M.Arch 2 AR5806/5807 AY 2021/22 ARCHITECTURE’S BACK LOOP APPLICATIONS OPEN! Borrowed from the ecologist C.S. Holling, the back loop is the stage in the Anthropocene cycle where hitherto established structures come apart, and individual entities or small groups interact across divides to create something fundamentally original. What undergirds back loop innovation is a spirit of…
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M.Arch Options Studio AR5801 AY 2021/22 Semester 1ARCHITECTURE AS MEDIA APPLICATIONS OPEN! Media, as defined by Hertz and Parikka (2015, 146), “is approached through the concrete artifacts, design solutions, and various technological layers that range from hardware to software processes, each of which in its own way participates in the circulation of time and memory.”…
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BYCHOO HUI ZHIJOSIAH TAN XIAN ZHE RETRACE allows users to integrate the past and present by providing a valuable immersive experience that can be passed on to future generation. It is inspired by the loss of heritage in Venice, the influx of modernization and urbanization has diluted the culture and heritage in Singapore. Fortunately, urban…
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BYCHUA MING HAO & ANG JEE KIAT VICTOR Since the dawn of the anthropocene, architecture has always been depicted as a struggle against the forces of gravity, from the likes of the classical Pantheon to modern megastructures like the Burj Al Arab. What is interesting for an architect then, would be to relook at the…
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BYMELISSA ONG KAI YIZHU SHENG BU WEI “Is Venice dying? Or is it already dead?” Venice, an Odyssey (Robbins, 2020) The answer to the question above determines how one should react to changes in Venice – changes that threaten Venice’s very existence. Either one position would also raise more questions which reveals different possible perspectives…
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Introducing the M.Arch 1 students for this AY20/21 Semester 1 Options Studio SPECTRES OF VENICE: INVISIBLE CITIES REVISITED– Hu Huiyao, Ong Xin Yi Elaina, Choo Hui Zhi, Josiah Tan Xian Zhe, Ang Jee Kiat Victor, Chua Ming Hao, Ong Kai Yi Melissa and Zhu Shengbuwei. The studio brief can be read here in our previous post. Studio activities included…
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BYELAINA ONG AND HU HUIYAO Inspired by the books the Invisible Cities and Venice, an Odyssey, Virtual Venice is a project meant to capture the essence of Venice in an immersive virtual experience. It encompasses a broad world that features a re-interpretation of Venice’s Piazza San Marco in a plethora of layers – aesthetic, cultural,…
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For this Immersive Environment Workshop, participants will be brought through several software, programs and examples that will serve as design tools for the studio semester. Over the two days, students were given a breakdown on Unity, Maya, Unreal Engine, Tiltbrush, Twinmotion, Adobe XD as well as basic introductions to using selected hardware – the VR…
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M.Arch 1 Options Studio AY20/21 Semester 1Spectres of Venice: Invisible Cities Revisited The historical city-state of Venice has long fuelled the imagination of travellers and writers, perhaps none more so than journalist-novelist Italo Calvino, whose seminal Invisible Cities (1972) vicariously recounted scores of its imaginative simulacra through a fictional Marco Polo. Already battling environmental perils, the pandemic lockdown in…
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BY MASITA BINTE MOHD YUSOF Advancement in technology is changing the way we work, live, and play. As technology becomes more portable and accessible to the mass, location dependency is no longer needed, giving rise to a new set of people who can work anywhere. As they seek constant changes in environment, airport – where…
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Millennial Nomad Space 