This is home truly Celestine Supervisor: Tim Pyke
This project recognises the personalisation and adaptation of space in the Traditional Singaporean Kampung village as architecture. It facilitates agency, familiarity, and ownership. This project recognises the need for HDB housing in Singapore to be renewable instead of being demolished after 2 generations of occupation for new HDB housing. The project acknowledges that relationships, habits in daily life and occupation are erased when people are asked to move into new accommodation, and it takes a generation to develop these relationships again. Therefore, this project is an alternative model for Singaporean HDB’s where multiple generations can continue living in the same location whilst the building stock is updated in an adjacent government-owned block. The project is not nostalgic, it does not want to go back to the 60s, but it acknowledges the collective lifestyle of that era. It has minded these past examples as a way to make a new collective model for Singapore by applying them to architecture to maintain social relationships, passing knowledge between generations, having agency over communal spaces, and including aged care and childcare within the tower rather than on the ground in the HDB complex.