DS4 DESIGN JOURNAL

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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EXTENSIVE SITE ANALYSIS REPORT

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

1 3 2

1 PARKING LOTS 2 HANDICAP LOTS 3 LIFT 4 M&E

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1ST FLOOR PLAN 1

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4 6

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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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8 6

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10 4 3

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