SWEAT / 02
The Veiled Chandelier Robinson Road , Singapore
Jason Tan (Year 4\ Associate Professor Erik L’Heureux)
The transformation of John Graham’s AIA Building is one of a climactic exterior as well as a contrasting interior. The gradated stretch and twist of the envelope reacts to the solar path resulting in an East-West impenetrability and a NorthSouth porosity. This gradient mitigates the tower’s overall solar exposure by densely shading the upper levels that receive more solar radiation and opens up the lower to allow in more light and air. The relentlessness of its employment goes to the extent of concealing the entrance, therein creating the effect of the veil. Interior air-conditioned spaces are incrementally recessed towards the lower levels to further mitigate spatial heat gain - naturally ventilated spaces consequentially increase. The glassed volumes are hung from primary floor slabs and seem to descend from above creating the effect of the chandelier.
Pulau Jubin (Ubin) Granite Island / ‘chieo suar’ Landscape Focus Design Studio (Year 3\ Assistant Professor Rafaella Sini ) The exercise used a number of tools necessary to engage in a critical reading of context: techniques of representation such as mapping, sketching, comparative visual analysis are explored, to conceptualize, imagine and convey the complex, layered landscape strata, its range of interpretation and possibilities.