took photos from the viewing platform along its length. The bridge is light and airy, no wobbling.

This complex process bridge eliminated many potrntially costly mis takes in the fabrication process make wonder I should take risk to suc cess.

V-SHAPED SUPPORT COLUMN

Walking under the bridge, It caught my eyes on the v-shaped support column that been used for the helix bridge.

This construction make the bridge look float ing and free due to the minimilistic column and supportive that been use to make sure the bridge is supported upright.

I think that caught my eyes the most is the steel joinery on how complicated is it to install and figure out. The joinery is using bolts and nut only!!!

I notice that the architect there are canopies within the inner spiral fabricated from fritted glass and perforated steel mesh and know that these are positioned to create shade for passers-through and the concept of illuminat ed letters c, g, a and t which represent the four bases of DNA (cytosine, guanine, ade nine, thymine).

I walked over the bridge and took photos from the viewing platform along its length. bling.I get a killer view of the Marina Bay Sand casino and adjacent area. The focal point of view here just amazing as I can get to view of the sea facing towards the two most famous building it the world which is the “MARINA BAY SANDS SINGAPORE and the “ ART SCIENCE MUSUEM”

EPILOGUE

So that is my travel story. I hope that to experience the tales of my travels again, it is certainly a great diary for me to keep all the memories alive!

In terms of the trip to Singapore, I felt that we could have stayed for longer in most of the destinations and potentially seen and done so much more. But the trip itinery only gave us a few nights to fit all in. My advice to the future me would be to research be fore the trip, to get the full experience of the place. Also I would like to extend my gratitude to my lecturer Mr James and my friends who made such great travelling companions. I will remember it forever.

Sincerely, Syafiq

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