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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Design Track"”.
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LOCATING SUBCULTURE : TRANSITIONAL SPACE FOR SUBCULTURE AND MARGINALIZED ARTISTS
… transitional status of the site, the space is designed to be temporary and flexible. It is meant to be dismountable, easily transported and erected in another industrial estate when the site is to be redeveloped.
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TRANSFORMING PUBLIC HOUSING SPACE FOR THE AGEING COMMUNITY
The thesis project is a critique on how the planning of spaces within public housing estates in Singapore will not adequately cater to the transforming community by 2030, specifically in terms of community aging as a whole. The current planning and layout of HDB precincts fulfils the functional …
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ARTISTS' SPACE : CITY STUDENT LIVING
My thesis is a re-interpretation of student living in a student accommodation through interactive spaces. The student accommodation is a place where interactions are really happening and it is part of the living routine. The thesis seeks to rethink the student living environment in a city context. …
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THE CRUCIBLE : PERFORMING ARTS FORUM FOR WILD RICE THEATRE
… is inserted, replacing the condominiums and designing more accessible zones to allow more users to the park on the hill. A more focused site is chosen upon the top of the hill, which is currently used as a service reservoir. A Victorian structure to contain the water is retained, which was …
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ELDERLY SPACE IN CHINATOWN : A SENSE OF BELONGING AND ATTACHMENT TO PLACE
… will have an effect on the way urban spaces are designed for the elderly, and also the understanding of how elderly people react to spaces in which they inhabit and interact. In ‘Prisoners of Space’, Graham Rowles writes about the elderly’s attachment to space as he explores the changing …
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RE-IMAGINING SPACES IN A PANDEMIC RESPONSE : THE SCHOOL INFIRMARY AND THE STADIUM CREMATORIUM
The thesis envisions a pandemic scenario for Singapore and proposes a systematic crisis preparedness and response plan for the population. National assessments estimate that 1.3 million people will be infected, amongst which 6,000 will die. The thesis focuses on these consequences as such: how can …
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BLOOMING EXPRESSWAY : ORCHID FARMING OVER THE BUKIT TIMAH EXPRESSWAY
My thesis rejects the polarized view of nature versus culture. Using Bruno Latour’s definition of nature as science, a collection of databases, apparatuses, and precedence, and that this assemblage of references in turn, forms what we know as nature, it is put forth that the long held dichotomous …
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THE NEW URBAN SOFTSCAPE : URBAN PARK AS WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
… should be used where it falls. The park is designed to harness both the hydrologic cycle and aesthetic qualities of water, celebrating the role of water in our urban landscapes and allow users to experience the qualities of water through touch, sight and sound. The collection and conveyance …
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SINGAPORE : THE AGROPOLIS [TOWARDS AN ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE]
‘… it was iron and corn, which first civilised men, and ruined humanity’ Discourse on Inequality, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The thesis explores the possibility of increasing land for food production by reducing the land for sustainable human inhabitations through re-planning of settlements pattern as …
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LESSONS FROM FILMIC SPACE
… this may inform how built architecture can designed to reflect various subjective narratives. This thesis speculates an architectural morphology that is dependent on the various onscreen characters within the films, dictated by filmic technics that structures cinema.
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TRANSITIONAL PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE : REDRESSING HOMELESSNESS IN SINGAPORE
Homelessness in Singapore Despite the official claims that there are no homeless, destitute or starving people (in Singapore), the condition of homelessness in singapore is by no means eradicated. Through the survey of housing typology in Singapore in relationship to their real estate values, …
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UNITING THE GOLDEN BORDERS
… among the least developed ASEAN countries. The design of trails and facilities contributed by each country will serve to promote social progress, cultural exchanges, as well as economic growth by developing infrastructure for cross border tourism between the three countries. Various trails will …
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SUSTAINABILITY IN HOUSING: COMPARATIVE STUDY ON STANDARD DWELLINGS AND CONSUMPTION OF DOMESTIC SPACES IN SINGAPORE AND JAKARTA
By looking at space as a finite resource, the dissertation seeks to study the sustainability of the current level of space consumption in Jakarta and Singapore – two cities at different economic stage of development, with problems of high population density. With global population projected to …
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EXPLORING TRANSFORMATION OF STREET LAYOUT IN THE OLD CITY OF BEIJING: CASE STUDIES OF QIANMEN AND XISI
Numerous historical buildings, streets and sites keep disappearing nowadays because the impact from rapid urban modernization development. Usually, the government and planner have ideas about how to build new urban landscape while own limited ways to preserve historic site. The old city of Beijing …
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CO-HESION! : REDISCOVERING THE NEW WAYS OF CONNECTING. LIVING AND SOCIALISING IN A (POST-)DIGITAL ERA.
With the rise of technological advancements and the internet over the past few decades, having a constant virtual connection has become a norm for society. As we progress towards utilising digital platforms such as social media as our primary mode of social interactions, it is necessary not to …