Dezeen school shows: A project using generative AI to enhance theatrical performance is included in Dezeen’s latest school show by students from the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Also featured are the design of a chair aimed at facilitating communal dining among Singaporeans, and the design of a floating structure for growing crops on the Mekong River in Cambodia.
institution: Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
course: Master of Architecture – Pillars of Architecture and Sustainable Design
Teacher: Peter Ortner, Daniel Whittaker, Carlos Banyon, Eva Castro, Immanuel Ko, Jason Lim, Bidge Tanser, Christine Yogiman, Jen Kai
School statement:
“From Jakarta to Kuala Lumpur, Singapore to Hai Phong, these thesis projects represent the pinnacle of architecture and sustainable design education at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
“Representative of rigorous research conducted in the field and in the field (or mangrove wetlands), these students will explore how future architecture, urban design, and landscape ecology will ensure safety. We embarked on an architectural journey that led us to consider how we could serve new communities focused on bio- and socio-centric architectural cores.
“These students envisioned new architecture that improves the lives of Cambodian fishermen, young and aging families coming of age in Singapore, and responsible energy harvesting in the South China Sea.
“The award-winning projects selected by these jurors represent the best of new architectural ideas and demonstrate the outstanding design talent of our students, who will graduate in December 2023.
“SUTD Master of Architecture graduate students are pioneers in creating a better world through design.”
Potential for coastal reform in Jakarta, Indonesia: Muara Angke 2100 Written by Livia Annabelle Shimano
“Mr. Shimano’s thesis aims to strengthen North Jakarta’s resilience to rising water levels through ‘natural’ coastal protection methods, while adding value to North Jakarta City and its constituent areas.
“The question was posed: ‘What new durable infrastructure can we design to create a balance between city and nature?’
“Mr. Shimano has created a new solution that focuses on Jakartan’s port area called Muara Angkhe and implements the dike ring in multiple stages as part of the archipelago strategy.
“Shimano’s Island Channel Solution turns a water threat into an opportunity for coexistence by adding huge plantations of mangroves as new brackish water farms to help absorb inflows as flood conditions rise. Ta.”
student: Livia Annabelle Shimano
Teacher: Peter Ortner and Carlos Banyon
award: Master of Architecture Thesis Award – Sustainable Environment
Virtual Net Zero: Participatory Design in the Redevelopment of Singapore’s Paya Lebar Air Base Written by Ryan Chua Jie Jian
“Jian’s paper delves into the following questions: Participatory design (involving communities) to create new digital and virtual technology tools to simulate various subsistence energy usage goals. How can we use our methods to achieve a true net-zero plan?”
“This complex digital framework has achieved two overarching goals: first, to help the public better understand the real challenges of planning for net-zero energy use districts;
“Second, it will enable architects and urban planners to better understand public perceptions of what constitutes a ‘net-zero city’ and discover new design opportunities tailored to the individual needs of users. It’s what you do.”
student: Ryan Chua Jie Jiang
Teacher: Peter Ortner and Carlos Banyon
award: Master of Architecture Thesis Award – Sustainable Environment
The Theater Machine by So Man Lin
“Soman Lin’s paper harnesses the potential of generative AI to orchestrate the spatial storytelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet’s poignant ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy.
“The aim is to integrate the interpretive performance of the actors with a space that acts as a co-narrator, resulting in an audiovisual representation of the soliloquy.
“Lin’s orchestration of digital space creates a performance that reveals the relationship between actors and space.
“The methodological use of generative AI disrupts traditional live production paradigms that challenge the linear trajectory inherent in traditional theatrical experiences.
“This paper reevaluates storytelling and the relational dynamics of actors and spaces.”
student: Soman Lin
Teacher: Immanuel Coe
award: Architecture Master’s Thesis Award – Design Computation and Architecture Master’s Thesis Award – Future Manufacturing
Hawker Centers in Singapore: Purposeful and community residences for the elderly by Mark Tai Hao Yang
“Yang investigates the reinvention of the family table, recontextualizing the communal eating culture of contemporary hawker centers in Singapore.
“His paper asks how the surgical insertion of a chair can act as a catalyst to enable older adults to exercise their agency and connect with others in their communities.
“The addition of architectural interventions to Mr. Yang’s newly designed wooden chairs and hand-painted two-dimensional elements created by community members will form a powerful new relationship in the hawker centre.
“It becomes a place-making tool, maintains familiarity and habitual usage, and continues to attract Singaporeans from all walks of life to dine together.”
student: Mark Tai Hao Yang
Teacher: Jason Lim, Bidge Tanser, Christine Yogierman, Jen Kai
award: Master of Architecture Thesis Award – Social Innovation
Commons Cooperatives: Sustaining the Federation in Tonle Sap, Cambodia by Ian Chun Engi
“Enzi’s paper proposes the need for community activities that can promote rural food production in the floodplains of the Mekong River Basin.
“His vibrant architectural solutions move the three villages towards a responsible socio-environmental paradigm that emphasizes symbiotic cooperation between humanity and nature, enabling increased ecological productivity and restoration of local livelihoods. Masu.
“Enzhi focused on three villages located in the south of Siem Reap province: Chonknias, Kampong Phluk and Kampong Kreang.
“His thesis investigates new floating architectural village solutions that exist within the tidal context of Tonle Sap Lake and its floodplain.”
student: Ian Chong Enji
Teacher: daniel whitaker
award: Awards: Master of Architecture Thesis Award – Praxis Innovation, Master of Architecture Thesis Award – Best Representative Award and Daniel Libeskind Award
Revitalization and reinvigoration of Singapore’s neglected Strata Mall by Janice Yong Chee Hui
“Mr Hui investigated Strata Mall, a dilapidated 1970s and 1980s high-rise building and executive-owned shopping mall in Singapore.
“Her thesis explores a range of adaptive reuse options to breathe new life into buildings and help them remain relevant to their neighboring communities well into the 21st century, renovating often forgotten indoor spaces. The aim was to revitalize the space.
“Mr Hui’s paper focused on the Upper Serangoon Shopping Center, which has become less relevant as the community ages and fewer young families make use of the internal atrium spaces.
“Mr Hui identified five criteria as determining the dynamic and promising redesign of Upper Serangoon: connectivity, competitiveness, visibility, trending style/management and adaptability to change. ”
student: Janice Yong Chi Hui
Teacher: Peter Ortner and Carlos Banyon
award: Honorary Project Award
Normalizing change: (in)Complete City – (re)constructing Singapore by Kuan Yi Heng
“Mr. Heng analyzes the concept of the Japanese Metabolist City of the 1960s and 1970s, showing that the function and form of buildings transform and change over time to adapt to changing socio-economic demands. We have put together a paper project proposing a construction system that will make this possible.
“Heng has designed a robust construction system that facilitates the assembly and disassembly of building components and introduces sustainability cycles into the construction industry in a multi-layered manner.
“This project defines successful modular building design that considers not only disassembly and reuse, but also manufacturing, shipping, assembly, and use.”
student: Quan Yi Heng
Teacher: Peter Ortner and Carlos Banyon
award: Honorary Project Award
Urban Sports Village Aiming for an active lifestyle!Written by Rachel Chia Jiawen
“Jiawen has extensively researched modern urban health problems caused by sedentary lifestyles.
“Based on a detailed analysis of modern transportation systems, Jiawen designed a new urban mobility framework with hubs that accommodate the different rhythms of individuals, creating an environment that supports both fast and slow activities. I created this.
“These hubs will also act as social interaction areas where people can choose to participate in sports or access relaxing green spaces, supporting different speeds of activity for different age demographics. Masu.
“The ‘Living Dome’ and ‘Sports Dome’ with oval eyeballs welcome filtered natural light into the activity arena, which is maintained by natural ventilation.”
student: Rachel Chia Jiawen
Teacher: Peter Ortner and Carlos Banyon
award: Honorary Project Award
Cryptosphere: A new energy currency for sustainable consumption in Vietnam, by Valent Tan Hua Leng
“Len’s paper examines the energy challenge of a complex system of global energy demands amidst continued climate change in developing countries.
“His paper proposes a coastal settlement in the South China Sea near Hai Phong, Vietnam, where a new automated energy generation future is envisioned in 2050.
“Ren’s paper challenges the current economic energy production model by exploring new ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs) that regulate energy consumption by producers and consumers and turn energy into a new currency. are doing.
“This energy is generated in three technological ways: ocean waves, architecturally integrated vertical iron oxide batteries, and gaseous buoyancy balloons all working together generatively.”
student: Valent Tan Weiren
Teacher: Eva Castro
award: Master of Architecture Thesis Award – Research Innovation and DP Architects Design Excellence Award
Heteritopolis: A Critique of the Preservation of Chinatown Heritage in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Written by Tan Eng Kang
“Mr. Kang ventures deep into Kuala Lumpur’s dense and historic Chinatown to dissect the long-standing tradition of preserving historic buildings.
“His thesis project criticized the traditional isolated approach to preserving individual old storehouses.
“Mr. Kang has created a new architectural structure format that introduces a new consistent approach to vertical Chinatown on a tiered platform.
“Khan has reimagined cooperative housing for both residents and temporary tourists, with this new housing focus as an integrated design strategy that will ensure Kuala Lumpur’s future urban sustainability.” Introduced.
“This is something he designed to ensure the permanence of an evolving heritage for past, present and future generations to live in.”
student: Tan Eng Can
Teacher: daniel whitaker
award: Honorary Project Award
Partnership details
The Schools Show is a partnership between Dezeen and Singapore University of Technology and Design. Learn more about Dezeen partnership content.