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Superdensity
The challenge in superdensity, however, lies in addressing the very nature that makes the
infrastructure sustainable – its compactness. Paradoxically, the success of the
Pinnacle@Duxton lies in the considerations to reduce its perceived density. While we want
speed, we also want slowness. While we consider compactness, we need to provide space,
privacy and isolation
Frank Gehry proposed one of the schemes for the Sentosa Integrated Resort, but it was
Michael Graves who won. Zaha Hadid completed her master plan for the large biomedical
campus of one-north only to add the Farrer Court condominium commission to the city-state.
Daniel Libeskind marked his attendance with six towers of high-end residences, Reflections at
Keppel Bay. And now BIG, the Danish flavour of the moment, is plugging hard in Singapore
with their motto “Yes is More”.
Celebrating positive strengths and assets that exists within the community
o As part of the Kapor CharParty by the Octopus Residency, we provided a platform for
the community of Kampong Kapor and Little India to appreciate the positive strengths
and assets that each individual can bring to their neighbourhood.
o Plotting out a neighbourhood’s existing assets – “My favourite place in the community
is…”
HappyStreetSG (2015)
Data Cities
Using Microsoft HoloLens goggles and Kinect software, American architect added holographic
model of London’s Tate Modern art gallery to his physical model of a scheme to restructure
an obsolete Packard car processing plant in Detroit. The system allows finger pointing and
clicking to drag and drop the holographic forms in the real space.
Autopilot systems also control the world’s first passenger drones, which herald the huge new
urban planning challenges of how to manage cities like vast airports.
o The Ehang 184, made in China, flies with eight propellers on its four arms and a host
of sensors streaming real-time data
o Airbus Pop Up – Air, Ground and Capsule modules. Fully electric, controllable via
smartphone application
People expect more and more from their physical environment because of their experiences
with advances in entertainment and media. The pressure for new types of physical experience
has pulled innovation in architecture in the direction of spectacles of motions. Motion is
currently being integrated into buildings at an unprecedented scale and scope. We are on the
cusp of amazing potentials to transcend the static structures – In the future, buildings will be
not only structural or even mechanised, they could become alive.
o The Shed, New York – Located beside the high line, the moving roof allows the building
to double in size, transforming the adjoining plaza space into and event space.
o University in Denmark – Features a climate-responsive kinetic façade in a triangular
form. Sensors monitor heat and light levels around the building, allowing the façade
panels to shift from open to half-open to fully open.
o Dynamic Tower – Dubai Hotel
Remember the old saying “Rome wasn’t build in a day”? Well, with CityEngine, our cities could
virtually be completed in a few hours.
The Future Cities Laboratory at ETH-Zurich has been testing various advanced capabilities
construction robots and drones: To print brick walls in complex curves, sculpt polymer models
of skyscrapers, lay bricks by remote controlled quadcopters, and wood framing assembly too.
In Dhaka, Bangladesh, WOHA is building a nine-storey university above a polluted swamp,
including a bio-retention system of landscaped ponds to clean the water through natural
filtration.
More than 3.5b people travel in aeroplanes annually. The price of pre-booking travel to space
has shrivelled from US$35 million to US$ 200,000, and the first space hotels are booking
guests for 2022. How do these aerial and astrospatial accelerations relate to grounded
buildings and cities? They herald more fluid concepts of place-making – fusing local and global
characteristics, and habitats and vehicles not always tethered to terrains.
One by-product of rising sea levels is an increasingly evident impulse to design houses, hotels
and even cities that float above and below the waves.
o The Floating Seahorse – a floating condominium unit with an underwater bedroom
and bathroom level off Dubai.
Revitalising dead zones of a city:
o New York’s The High Line – elevated railway
o Seoullo 7017 – motorway flyover, cluster of plants on the flyover are native to Korea
and were designed to give different impressions and perfumes, and react to the
season.
IBM: Smarter Planet Campaign in 2008 and Smarter Cities Programme in 2009, one of its
brochures challenged public sector officials, “as a city leader, how will you create opportunity
in order to be competitive on a global scale?”
Cisco: Smart+Connected Communities and ‘Lighthouse Cities’
Philips: Global “Smart Lighting” campaign
Art communicates impressions about realities. Does it have a serious place in today’s science
schema to simulate the Earth’s complex systems? Yes, because art is the only way to visualise
scientific knowledge. It offers many means to represent different understandings of our world.
The Spontaneous City is a marketplace, where supply and demand sculpts urban form. The
city develops at various places, in all kinds of directions. What’s more, the Spontaneous City
is occupied by producers and limitless future projections.
The Spontaneous City is indeed shaped by its occupants, in a never-ending process of
transformation, growth and adaptation. They forge a path between individual choice and
common interest.
These emerging signs of temporary urbanism are novel. Hitherto, both theory and practice in
urban planning and design have been overwhelmingly concerned with permanence. This
raises some interesting questions. Given the overwhelming evidence that cities are a complex
overlay of buildings and activities that are, in one way or another, temporary, why have
urbanists been so focused on permanence?
Temporary uses are flourishing both in the in-between spaces were there is flexibility in the
rigours of the property market, and in areas where multi-use is feasible. Some uses are
planned and formal; some are informal, accidental, spontaneous or even illegal. Given this
wide range of characteristics, temporary activities need to be defined with care.