Urban photography Thomas Birke

URBAN LIVING - STEP 1

Working on the scales of the city, the building and the individual unit the studio aims to understand the complex
nature of urban contexts as places for habitation and the mutual potentials evolving between them. The studio will
develop innovative urban housing concepts for sustainable high-dense living and focus on themes like density, diversity and connectivity. The integration of building systems like load-bearing structure, services and building envelope
will be treated as constitutive parts of design process.
Each studio section will work on a significantly different, but typically Singaporean urban setting.
SITES

Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5

(Oliver Heckmann):
(Yvonne Tan):
(Calvin Chua):
(Ermanno Cirillo):
(Pauline Ang):

Bukit Batok MRT

Yishun MRT
Farrer Park MRT
Kallang MRT
Redhill MRT

SITE MODEL ( PHYSICAL & CAD)

Each section has to produce a site model in 1:500 and a detailed 3-D Cad model for its site by Mon 10 October based on information to be gathered on onemap.sg , URA and by site visits! Extent of the model will be discussed
with the instructors of the sections - it will be about 1 x 2 m large and has to be moveable.

Singapore University of Technology and Design

Architecture and Sustainable Design
Architecture Core Studio 3/20.103/Autumn 2016

Pauline Ang/Calvin Chua/Ermanno Cirillo/

Oliver Heckmann, Course Lead/Yvonne Tan

DETAILED PROGRAM AND REQUIREMENTS

1. The project needs to address its specific location and urban landscape around.
2. The project needs to plug into the existing connections and should allow public passage accross the site.
3. Working on the issues of density, diversity and connectivity strategies and programs have to be developed that
seek potential connections with the territory. The following numbers have to be used as benchmarks for the program: 70% residential, 15% commercial, 15% communal.
4. The total floor area of the project should not exceed a Gross Floor Area of approx. 24.000 sqm as a benchmark.
The program should accommodate approx. 120 apartment units with different types, with other parts depending
on individual programs.
INFORMAL PIN on 10 October - REQUIREMENTS

Urban Studies
Analyze the urban context, its typologies and programs with figure-ground plans and other drawings / diagrams.
The focus is on investigating potential connections between the to-be-designed building and its urban context;
how the city could charge the project and how the project the city.
Concept for high-density habitation
Based on strategies for DENSITY (facing the challenges of increasing population in Singapore), DIVERSITY (of
apartment types and other programs within the design) and CONNECTIVITY (within the building and between
building and context), and on the results of the urban mapping concept for high-density habitation are to be
presented.
Urban Massing Studies (Models & Drawings Scale 1:500)
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Week 3
Wednesday, 28 Sep
Thursday, 29 Sep

Hand-out of new brief URBAN LIVING

Site-visits with instructors, individual studies

Week 4
Monday, 3 Oct
Wednesday, 5 Oct

Thursday, 6 Oct

Deskcrits: 1st sketches & studies: Mapping, Concepts

Lecture Types
Workshop (TA Alexandria) Generating vector drawings from online map, with topography
Deskcrits

Week 5
Monday, 10 Oct

Wednesday, 12 Oct

Thursday, 13 Oct

Pin-up of Site Studies & Concept for Urban Habitation

Submission of Context model (Physical & 3-D)
Lecture Structure & other Spatial Concepts
Workshop Residential Case Studies
Deskcrits , Case Study presentation in sections

Week 6
Monday, 17 Oct
Wednesday, 19 Oct
Thursday, 20 Oct

Deskcrits
NO LECTURE / STUDIO TIME
INTERMEDIARY PRESENTATION
- Final Concept
- Urban Masssing to be presented within site model
- Programs and Circulation
- Apartment types - Models and Drawings Scale 1:500/1:200