KALLANG SEGAR MASTERPLAN

from Delace Koh 2023 Portfolio

by delace

Process Drawings

Location: Kampong Bugis, Singapore

Year: 2021

Design Studio 2.2

Category: Masterplan

Our vision for our master plan: smart, sustainable and sentimental. Being smart With efﬁcient automation of power and remote healthcare services for future generations of ageing Singaporeans. Sustainable With energy-efﬁcient buildings with car-lite surface that preserves nature. And sentimental By creating new memorable experiences while celebrating historical cultures that bond communities.

Ja House

Location: 33 Jalan Isnin, Singapore

Year: 2021

Design Studio 2.2

Category: Terrace House (DFMA)

With a central void stretching from the ground to the roof, the corridor around the courtyard forms a circular circulation loop at every level of the house, allowing one to slow down and view the different ongoing daily activities, which in turn encourages more social interactions among the family members.

This feature of the house would serve as a reminder for the family to stay in the moment and appreciate the present, and the bustling conversations among family member & guests ﬁlls up the central void thus giving life to the house.

Peraniika

Location: Lombok, Indonesia

Year: 2021

Design Studio 2.1

Category: Community Centre

Organiika is located in Lombok Indonesia, and their mission is to educate local farmers on the organic farming methods that can help to support local communities and increase health quality. Some of the problems faced at the site are animal intrusion and lack of acceptance of the new farming method among the locals

Peraniika’s aim is to create a sustainable community centre that incorporates co-existence between human and nature, such that it aspires the visitors to adopt the organic farming method. The word “Peraniika”, is a combination of the word “permanent” and “organiika” as the knowledge gained from this centre will be permanent to the visitors.

As Organiika practices permaculture, the site is located right in between zone 3 and 4 where there is an overlap between human and nature activities. This then creates an opportunity for the community centre to accommodate nature instead of deterring them.

Wai Tower

Location: East Nusa tenggara province, Indonesia

Year: 2021

Design Studio 2.1

Category: Water Tower

East Nusa Tenggara province is one of many places that experience water shortage and low accessiblity to clean water. Many villagers, mainly women and children, have to travel several kilmeters to fetch water from terrain everyday.

Wai Tower is a water harvesting system, where rain, fog and dew condenses against the mesh and trickles down the funnel into a reservoir at the base of the structure.They are constructed using locally sourced material. The walls are made from panels of plaited bamboo, or wooden coconut leaf, a whole bamboo culms contitute the floor and the roof is made of dense thatch of alang-alang grass, tied with coconut leaf to battens made from saplings.

The design was inspired by the Traditional Sumbanese house. Essentially square shaped, internally there are four main pillars and each are symbolically carved differently to represent its own ancestral spirit. Built based on Marapu cosmology, it has three levels - the bottom is the place to keep livestocks, the main central level is for people and everyday activities, and the top level in the tall roof is where the Marapu reside.

Parasite

Location: Ngee Ann Polytechnic Blk 52

Year: 2020

Design Studio 1.2

Category: Pod House

The programme designed for this pod is Human Library, a place for people to come together and interact face to face. This serves as an opportunity for sociable people to constantly interact with one another despite being quarantined. The structure of the pod symbolises a tree. The journey from walking up the spiral staircase to look at the owners’ memories, to reach the top to talk to the person in present, and then leave through the bridge, gives this pod a sense of life and growth.