Matthew Goh XinZhi
portfolio of selected works 2019-2023
Curriculum Vitae
academia
2019-Ongoing: Bachelors of Arts in Architecture (Honors ) National University of Singapore
Current CAP: 4.5/5 , First Class Honors
2022: Exchange Semester M.Arch 1 Czech Technical University
Winy Maas Studio, The W?y Factory: Bioworld
2016-2017: GCE A’Levels Anderson Junior College
2012-2015: GCE O’Levels School of Science and Technology
awards and competitions
2022: Scanteak Headquarters Competition 1st Runner-Up
2021-2022: Dean’s List National University of Singapore Department of Architecture
2021: Charmingly Changi URA Ideas Competition Open Category Winner
2021: Char Yong Architectural Competition under Hyphen Architects
2020: International Building Design Competition (IBDC) Organised by URA Finalist
2018: Master Trainer Coin Awarded by the SAF (Military) for outstanding performance during overseas exercise.
2018: HiStory MyStory Film Competition 1st Runner-Up
experience
2023-Ongoing: Shade Institute
Fellow
Involved in public interest design projects
Design interventions for communities in Honolulu
2023-Ongoing: Dean Sakamoto Architects
Architecture Intern
Technical drawings for public housing project Designed community centers
2022: National University of Singapore Teaching Assistant (DTK1234A)
Designed the module curriculum Developed module content and lecture materials
2021-2022: The Architecture Society President
Management of the society activities
Pioneered TAS pop-up market Renewed student-initiative system
2021-2022: National University of Singapore Teaching Assistant (AR1101 & AR1102)
Provide support for Design Studio 1&2 Held lectures on architectural analysis Held workshops on software
2021: Whampoa Archives
Digitisation Assistant
Created 3D-printable models of objects pertaining to research
2020-2021: The Architecture Society
Exhibition Director
Conceived and curated ArchiVal exhibition
Involved in exhibition design, procurement and programme line up
2020-2021: Hyphen Architects
Architecture Intern
Architectural Competition
Landscape Planning
3D Concept Modeling
2019-2020: DP Architects
Architecture Intern
Design Development and BIM Modeling for Singapore Aviation Academy
Renders and Construction Drawings for HomeTeamNS Khatib
exhibitions / events
2023: An Ode to Tropics
Lecture at Czech Technical University
Lecture on tropical architecture at Zkusenosti school event
2022: N*thing is Possible
Joint Research Team Lead
Lead NUS team to provide research in conjuction with EcoMantra for OMA, exhibited at the National Design Center
2021-2022: ArchiVal 2022
Director Mentor
Advising development of exhibition
Selected Work Exhibit
DefuLand : Celebrating the Recycling Event
2022: NUS Open House 2022
Curator
Selected works for publication and model display
Selected Work Exhibit
DefuLand : Celebrating the Recycling Event
2022: Liminal Matters
Keynote Speaker
“Mid-Tenant Architecture”
Selected Work Exhibit
Una Burke’s Playground : Model
Infinite City - DefuLand : Model
2020-2021: ArchiVal 2021
Exhibition Director
Conceived and curated ArchiVal exhibition
Selected Work Exhibit
Una Burke’s Playground
2020-2021: ArchiVal 2020
Selected Work Exhibit
The Beauty of Speech
proficiencies
Rhino Grasshopper
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Indesign
Adobe Premier Pro
Autocad
Sketchup
Enscape
Twinmotion
ArchiCad
M. Office
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selected works
1| DefuLand
Celebrating the Recycling Event
2| Burke’s Playground
Translating of the Tectonics of Fashion
3| The “Green” Rail Corridor
Re-examining Green Spaces in Singapore
4| Exhibition: ArchiVal
The Hybridisation of the Digital and Physical
5 | N*thing is Possible
Towards a Zero-Waste Future - Joint Research Collaboration with OMA
6 | Ascending to the Sky
Old Changi Hospital Ideas Competition
DefuLand
Celebrating the Recycling Event
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Defu Industrial Estate Individual Academic Work Year 3, Design 5
August - November 2021
Professor Thomas Kong
DEFULAND was conceived as a radical solution to a rapidly changing waste landscape. Moving towards a digital future the issue of e-waste and other integrated products continues to grow exponentially. These integrated systems require a change in infrastructure surrounding its recycling, a more dispersed smaller-scale operation. Paired with the need to adapt, a weak architecture that is an antithesis of this new waste, which is less composite, more enzymatic, traversable, and fluid. A completely new typology to recycling whom’s key agency is the general public. A non-sequential theme park that celebrates the recycling event as spectacle. Bring the new agency on a didactic journey through an amalgamation of bottom-up infrastructure through the tectonics of scaffold.
Following the footsteps of the recycling veterans, the public traverses the site as Karang Guni spurred on to spectate, participate and finally create. SPECTATE : to observe and marvel at, a cursory relationship. PARTCIPATE : to take part and journey with, palpable understanding. CREATE : the last act, the agent becomes the enterprise, achieving the recycling apex.
DefuLand : Celebrating the Recycling Event | 5 ^ A Day in DefuLand
^ Site Analysis
ASSEMBLAGE | KARANG GUNI | RECYCLING
Looking towards assemblage to inform a new understanding of the site. Could this possibly inform a way of looking at the site differently from the empirical means of analysis?
6 | DefuLand : Celebrating the Recycling Event 34. MY PLANT DISPLAY An elevated platform made of pallets, these plants avoid the flood waters during flash rains. Pallet Vegetation semipermanent beautification informal 24.
A day of hard work after salvaging reusable materials, hopefully I can get a good amount of money for this Carboards Plastic Bag semipermanent livelihood informal semipermanent functionality informal An organised stacked of generators aapparent from the pedestrain view 22. MOUNTAIN OF GENERATORS Steel I Beam Metal Sheets 15. TREE OR GATE? Foilage grows over the exisitng gate forms a small scaled shelter for respite Zinc Sheet permanent respite informal 38. THE WORSHIP CORNER semipermanent faith informal Zinc Sheet Metal Sheet A collection of fortune gods, may this bring good luck and business to all of Defu. 36.
Tables and chairs over the pavement, great for an informal chat and drinks semipermanent social informal 18. CANVAS ROOF EXTENSION To adapt to changing needs, the factory decided to add and construct a roof, increasing the amount of shaded space needed Zinc Sheet Steel I Beam permanent functional 26. THE NURSURY Eh see, still got space to hang my plants. Come look! Vegetation semipermanent customisation informal
‘GARANGGG GUNIIII’
FRONTYARD ON THE STREAT
Interim 1 > A High Tech Favela?
A Turn to Spectacle
Can the recycling experience be reimagined as a spectacle?
DefuLand : Celebrating the Recycling Event | 7 ^
^ A Turn to Spectacle
Can the recycling experience be reimagined as a spectacle?
< Diagram of Process
From centralised systems towards decentralised spectatorship.
< Collection of Decentralised Spaces Event spaces spread accross the sprawl of the Defu Industrial Estate.
8 | DefuLand : Celebrating the Recycling Event
A play on the traditional theme park brochure, an alternate vision of an event led, non-hierarchal themepark
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A comprehensive but not definitive guide on how to build a recycling theme park
DefuLand : Celebrating the Recycling Event | 9
DEFULAND Manual
< DEFULAND Brochure
< DEFULAND Model
An infinite model, an ode to Andrea Branzi’s No-Stop City
Burke’s Playground
Translating of the Tectonics of Fashion
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Orchard Road
Individual Academic Work
Year 2, Design 3
August - November 2020
Ar. Chaw Chih Wen
Burke, a humble fashion designer experiments with sculptural fashion pieces through the medium of leather strips, weaving them together through rivet joineries. By juxtaposing this against Burke’s suburban lifestyle placed in a new urban setting, an architecture responsive to technique and site is formulated. Strips that emulate the schema manipulated in response to the structure, akin to the leather strips response to rivets. Movement, function all enveloped by the same set of techniques used in her pieces.
The studio methodology was to first encounter the materials and form making techniques. The manipulation of the leather strips was uncovered through careful analysis of each selection of clothing sets . Taking these discoveries and then translating them into an almost form fitting technique over the rituals that were fictionally proposed. Through a process of structural feasibility tests, implementing functional understanding of a home and a working studio, a building was proposed.
Heavily lending to the techniques used in the rivets and strips to form a structural system. The resulting proposal is an ode to technique and a system for the ritual to be captured in form.
^ Probe 1: Body In Space
Identifying the fashions relationship with the body, observing the hidden “lines” and the navigation of the piece around the body.
^ Probe 2: Assemblage and Thresholds
Taking a closer look into the lines identified. Observing where the pieces terminate and its proximity to the body in that moment.
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12 | Burke’s Playground : Translating of the Tectonics of Fashion
^ Thinking Through Making Replicating Una Burke’s Pieces
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< Ritual Drawing Movement in Una Burke’s home
Imagining the Ritual > Movement in Una Burke’s home
^ Form Experiments Generated from imposing rituals onto the site
14 | Burke’s Playground : Translating of the Tectonics of Fashion
Burke’s Playground : Translating of the Tectonics of Fashion | 15 ^ Section Una Burke’s Residence
Video Link: https://youtu.be/EOndtSLQrBs
The “Green” Rail Corridor
Re-examining Green Spaces in Singapore
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Green Rail Corridor, Singapore
Group Academic Project
Year 3, Semester 1
Team Member
May - July 2021
Ar. Tham Wai Hon
The Green Rail Corridor (GRC), which was formerly the Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) Railway, runs from Woodlands in the north to Tanjong Pagar in the south of Singapore. When the stretch of land was abruptly returned by Malaysia to Singapore there were no plans on the redevelopment of the land. After multiple rounds of ideation between the government statuary boards, activist conservation groups and the public, the long and narrow piece of land is conserved as a nature thoroughfare for public use.
The project explores the landscape firstly through film, reexamining the treatment of this unique urban plan. Debating its status as “nature” and engages in critique by observing the life in this space. The mock-exhibition at the end of the project serves as a extension of this critique, taking up the persona of archaeologists to “uncover” the truth of the Green Rail Corridor.
The “Green” Rail Corridor Short Film
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“Green” Rail Corridor : Re-examining Green Spaces in Singapore
^ Shots from Short Film https://youtu.be/EOndtSLQrBs
^ Drawing of Landmarks Examining the Green Rail Corridor through landmarks
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“Green” Rail Corridor : Re-examining Green Spaces in Singapore
^ Showcase Setup
Presentation of “archaeological” expedition of the Green Rail Corridor
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“Green” Rail Corridor : Re-examining
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^ “Artifacts”
Items collected and displayed in an archive manner
^ Documentation Panels Photos and tools from the “archaeological” expedition
Exhibition: ArchiVal
The Hybridisation of the Digital and Physical
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4 Architecture Dr, Singapore Exhibition (Student Work)
Year 3
Co-Director
Jan - Dec 2021
Ar. Richard K F Ho
ArchiVal was conceived as a two week design exhibition, coupled together with a series of online and physical programmes, showcasing the works, stories, and emotions of the architecture and landscape architecture school community during the period of transition. Moving away from the formalities of the exhibition, this festival hopes to adopt various creative mediums and multimedia platforms to engage with the industry, public and students. www.archival21.com www.instagram.com/archival_2022/
Exhibition - Archival 2021 : The Hybridisation of the Digital and Physical | 21 ^
Exhibition Opening event and exhibition setup
22 | Exhibition - Archival 2021 : The Hybridisation of the Digital and Physical
^ Module Stands Reused for Play Pavilion Archifest 2022, Co-Designer
^ Module Stands Process Co-Designed with Choy Rui Zhi and Sarah Wong
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^ Module Stands Reused at College Alice and Peter Tan 10th Year Anniversary Exhibition
^ Module Stands Reused at HealthCare 2030 Exhibition at National Design Center Singapore
N*thing is Possible
Journey Towards Zero Waste
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National Design Center (SG) Research Collaborator
Year 4
Head of Research Team
May - July 2021
Dr Ho Puay Peng
The “N*thing is Possible” Exhibition was curated by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) for Potato Head. Potato Head is a company centered around building a more sustainable approach to the hospitality industry. The exhibition centered around showing their journey to zero waste. The research team that I led provided the research for the waste landscape of Singapore to compare against what Potato Head Bali has achieved at their resort.
The research required coordination with national agencies, waste companies and on the ground documentation. The collaboration went on for three months and was a engaging learning journey with OMA, EcoMantra and Potato Head Bali.
The eventual work was exhibited at the National Design Center Singapore. Website: https://www.link.potatohead.co/
^ Main Exhibition Area N*thing is Possible at the National Design Center Singapore
^ Research Exhibits Research conducted displayed parallel to statistics from Bali
N*thing
Possible : OMA - PotatoHead - NUS | 25
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Singapore: 6,944,000 tonnes of Waste in 1 Year *
WASTE FACTS
1,562,500 tonnes of Waste in 1 Year: Bali
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*Waste Generated in 2021
^ Work on Site
Shinji Takagi, OMA presenting research collaboration
Sample of Work > Visualised by OMA
Zero Waste Masterplan
NUS Are there plans beyond prolonging the “lifespan” of Semakau Landfill “beyond 2035”?
NEA The Resource Sustainability Act (RSA) was enacted in 2019 to impose upstream regulatory measures on the three priority waste streams, namely e-waste, food waste, and packaging waste.
One example is the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme for e-waste, which was introduced in July 2021, where producers of regulated products are required to pay for the collection and recycling of their products at end-of-life. Such upstream regulations will send economic signals to producers to account for the cost of environmental externalities, and to redesign products to require less materials, last longer, and be more easily recycled.
To encourage more people to switch from disposables to reusables, the “Say YES to Waste Less” campaign by the NEA raises awareness of simple everyday actions that the public can adopt to reduce waste.
We have also conducted public consultations on a charging model for disposable carrier bags handed out at supermarkets. We are developing innovative ways to close our waste loop. For example. NEA is conducting trials to turn incineration bottom ash into NEWSand, which can be used as construction material, so as to divert waste away from Semakau Landfill.
#SAVESEMAKAU
#HIDESUWUNG
N*thing is Possible : OMA - PotatoHead - NUS | 27 RECYCLE REUSE REDUCE LOR LECEH KIASU Convert Waste into Useful Products Waste in Singapore: An Anthropological Perspective by NUS Research Team Re-Use Thingsforthe Sameor New Purpose Use Only What You Need Law Abiding Citizens Troublesome The Fearof Losing Out “We propose the following points for your consideration to add to this narrative that has been established, with particular focus on more salient Singaporean culture — colloquial dictums — which we we might hear every day. We will use the framework of ‘Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle’ to guide our argument.” NUS Research Team Kiasu The Irrational Fear of Losing Out: Linguist Anna Wierzbicka has observed this notion being kiasu that deeply entrenched in the Singaporean psyche, and salient to the Singaporean culture. Kiasu is Hokkien term referring to the fear of losing out — speaking the word forces one to pull back their lower teeth and bark out the last sound. The result is fierce declaration, one with lack of tact and diplomacy, but rich in spirit. This fear we speak of manifests itself in multitude of behaviours in our mundane routines. This can be observed in Singaporeans’ obsession with queues hawker centre stalls, for fear of losing out on the big discount or limited quantity item; Singaporeans’ tendency to chope table at hawker centre for fear that they might lose their seat while queuing for food; Singaporeans’ love for free stuff, regardless of the fact they actually needed the item. we were to abstract this idea of kiasuness, the same can be said about the manner in which Singaporeans consume, which then translates to the waste which is directly generated. The point here is that Singaporeans flaunt sustainability efforts Reducing, because the way we consume not based on need, but on mindless desire driven by the fear of losing out. Kiasu Stinginess and Selfishness: On personal level Writer David Pierson from the Los Angeles Times explicated kiasu to encompass any sort of competitive, stingy, or selfish behaviour commonly witnessed in this highflying city-state. We have established, thus far, that the issue with recycling Singapore is not case where there lack of infrastructure — arguably, there are sufficient and evenly spaced recycling bins scattered around the country. Unfortunately, they are underutilised by the public. One of the most common excuses for the lack of compliance to already-in-place recycling bins — particularly with regards to simply sorting out our waste and tossing them into their respective sorting bins is the trouble of cleaning the waste product before recycling. This insight revealing of the fact that Singaporeans are well aware the processes needed to prepare waste for purposes of recycling, yet strikingly lack the agency and initiative to do so. This kiasu selfishness, which some Singaporeans exhibit, also comes in the form of the trite argument that the personal cost of time and resources that is needed in preparing recyclable waste is just too much to bear, exacerbating their lack of agency and initiative to partake in recycling efforts. Despite what is said, on domiciliary scale, more Singaporeans participate in recycling at home because this inconvenience circumvented — they have the luxury time and resources in the comfort of their home to procure recyclable waste. However, maintains that the main motivation to recycle in Singapore is neither conscientious nor intrinsic, and there is strong preference for domestic recycling by virtue the fact that it is most convenient do so. On commercial level: Based on our interaction with hotels and waste recycling agencies, the intent in reducing waste, and recycling them seems to be economic driven — motivated by cost reduction or profit generation. The recycling process itself also heavily dependent on the cost of operations, and operators easily concede the recycling cost incurred is not viable. E.g. Hotel: Food waste processing reduce tonnage of waste disposed, thus reducing the waste disposal charge imposed by NEA. Recycling Company: The cost auto sorting machine for the plastics about one million SGD and the operation is not large enough to support Plastic Recycling: Export to China has halted, therefore is no longer economically viable to be recycling plastic, causing recycling firms to stop the purchase of plastics. Recycling Supply Chain: The process of recycling requires many intermediate transactions, which minimises profit margin thus further reducing profitability of the industry. This resulted in lack of incentive to partake in the business of recycling. Leceh Troublesome: English Orientalist Richard Windstedt documented that the Singlish term leceh is derived from the Penang Malay word melechehkah to mean troublesome; irritating Singaporeans often use this term to express a profound laziness to complete a given task. From our discussions pertaining to architecture as representation, and the success of Housing Development Board (HDB) rubbish chutes in public residences, the manner in which waste procured from households and brought into the waste management supply chain is rather invisible to daily living. This success of rubbish chutes in managing high-rise living has also trickled down into the designs of most high-rise building apartments in Singapore, be public or private residences, and defined the way we manage waste in our dense built environment. With these successes governmental interventions and policies the early years, the treatment of waste had grown to become less of public effort but rather municipal management by the authorities. The public identify their roles in waste management as following what asked of them. Perhaps the orderliness of Singapore as governed country came at price — the public has relinquished personal social responsibility waste management (arguably alike many of the other facets of communal livelihood), and relegated this very social responsibility to the government. Therefore, the sorting and treating of waste is deemed trivial because the consensus is that “the government will settle (it)”. This almost self-centred mindset may possibly account for the lack of active public participation recycling. E.g. Centralised Rubbish Chutes: The convenience of bin chutes allowed Singaporeans to dispose of waste in their homes, and subsequently exiled from their consciousness. Cleaners: Almost every corner of Singapore is cleaned by contract cleaning service, usually hired by the town council or the building managers. Public Bins: The abundance of bins in public areas caused Singaporeans to be able to discard their waste and leave to the waste management companies to consolidate. Sorting: This laziness extended to the procurement of recyclable waste, resulting the many cases of contamination in public recycling bins. Just Follow Lor (Law) — Law Abiding Citizens Lor is a particle in Singlish that denotes the meaning of submission, usually used at the end of declaration signal submission to fate. this Singlish phrase just follow lor, lor functions as homonym that is similar sounding to the English word law, nonetheless representative of Singaporeans’ innate tendency to abide by the law. Singaporeans are notoriously law-abiding, perhaps telling of the harsh penalties that breaking the country’s laws entail. On lighter note, this law-abiding attitude translates into the fear of acting out of line Singaporeans are more open to the idea of having regulations spelt out and abiding by them, instead of acting in their own personal capacity. This trend of reluctance can be observed from our field documentation of commercial hotels in Singapore, where they hardly going above and beyond to perform waste audits outside of the Mandatory Waste Reporting (MWR) Scheme. All the same, we believe the core of the governmental efforts in waste management and sustainability one that is not heavily focused on providing long term infrastructural solutions to sustainability, but rather temporary fixes: E.g. Mandatory Reporting Scheme: The mandatory reporting scheme still requires efforts from the private sectors to reach their key performance indicators. Redevelopment: As Singapore is constantly redeveloping, solutions for the implementation of waste management amenities is always short term, unless is brand-new development. Reclamation as Solution: Pulau Semakau filling up, which amped up Singapore’s waste management efforts. However, seems that Singapore’s immediate solution for land shortage is always reclamation. That being said, an important insight we developed is that the social responsibility of recycling and waste management vacillates between the government and the public. The Singapore governmental stance wills to promote sustainability through inspiring personal initiative and promoting participation amongst the private sectors, through providing monetary support and mandated regulatory audits; Simultaneously, as we have argued above, the public relinquishes this social responsibility of recycling to the government because Singaporeans are groomed to behave so. This cleft recycling and waste management in Singapore follows this ambiguous ownership, and the irony portrayed between the government and the public — the ultimate social responsibility of recycling and waste management being pushed around between the government and the public.
SINGAPORE threats climate change especially rising sea levels Resource Resilience Ensure safe and secure supply of critical resources like food and water Ensure the future Singapore economy remains competitive overcoming carbon and Throughout Singapore’s development over the years, sustainability has been key consideration. However, we are faced with more attention being placed sustainability, both internationally and locally. New business models from this shift also present good economic opportunities Singapore’s companies and workers. prepare Singapore for the future, Singapore has overcome similar environmental know today. District-based solid refuse collection system: Daily waste collection, with the use waste collection vehicles. Towards a Zero Waste Nation The case for “Zero Waste” Singapore’s solutions Chapter Waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration plants: 1979, Singapore’s first WTE incineration Waste no longer just something useless be buried burnt, but valuable material that can be reintroduced into the production cycle. This done through adopting circular economy approach, where resource loops closed and waste designed out the system Keeping our resources within closed loop Chapter Aerial view Semakau Landfill Space was running out Singapore’s last inland dumping ground Lorong Halus the 1990s. Hence, the sea space between Pulau waste. However, projected out space 2035. Through the efforts outlined Zero Waste Masterplan, we aim reduce the examine how companies can better manage production stage. Sustainable design: Design products more durable and repairable, easily identify opportunities reduce materials and improve material efficiency. Sustainable production Industrial symbiosis: One company’s Such mutually beneficial collaborations, or industrial symbiosis, illustrated through the design Tuas Nexus, where National Environment Agency’s (NEA) Integrated Waste Management Facility will integrated with This addition our existing 2030 targets do will adopt sustainability each of three stages of value chain: production, consumption and waste resource management. 30% 81% 30% 70% sustainably. 2019, NEA launched two campaigns encourage consumers “reduce”. Food waste reduction campaign encourage consumers buy, order reusables instead disposables reduce our impact on the environment. hawker centres promote repair culture. Ground-up initiatives like Repair Kopitiam also promote repair workshops and courses community. Donate: Items that are still good condition but longer needed can donated instead Sustainable consumption products with environmental considerations, import more green-labelled products adopt green procurement policy. “buy, order, cook just enough” State Environment and Water Resources, Amy Khor The Zero Waste Masterplan When reducing our consumption and reusing our items are not feasible, recycling comes helping turn waste into resources. We have been successful closing waste loop some waste streams, with 99% Sustainable waste & resource management Photo: REMEX recycling rate construction debris, ferrous metals and non-ferrous metals. However, more needs done improve our domestic recycling rate and tackle high contamination rate our recycling bins. Closing metal resource loop: metal recovery facility operated REMEX current separators and multi-stage sieving techniques. Towards Zero Waste Nation The recycling bin label was re-designed help public #RecycleRight Building with waste: Protocol, reusable and non-reusable parts building have be identified, then separately dismantled and removed facilitate recycling into new materials such recycled concrete aggregate (RCA). designed the labels on them that consumers deposited into bins. The Zero Waste Masterplan A circular economy approach to closing three resource loops Chapter recycling rate. E-waste also contains toxic substances and needs properly managed. Electrical and electronic equipment improve e-waste management, we will implement the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework, which extends producers’ responsibilities the proper end-oflife management their products. Resource Sustainability Act 2021, producers certain categories EEE including manufacturers and importers physically and/or financially responsible the end-of-life treatment their products. They This been used effectively promote the recycling e-waste and recovery valuable materials other countries, including South Korea and Sweden. Producer Responsibility Scheme (PRS), which takes producers’ responsibilities collecting and recycling consumer EEE. Retailers will have provide free one-for-one takeWHAT DOES EPR ENTAIL? Towards Zero Waste Nation Food waste The NEA developed resources encourage Food waste minimisation guidebooks reduction guides here: Printers Personal computers Laptops 20% Hybrid electric vehicle batteries On-site food waste treatment systems: conducted gather insights household routines that encourage such practices. Co-digesting food waste and used water sludge can triple biogas yield compared digesting used water sludge alone, enhancing energy generation. food waste into food waste recycling and recycling pilot Mandatory food waste segregation and industrial premises, where large amounts food waste expected generated, must set aside space for onsite food waste treatment systems their design plans. Large commercial and industrial FOOD WASTE? DON’T WASTE! packaging. This will be legislated under the Resource Sustainability Act the foundation EPR framework managing packaging waste, including place later than 2025. ENCOURAGING SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION OF PACKAGING Packaging, including plastics ENCOURAGING SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION OF PACKAGING 54,000 tonnes packaging waste and save $130 million packaging material costs since inception 2007. Zero Waste SG’s Bring Your Own (BYO) campaign: Supported NEA’s Call for Ideas Fund, BYO campaign encourages than two million pieces plastic disposables Optimising infrastructure for maximum resource recovery Chapter Even new policies are implemented and infrastructure developed, we will need continually improve existing waste management technologies enhance our treatment and recovery waste. Pilot Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT) facility Harvesting IBA for construction will have mechanical process recover recyclables like plastics, ferrous and nonferrous metals, and an aerobic biological treatment process convert the waste into tonnes non-incinerable waste being disposed Semakau Landfill each year, projected be 2035. To extend Semakau Landfill’s lifespan, developing ways use IBA non-structural applications as “NEWSand”. The NEA developing The NEA studying structural applications Transforming the environmental services industry Chapter The environmental services industry often viewed low-skilled and low-tech, and overlooked young job seekers due poor career prospects. However, through the Environmental Services Industry Transformation Map ITM), about 30,000 people from the industry jobs and skills, productivity and internationalisation. Technology and innovation ramping up the use technology, recyclables means required empty spur innovation and drive technology support them with various funding schemes. Productivity Internationalisation To transform the industry, Singapore looking Given Singapore’s small market size, companies can only grow venturing The NEA also supports companies that venture overseas by developing their capabilities high potential growth areas. The NEA aims develop integrated solutions for city planning and development projects overseas tapping on the unique capabilities different industry sectors Jobs and skills crucial improve the skills workers Skills and knowledge Huat learns the leading Part(Environmental Management) Republic Polytechnic Vacuum low operating temperature Shaping a greener future with science and technology Chapter Using microbes convert food waste into compost, turning incineration ash into construction materials these are just two the many possible ways close our waste and resource loops through recycling reuse. experiments with cutting-edge science and technology, to create more sustainable solutions. However, this requires collective effort. We are bringing together the expertise and resources academia, enterprise and the Government create cohesive R&D ecosystem. Closing the Waste Loop (CTWL) R&D Initiative: $45 million programme which encourages partnerships between Institutes Higher Learning, Research Institutes and private sector enterprises. aims to develop ways utilise resources efficiently, extend the lifespan Semakau Landfill, while maintaining high standards of public health. Waste-to-Energy (WTE) R&D programme: $25 million programme boost energy recovery efficiency and explore alternative WTE technologies. Under this programme, $40 million WTE Research Facility was set players with physical, open platform pilot testing. plug-and-play features support experimentation and test-bedding scale. WTE Research Facility Tuas South (From left) Chief Executive Officer the NEA, Tan Meng Dui; Minister the Environment and Water Resources, Mr Masagos Zulkifli; and President Nanyang Technological University, Professor Subra Suresh, holding pieces of concrete made with slag produced from the waste gasification processes. This highlights the potential of turning waste into material for useful applications, which contributes closing the waste loop. The Zero Waste Masterplan Zero Waste Nation without the partnership of businesses, individuals and organisations. Co-creating solutions 6,000 stakeholders, including companies, nongovernmental organisations and individuals, developing the Zero Waste Masterplan. Ground-up efforts Initiatives our partners from the people, public and private sectors include the Singapore Environment Council’s “One Less Plastic” campaign December 2018, which encouraged shoppers to use reusable bags, and the Waste Management and Recycling Association Singapore’s regular community outreach to promote waste reduction and environmental initiatives schools through funding support platforms showcase exemplary student projects. The Ministry of the Towards a Zero Waste Nation, together Chapter Environment and Water Resources (MEWR) also partners the National Youth Council engaging youth leaders on environmental policies and Partnerships beyond borders Singapore has partnered countries like China, Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands, Oman, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates through Memorandums of Understanding, policy exchanges well as industry workshops and demonstration projects. Sustained 3P Partnerships MEWR convening Citizens’ Workgroup co-create solutions with Singaporeans improve household recycling and reduce the contamination rate our blue recycling bins, which currently 40%. We will continue work with our solutions for sustainable Singapore. Together, becoming Zero Waste Nation. precious resources Our Target PUSHING BOUNDARIES THROUGH RESEARCH AND INFRASTRUCTURE Con stems Comprising Integr aste Management acility harness gies acr the NEWSand Use inciner Biological tment uasOne Waste-torg Closing Th funded 2019 cility CO-CREATING SOLUTIONS WITH THE COMMUNIT By achi recycling ra 81% non-domestic cling 30% domestic cycling ra orkgroup on recycling design recycling bin ycleRight campaign $45 million $25 million ory Sandbo ships $30 million TRANSFORMING THE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES INDUSTR 2,000 firms 30 000 worker More than Environmenta Services Map by to Achieve Sustainable, Resource-E cien and Climate-Resilient Singapor Zero Waste Masterplan 3 educe amount waste sent to landfill per capita da by 30% by 2030 Extend Semakau Landfill lif beyond 2035 250 5,000 1,300 TRENGTHENING THREE RESILIENCES change especial rising onomic Resilience Clima esilience GOVERNMENT AKING THE LEAD Three Priorit aste Streams source Sustainabilit 2024 2020 2025 2021 Packaging waste, including plastics E-wast Manda ood tion esponsibility packaging, including plastics, tory packaging eporting ood waste his, adopt approach consulted companies people icipa More han ed on clin fe and secur suppl critical ces ood and feedback and suggestions and gave their support the Zero Waste Masterplan Singapore. Copyright Ministry Environment and Water Resources rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored retrieval system, transmitted any form any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording otherwise, without the prior permission copyright owners. Printed FSC-certified paper Produced by: The Nutgraf LLP Design Garçon Design E.M.: “All financial proposals and technical solutions failed due to too much water and too little tipping fee commitments.” E.M “That is very high. Suwung gets around 1300 tons per day. That would be Presidential Regulation No. 35/2018 concerning the Acceleration of Construction of Waste Processing Installations into Electrical Energy Based on Environmentally Friendly Technology. Head of the Bali Investment Agency and One Stop Integrated Service (PTSP) Ida Bagus Parwata said as many as 58 investors were interested in investing in the Suwung Waste Disposal Site (TPA) management project from waste into electrical energy. “There are so many who ask both at home and abroad, some from Arab, Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese, Danish to German,” he said. The plan is for the construction to be carried out by two stateowned companies, Indonesia Power and Waskita Karya. In addition, Koster says that the services of specialist
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Ascending to the Sky
Old Changi Hospital Ideas Competition
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Expanding on the building’s relationship with aviation both in history and physical elevation, the design is an ode to the sky.
The proposal is a series of vertical experiences, whose links are made through components that slowly reveal themselves through the journey to the skies. Re-establishing links to the surrounding aerospace environment in a family friendly learning experience.
This takes place in the form of viewing platforms, educational resources littered throughout the building and facilities such as the observatory. The design takes advantage of the neighbouring park connectors establishing the building
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ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY PLANETARY AND AVIATION Expanding on the building’s relationship with aviation both in history and physical elevation, the design is an ode to the sky. The proposal is series of vertical experiences, whose links are made through components that slowly reveal themselves through the journey to the skies. Re-establishing links to the surrounding aerospace environment in family friendly learning experience. This takes place in the form of viewing platforms, educational resources littered throughout the building and facilities such as the observatory. The design takes advantage of the neighbouring park connectors establishing the building as part of the network. Bewitched by the brightness of our metropolis, we often forget the extraordinary vision from the vault of heaven. Further above the light, the thunder of planes soar into the skies; the birth of new journey. THE FORTRESS AND NATURE so slightly above the tree canopy watches over the sleepy coastal area. The building’s relationship with day and night is inexplicable, the east facing windows brings about wonderful sunrise from the coast, the day allows us to experience a rush of wanderlust at the crossing planes, the night the scarce artifical lights allows us to marvel at the stars. NATURE AVIATION Entrance Hands- on Learning Viewing Deck Library Media Cafeteria, Reading Biophilic Play Birdwatching Astrological Research Laboratory 10 Mass Viewing Telescope Outdoor Observatory 12 Departure
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The building peeking ever so slightly above the tree canopy watches over the sleepy coastal area. The building’s relationship with day and night is inexplicable,
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Object-Oriented Ontology
Personal Musings of Things
A collection of musings of the everyday, through the two mediums of sketching and photography. What started as a daily sketching habit morphing into a new awareness of things. With a particular interest in objects, the two mediums reflect a way of observing.
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Sketching Collection
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