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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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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BYAHMAD NAZARUDDIN B ABDUL RAHIMMARCUS SIM BEI YI Due to their mobility and transience, digital nomads find maintaining intimate relationships with both friends and lovers alike challenging, often ending in loneliness. To mediate this, Palzone aims to use technology to redefine intimacy for digital nomads, through augmenting time and space. This is attempted through diminishing…
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BYTAN ZIWEITHOMAS POH JIA MING Resonance was conceived with the need for a therapeutic realm to seek refuge from the overwhelming stresses and connectivity of our tech driven society. Resonance is a virtual reality landscape realm that runs on ubiquitous hardware of everyday users such as smartphones. The landscape realm is pieced together by the…
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M.Arch 1 Options Studio AY 2019/20 Semester 1WE ARE MILLENNIALS, MOBILISED … imagine our digital connectedness in terms of bodies extending across space, but we might also suggest that the spaces between us have collapsed, that, in virtual terms, we’re crawling all over one another. Laurence Scott, The Four-Dimensional Human (2015) This mission, should you…
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Millennial Nomad Space 