DS4 DESIGN JOURNAL
AN INTEGRATION OF ROM AND SOCIAL HUB
JOHNATHAN NA
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CONTENTS I. PROJECT OVERVIEW -Design pedagogy and brief -Abstract -Site analysis II. PROJECT DEVELOPMENT INTERIM -Design statement -Design inspiration -Design Concept -Floorplans -Renders III. PROJECT DEVELOPMENT FINAL -Design statement -Design Inspiration -Design Concept -Concept diagrams -Write up -Floorplans, Section, Elevations -Renders
PROJECT OVERVIEW
DESIGN PEDAGOGY AND BRIEF An institutional building design is challenged to transcend from its utilitarian spaces and rituals into assemblies for shared experiences of a community that can encapsulate the imaginative and unexpected spatial and experiential forms. The final project provides the opportunity to explore architectural spaces and experience(s) instilled in the societal life. Specifically, under the initiatives from Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF), the proposal for the Life Experience# Hub +Hybrid aims to inspire inclusive and active social engagement and participation. This new placemaking is for partaking, identifying, learning, and creating social space typologies that offers “innovative, socially conscious, sustainable and spatial design solutions.” The architectural design must take into consideration of the building’s programmes, the building’s formal expression and spaces that involve and revolve the social life of a community
ABSTRACT The Life Experience Hub +Hybrid is the host to a diversiďŹ ed range of social events, workshops, programs, demonstrations and essentials to nurture a sharing and caring culture. A social-driven centre that reects a collegial ethos based on an understanding of the spatial and experiential connections by Planting Social Sanity – a centre for planting Social Engagement & Empowering Development (SEED) for the community to correspond with the architecture in the context of contemporary Singapore. The challenge is to re-imagine an all-embracing and empowering composition of human experiences with the site of Life Experience Hub +Hybrid.
SITE ANALYSIS
LOCATION PLAN
SITE ANALYSIS
LOCATIONS OF MUSEUMS AND CIVIC AMENITIES
SITE CONTEXT
LOCATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES
SITE ANALYSIS
SITE PLAN
SITE ANALYSIS
SITE SECTIONS SITE
SITE ANALYSIS
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PROJECT DEVELOPMENT INTERIM
INTERIM
INTERIM
CULTIVATING SOCIAL INTERACTION THROUGH THE UTILIZATION OF FUNCTION SPACES
DESIGN STATEMENT
INTERIM
SPATIAL - PERFORMANCE AND SHOWCASE SPACES
DESIGN INSPIRATION
INTERIM
VISUAL - CONTEMPORARY
DESIGN INSPIRATION
INTERIM
ATTRACTION OF FUNCTIONAL SPACES TO ENCOURAGE UTILISATION OF SAID SPACES
DESIGN CONCEPT
INTERIM
INCREASING VISUAL ATTRACTIVITY OF EACH SPACES
DESIGN CONCEPT
INTERIM
BASEMENT PLAN
INTERIM
1ST FLOOR PLAN
INTERIM
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
INTERIM
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
INTERIM
ROOF PLAN
INTERIM
RENDERS
INTERIM
RENDERS
INTERIM
RENDERS
INTERIM
RENDERS
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT FINAL
FINAL
FINAL
SOCIAL HARMONY THROUGH COLLABORATIVE, DYNAMIC AND OPEN SPACES BY HAVING SPACES WHICH ARE COLLABORATIVE AND DYNAMIC, INTERACTION AND USAGE OF ACTIVATED SPACES ARE ENCOURAGED
DESIGN STATEMENT
FINAL
COLLABORATIVE SPACES
SPACES THAT SPARK DIALOGUE AND INTERACTION LIBRARY WORKSHOP GALLERY CONFERENCE EXHIBITION
DESIGN STATEMENT
FINAL
DYNAMIC SPACES
PRACTICAL SPACES WHERE PEOPLE GRAVITATE TO CIRCULATION SEATING AREA SHADING
DESIGN STATEMENT
DESIGN INSPIRATION
MUSEUMS, GALLEY AND EXHIBITS
OUR SITE BOASTS A PROMINENT ART CULTURE WITH MANY MUSEUMS AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES SPECIALIZING IN THE ARTS
DESIGN INSPIRATION
MUSEUMS, GALLEY AND EXHIBITS
ARE AGENTS OF CHANGE, DRIVERS OF CULTURE AND BUILDERS OF COMMUNITY IN OUR SOCIETY PLACES OF CASUAL ACTIVITY PLACES WHERE DIVERSE GROUPS ARE ENGAGED PLACES THAT CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMMUNITIES TO ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES
DESIGN CONCEPT
TO ACCENTUATE SPACES THROUGH THE DESIGN LANGUAGE OF SHOWCASING
DESIGN CONCEPT
SPACES ARE ACCENTUATED INCREASING VISUAL CONNECTIVITY CREATING VISUAL INTEREST INCREASING CIRCULATION
CONCEPT DIAGRAMS
CONCEPT DIAGRAMS
WRITE UP MY DESIGN AIMS TO ACHIEVE SOCIAL HARMONY THROUGH THE FUNCTIONAL USAGE OF COLLABORATIVE, OPEN AND DYNAMIC SPACES. COLLABORATIVE SPACES SUCH AS GALLERIES, WORKSHOPS AND CONVENTION SPACES NOT ONLY SPARK DIALOGUE AND INTERACTION BETWEEN PEOPLE BUT ALSO ENCOURAGES ACTIVE USE OF SAID SPACES. DYNAMIC AND PRACTICAL SPACES SUCH AS SEATINGS, SHADING OR CIRCULATION ARE SPACES WHERE PEOPLE NATURALLY GRAVITATE TO. THIS CREATES OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY THROUGH EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS.
AS THERE IS A PROMINENT ART CULTURE INSTILLED WITHIN OUR SITE. I HAVE DECIDED TO TAKE INSPIRATIONS FROM GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS. MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES ARE PLACES WHERE THERE IS ENGAGEMENT OF DIVERSE GROUPS. THEY ARE ALSO PLACES OF CASUAL ACTIVITY AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, IT PROVIDES VARIOUS OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY THROUGH EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS. HENCE, I ACCENTUATED VARIOUS SPACES THROUGH THE DESIGN LANGUAGE OF SHOWCASING AND FRAMING. THE SPACES ENGAGES PEOPLE VISUALLY FIRST IN ORDER TO CATCH THEIR ATTENTION AND CURIOSITY. SPACES ARE HIGHLIGHTED BY INCREASING CONNECTIVITY, CREATING VISUAL INTEREST AND INCREASING VISUAL CONNECTIVITY
WRITE UP
BASEMENT PLAN
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1 PARKING LOTS 2 HANDICAP LOTS 3 LIFT 4 M&E
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1ST FLOOR PLAN 1
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1 CHILDCARE 2 LIBRARY 3 RESOURCE CENTRE 4 CAFE
5 VERIFICATION WAITING 6 VERIFICATION 7 MEETING ROOM 8 STORAGE
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9 RECEPTION 10 GALLERY 11 AMPHITHEATRE
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2ND FLOOR PLAN 5
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1 CLASSROOM 2 LIBRARY 3 WORKSHOP 4 SEATING/CIRCULATION
5 GALLERY WALK 6 SOCIAL WORKSHOP 7 PRAYER ROOM 8 OFFICE
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9 SOLEMNISATION ROOMS 10 SOLEMNISATION WAITING
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3RD FLOOR PLAN 4 1
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1 MEETING ROOM 2 LIBRARY 3 CONFERENCE HALL 4 CONFERENCE ROOM
5 OFFICE
ROOF PLAN
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
LATITUDINAL SECTION
WEST ELEVATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
NORTH ELEVATION
SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
RENDERS CENTRAL PROMENADE OVERLOOKED BY SURROUNDING ACTIVITIES
RENDERS DYNAMIC SPACE ACTING AS A TEMPORARY WORKSHOP AND SOCIAL SPACE ALONG GALLERY WALK
RENDERS VIEW OF LIBRARY SHOWING LAYERING OF SPACES TO CREATE VISUAL INTEREST
RENDERS WORKSHOP SPACE ENABLES FOR ACTIVITIES INSIDE TO BE EXHIBITED TO THE PUBLIC
RENDERS LIBRARY GLAZING FRAMING THE CITY VIEW, GALLERY SPACE AND EXHIBITION SPACE
RENDERS WOODEN LOUVRES THROUGHOUT DESIGN TO LIMIT AND DIRECT VIEWS
RENDERS
RENDERS
MAIN CIRCULATION CREATING A PHYSICAL AND VISUAL CONNECTION BETWEEN FORT CANNING AND THE CITY