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6 Studio Florian Schätz is a design and research studio that emphasises the design of architectural projects through structural modular elements using additive manufacturing as construction method. The Pink Poodle studio documents a design strategy for a destination hotel in Cambodia through modelmaking, rapid prototyping, 3D printing and visual communication, where new architecture emerges in the intersection between tourism, real estate and new construction techniques in the tropics.
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8 Florian Schätz. Dipl. Arch ETH Research x Design Studio Year 4 Semester 1 AY2018/2019 Department of Architecture School of Design and Environment National University of Singapore 4 Architecture Drive Singapore 117 566 Email: design@face2050.com www.face2050.com
THE PINK POODLE © 2018 Florian Schätz © 2018 Individual Contributors © 2018 Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission from the publisher. The publisher does not warrant or assume any legal responsibilities for the publication’s content. All opinions expressed in the book are of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the National University of Singapore. EDITOR Florian Schätz STUDENT EDITORS Yap Chee Keng Vedant Urumkar Guo Qian Studio Florian Schätz
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Lu Wenda Li Mingzhou Vedant Urumkar Yap Chee Keng Wang Sixin Chansokhan Nuon Ong Xian Shi Justin Moon Hyeong Geun Li Meihui Guo Qian Shi Qian MID TERM REVIEW GUESTS
Cheah Kok Ming I-Jin Chew Chiara Calufetti Joseph Lim FINAL REVIEW GUESTS
Erik L’Heureux Soo Khian Chan John Hong Sonja Berthold Paolo Di Leo Daniela Ottmann Tomoshisa Miyauchi Wong Yunn Chii Giovanni Vigano Hun Chansan Lai Chee Kien I-Jin Chew The Pink Poodle
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Motel Studies Motel Programmatic analysis Vann Molyvann Structure Taxonomy SITE ANALYSIS
Sihanoukville Beach Bokor Mountain
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Lu Wenda Li Mingzhou PROJECT II
Li Meihui Guo Qian Shi Qian PROJECT III
Wang Sixin Ong Xian Shi Justin PROJECT IV
Chansokhan Nuon Vedant Urumkar PROJECT V
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THE PINK POODLE The Pink Poodle unearths and projects the architecture of mid-century beach-front modernism. It presents new ways of tropical living between glitz and glamour, of greatness and greed. It wants to resurface the lasting spirit of the 50s and 60s design, its values and most important its atmospheric qualities of openness, transparency, details and construction. Bringing closer the past and its hidden gem, Studio Florian Schätz projects a new architecture that is formed by technology, structure and atmosphere. While learning from modernism, with all its relevant bold moments and stringent forms, The Pink Poodle merges structuralism with tropicality and hospitality. Now that everybody can fly, the modern traveller creates his own new destinations. Vlogs and friends financing the perfect trip of self-awareness in the centre of serenity. The World is broadcasting. We will not critique the rise and fall of a modern day Icarus* on the quest of urban escapes. It is more about getting a real good take. The Pink Poodle is performing “the Last Waltz” and creating new stories of the unseen, demonstrating mastery and projections for a generation striving to be ahead. It is about the making of a critical regionalism. Demands of leisure and trivial entertainment are creating spatial expressions that hold programs of lifestyle and joy. We aim to recollect the real essential qualities of architecture with a new amplitude and atmosphere beyond program, layout and social innovation; otherwise architecture
seems to be lost without any meaning. As expression of 3D printed form, new structural space is derived from additive manufacturing, printing the formwork and casting concrete. The Pink Poodle is about creating a new beachfront Landmark Motor Hotel with facilities on a tropical coastline. A super paradise with #45 units, attractive restaurant in tropical garden setting, swimming pool, BBQ Spaces, meeting room, works and conference spaces in relation to landscape, horizon and real estate. Stunning visualisation, model photography and line drawings, as well as in-depth examinations of existing projects discuss the issues of tropical form, mid-century modernism and concrete structures. The design process is emphasizing on the making of large 1:50 models and casting concrete modules in 3D printed formwork. Studio Florian Schätz is a Design Research Studio affiliated to modernism, that builds on modular building elements, breezeblocks, tropical structures and 3D printed formwork. Earlier Studio publications such as Printing Architecture, Skydwellers, Skyhive and Structure-tonics serve as the foundation. The Pink Poodle is ruled by hunger, while waltzing Mathilda. Florian Schätz, Design Research Studio National University of Singapore 2018
* The Pink Poodle was an iconic Motel in Surfers Paradise. Representing the place of car-culture, beach-life and sleaze. It was the place of the Novel A Night at the Pink Poodle by Matthew Condon. Only its Signboard has survived.
* “The Last Waltz” is a concert film of the Band by Martin Scorsese. Florian Schätz is performing his Last Waltz with friends in the final review, after twelve years of passionate commitment to reseach and education.
* “Waltzing Mathilda” is a song by Tom Waits and also an Australian bush ballad.
* The son of master craftsman Daedalus / Icarus a Penthouse Salesman in Matt Condons Novel A Night at The Pink Poodle. The Pink Poodle
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Integrated mixed hotel proposal for a tourist destination in Cambodia which holds 70% units, 10% retail space and 20% conference and work spaces, max height ~part 4-store, part 35m above Main Sea level or on a mountian edge in Bokor National Park. ~ 4000 GFA, number of units 45 METHODOLOGY
Case studies, research on structure, typology, future hospitality, hotel design, preliminary design of the Pink Poodle architectural expression and form through structural design. Develop modular systems of the structural tropical envelope under climatic, urban and functional aspects, model making scale 1:50, 1:1 in cardboard, plaster, wax and 3D-Print prototypes of a modular structural envelope Atmospheric exterior and interior images Studio Florian Schätz
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The objective of the studio is to design a tropical mixed use Beach Resort H(m)otel with 45 units, restaurant, bars, pool conference and workspace on a beach front. Structural principles drive the design method. Spaces are the result of structural systems using 3D printing. An emphasis is given on model making, additive manufacturing and casting a structural modular elements in concrete, scale 1:50 to 1:1.
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Research by Design Cluster NUS Sem I 2018/19 AR 4101:
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FIELDTRIP: THE LAST WALZ The Field trip will bring us to discover the works of Vann Molyvann and the New Khmer Architecture. With some one of the most important examples of regionally inflected modernism of the late 20th century we will study pre-existing Cambodian forms of concrete construction and assertive structures, serial modular building system and form of tropical brutalism to bring this in relation to diverse other international styles, blended element of Modern Movement and Cambodian Traditions. Time: Location: Theme: Visits:
30.08.2018 till 03.09.2018 Phnom Penh / Tropical Brutalism and the New Khmer Architecture Hotel Cambodiana, Chaktomuk Compound, Chaktomuk Conference Hall and Theatre, Chenla Royal University of Phnom Penh, Institute of foreign languages
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The Caribbean Motel is an historic motel located in Wildwood Crest, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States, in an area now known as the Wildwoods Shore Resort Historic District. The motel was built in 1957 in the Doo-Wop style by Lou Morey. It was owned by the Rossi family until the early 1990s, and was the first motel to use the full-size plastic palm trees that now adorn most of the Doo Wop motels in the area. Opened in 1957, the Caribbean Motel was among the wildest designs in the Post-WW II era, incorporating such elements as a crescent-shaped pool, a “levitating ramp”, and canted glass walls. At the time it was proposed, no neon sign as big as the Caribbean Motel’s had ever been installed in Wildwood Crest; however, after much deliberation, the town decided to allow it. The interior design was by Darleen Lev, a designer from New York City who was staying at the motel around the time that Miller and Emigh bought the property. An admirer of the Technicolor film process, Lev’s designs are modeled on movie sets of the 1950s, as well as reflecting the motel’s Caribbean motif.
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It was built at the southern entrance to Merimbula in the late 1950s and was considered Australia’s pre-eminent motel during the 1960s. On their frequent trips up and down the Princes Highway, Stonier and Buchanan stayed frequently at the new Mitchell Valley Motel in Bairnsdale, designed by Melbourne architect John Mockridge and developed by David Yencken. The brief that Yencken gave him for the design was that it should capture the essence of Australia and should blend into the natural environment rather than replicate the American-style motels that were being built elsewhere in Australia. Over the years the motel has been modified many times diminishing its strong architectural character and robbing it of its prestige, though some aspects of its original charm have withstood the interference.
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The Croatian architect Ivan Vitic´ (1917–1984). He was a unique phenomenon among Croatian architects, as he approached every assignment with an equal sensibility towards the materiality, context, and plasticity of architecture. Motel Trogir was built in 1965 at the western entrance to the city of Trogir, according to the design of the architect Ivan Vitić, representing today one of its most neuralgic points, having endured years of devastation due to unresolved property relations. Built during a period of markedly transit tourism in Trogir, the construction of the Motel had been planned in parallel to that of the Adriatic Highway (it was opened for business a day after the opening of the Highway), as one of the “performative” elements which would fit into the then Utopian vision of the Highway conceived as a feature film unfolding “on the passengers’ windscreens”
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“Modernity should not be inspired superficially by western ideas that destroy all traces of the past. New building should bring heritage and tradition back to life.�
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1965 The Catholic church in Sihanoukville was built 1975 - 1990 during the time of Khmer Rouge, the church was transformed into a jailhouse and animal shed. it is said that because of its abstract modern form the Pol Pot regime did not see it as a church and therefore did not demolish it. 1991 The Church became the 6th headquarters of the UNTAC (United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia. Like an inverted fisherman boat, the church is situated on a slope overlooking the outskirts of Sihanoukville defining a single space with five large triangular concrete frames. The facade is filled with triangular shaped orange painted Breezeblocks giving the interior a warm coloured spiritual glow and slight cross breeze.
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The Institute of Foreign Languages ​​forms a complex with a number of overhanging classrooms and is the culmination of a design idea that Vann Molyvann has explored intensely during his career. A watercollecting roof that expresses structural principles , allows cross ventilation and daylight into the space. His composition of material, structure and light work together perfectly in this tropical environment. The result is a brutalist rhombus as a striking form that is shaped by its pure function. The four classrooms get support from inclined columns that make the structure both static and dynamic at the same time. Their sloping form of the classroom auditorium compensates versus the ground level and gives the building an expressiv energy. The concrete roof is formed as a drain and allows light to fall into the building while serving as the structural element. Structuretonics by Vann Molyvann. In the former teachers seminar building is today the Institute for Foreign Languages. The Centre building of the University ensemble by Vann Molyvann of a cultural rich Cambodian Modernism from 1972. The center core is a huge void with the prefab roof fins letting the air circulate as a heterogene collage of fins, brick, ventilationblocks and concrete
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The project is a study in techniques of cross-ventilation, indirect lighting and water management—and in the architectural forms that best express them. The central building inverts the temple-mountain form of Angkor Wat, allowing each floor to shade the level below; claustras and brise-soleils are used extensively throughout; folded concrete double roofs provide thermal insulation and screened skylights allow filtered daylighting. Angkorian site and building design is referenced throughout the College complex: elevated walkways link the central building to the main entry and to all the adjacent structures, barays flank the walkway entering the main building, a library sits just west of the central hall, and naga statues adorn handrails. As in the ‘hydraulic city’ of Angkor, water runs within much of the College’s structure, filling the small barays next to the central building, Now known as the Institute of Foreign Languages, the complex continues to fulfill its original program.*
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“The Cambrew Brewery, originally SKD Brewery, in the northeast of the Sihanoukville, is where Angkor Beer is produced. Built in 1966, the brewery operated for almost a decade before being closed down by the Khmer Rouge. It eventually reopened in 1991. Like many of the Molyvann’s buildings, the offices are on stilts. This is a common feature of Khmer homes – it protects the house from floodwater during the rainy season and creates a cool, shady area to escape from the heat”* * from” Vann Molyvann in Sihanoukville” by Tom Snik
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As regular cubus the building is constructed as a framework of several concrete trusses spanning over a cross-ventilated inner entrance hall, which is defining the entrance under a six meter cantilevered overhang. Public spaces and beer tasting are located at the entrancelevel, while the second floor houses the administration of the brewery.
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Built from reinforced concrete, the station portrays an eclectic design. The facade of the building appears as late art deco, but works to function as a tropical building in response to the hot climatic condition of Phnom Penh: high ceiling and large openings on either side provide cross ventilation. The building is constructed from six catenary arches which support the facade and the beams, allowing for a large open span to suit the program of a station. The building also utilizes a bilaterally symmetrical plan, while the elevation is inspired from the French colonial Beaux-Arts.
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Constructed in 1932, the Royal Railway station of Phnom Penh once serviced a direct line from Phnom Penh to Battambang. The station has been largely used for the distribution of sporadic goods like oil tanks between the Phnom Penh dry port and Sihanoukville container port since 2004. Located on the intersection between Monivong and Russian Boulevard, the station was renovated and reopened in the year 2010. However since then, the passenger seats are very limited and it is advised to check timings for the official passenger trains. In Democratic Kampuchea, the pivotal meeting of the Khmer Rouge was held at the Railway station in April 1975, which projected as the founding date of the Workers Party of Kampuchea, following the downfall of Phnom Penh. The Royal Railway station of Phnom Penh was on the many buildings which symbolized the Golden age in terms the advancement and sophistication of the Cambodian Society before the Khmer Rouge. A landmark of what has been lost. Today the Chinese One Road, One Belt initiative introduces a completely new infrastructure and investment opportunity to the country.
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Significant in structure and formal expression circulation seems to hold the idea of a wide grandstand. Three stairs on each side define the entrance of the indoor stadium. Transformers of concrete are rough yet filigree. An amazing statement in the former Kings eyes of a flourishing Khmer before the destruction and cultural tabula rasa of Angkar. Vann Molyvann created extraordinary buildings that are today again threatened - by decay and development. The National Stadium is a unique reliquia of urban form transformed.
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“The Indoor Stadium lies at the west end of the complex‚ its four tabletop roofs each lifted by a single column‚ a feat managed with the assistance of Le Corbusier’s engineer Vladimir Bodiansky.” - The structure is reflecting the three tables of the swimming pool and inverting the load bearing system. The massive roof spans as wide structure of an inverted truss over the sports field. Rainwater drains down in large pipes feeding pools of water, reminiscent of the systems in Angkor Wat. Despite surviving decades of upheaval‚ the stadium might be endanger due to the future development in Phnom Penh. Light is shimmering through the porous facade of breezeblocks. The audience can enjoy a cross-breeze on their feet while watching a game in the arena. Built for the Asian Games, that never took place the stadium is more alive today and serves as public space and meeting point for a younger crowd, runners and kid playing in the fields. The indoor stadium reflects tropical brutalism in the most astonishing space as public space becomes a temple of indoor sports. * http://www.uncubemagazine.com/blog/15359429
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The library is a core element in the master plan for the French Language Learning Institute. Connected over bridges and surrounded with water ponds it speaks the language of modernism and bĂŠton brut with neo-baroque elements cast in concrete. It appears as a structure larger than it is. The circular form aligns a sequence of concrete elements as structural ribs that are integral to the image of the library and allow cross ventilation, while being expressing as as Bris Soleil the structural elements, that remind on a palm leaf hat.
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Massive earthworks were employed in the construction of the outdoor stadium seats. the Morphology of concretet slabs, sand and grass create the topography of arena and urban form. Seating rows without any boundary allowing visitors to be as separated or close as they see fit. Three massive reverse pyramids with square bases cantilever over the grandstand giving shelter to watch the swimming spectacle under the harsh tropical sun. Vann Molyvann’s structuralism is sensational. He inverts the structure to create space. The massive triple roof cantilevers and brings the massive loads down on four columns, drawn back on one upper tie-beam. The expressionistic roof works as a huge funnel drains and collect the water from a heavy tropical rain. Vann Molyvann is the tropical Corbu.
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The Swimming Pool, located on the eastern edge of the National Stadium in Phnom Penh, is one amongst the many outdoor facilities which grants the general public access for daily use. Within the vicinity, the facility includes an olympic-size pool of 18x50 meter, a 18x17 meter pool directly underneath the diving tower. The racing pool, as indicated by the tiling of the pool, has eight lanes and each with their own diving platforms. The tower allows for the possibility of diving from the first, second and fourth, visually defined by their trapezoidal shapes. Each levels of the tower can be accessed through steep staircases wedged between the two pillars that erects the tower. Two buildings located on the north and south of the facilities produces a sense of closure to the pools. The one on the north, provides usage to the pools as individuals will be able to access changing rooms and shower rooms as well as the ticketing booth which keeps the facility operable. The upper level of the buildings are terraces which grant panoramic view of the facility and behind them are office rooms with entire glass panels over looking the ongoing aquatic activities.
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WM Motel is about re-interpret the New Khmer Architecture style by utilising the versatility of concrete and exploration of curves to create the contemporary brutalist architecture that serves as an adaptive shell to accommodate the motel program. The motel architecture focuses on frame-making to create a building frame that is transparent, porous and bearing lightness. Concrete’s inherent bulkiness is reduced to a minimum using concrete casting techniques folding an arch for building elements. In this building, there are three levels of structural elements which evolve from one another to achieve a consistent structural language. The Pink Poodle
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Exposed Skeleton: It is the main language of the architecture. It brings transparency and porosity. It responds to the site conditions allowing the sea breezes and the sunlight to enter. The openness at the lower levels prevents the surrounding visual connection from being interrupted by the building itself (especially the sea view from the highway.). Adaptability: The overall skeleton structure bearing all loads allow the internal partition walls to have greater freedom in an univesal space, and therefore creating flexibility for accommodating various programs. Choice of High Rise: 1. To reduce the building footprint 2. Lower space for public users 3. The residents staying at the higher level to enjoy the sea view and to be able to overlook the city. The Pink Poodle
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Situated on the Mlop Chrey beach of Sihanoukville, Cambodia the proposal is a motel for a rising number of Millenial travellers. After the first visit to the beach, there was this feeling to design a building as close as possible to the water. This idea transforms a cantilevering structure to float above the sea. The idea of using hyperparabolic structures allows the circular form to embrace the tide. Water becomes part of the building. Convex concave arches frame the views above the sea and become the structural elements. One shell stands for one room. Each room is individually accessible from the lobby area. Each shell defines a part of the truss structure to connect the shell as cantilever. The structural forms are following throughout the building not just in a plan but also as part of the interior design and landscape design. The Pink Poodle
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A mirrored landscape invites you to approach the building along a gentle curve. You can enter the motel either by foot or by car. If this is the first time for you to come to visit, park your car in front of the building and follow the pathway under the parabolic shelter. When you arrive at the drop off area and the lobby a fascinating seaside scenery will attract your attention, while enjoying the sunshine and the breeze; the pool is quiet and you will feel a sense of spatial ritual when you walk down and touch the water. Back to the first floor, the lobby is designed as an open space for guests greeting and meeting with each other. Two elevators on the left serve the rooms and another one on the right is for the staff. Yet they share a set of stairs together. When you enter the lobby, take a rest at the waiting area, while we prepare your check-in. Two large stairs on both sides are fully designed as large furniture with larger steps to site on and to enjoy some tea, dealing with some business matters or just chatting with friends. The second floor is an open and integrated multi purpose space. back of house, support and staff faciloties are located in the back of the building. We take of everything, so you can interact with the surrounding sea, may it just be to watching the waves or walking down Studio Florian Schätz
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the porticus. All the furniture and interior decoration in the lobby follow one architectural language. There are two types of rooms located on the third floor and the fourth floor. The first type of rooms is the one which is situated in the cantilevering area. Accessible through a spiral stairs one enters first the second maisonette floor and then a more secluded private room, which is created as part of the large and gentle structures framing the view of the sea. Both of the rooms and corridor are designed as structural frames as well, to bring enough light and breeze into the building.
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The project explores the possibilities of a truss system created with a concrete form able to be applied throughout the building. With careful consideration in engineering feasibility, the “bone” truss member was created. The building reaches and cantilevers out from the Cambodian mountainside, a majestic form protruding out from the lush greenery in the middle of nowhere. The structural “bones” form the aesthetical and architectural language, enhancing and dictating the ambience, giving users the sense of scale, space and light in each location. The Pink Poodle
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Embracing the ambience of being underground, the truss element archs in multiple directions, and together with an elevated floor height, creates vault-like spaces where space is felt out of scale, yet relatable as the form pushes you in a simple linear pattern towards the next space. Guests are brought from the carpark and entrance, into the large hall space, ambiently lit, creating drama as users catch glimpses of the outside, where they cross the cantilevered bridge. Through this process, a great change overwhelms users, where they step out from the underground hall into one where they step above the treeline, and forward, even more into a space suspended in the air. Finally, guests arrive at their rooms, where the linearity is broken with a slight twist and curve of each room. Here, guests enjoy the serenity of being raised up in the middle of nowhere, able to enjoy the mountain view from the bed in their rooms leading out to their own balconies. Each space aims to create a timeless scene, beautiful yet functional, in a gothic-like aesthetic as a form of a ‘Modern Baroque’. Studio Florian Schätz
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Bokor Mountain National Park as the site for this project, situated in Kampot, Cambodia, is described as a “health resort� and a holiday retreat destination from the busy lifestyle of the city by the Sokha group. Being situated at 800m above sea level, this tropical mountain features a certain gloomy yet mystical atmosphere which accommodates a strong contemplative tone. The previously mentioned Sokha group has two hotels based on this location being Le Bokor Paradise and Thansur Bokor which attempt to broaden out to a wide range of audience while not taking into account the atmosphere that comes with the location. This leaves an open opportunity for a spa resort which integrates itself with the contemplative tone and mystical atmosphere of the site which henceforth the exploration of this project. The Pink Poodle
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Accommodating such contemplative tone requires the hotel to be monolithic in form while being on such elevation requires the use of shear walls to frame the view in order to control the tone within the building. Such monolithic form generates a certain mood within the building as well as enforces a certain reflective thinking for the visitors. Through the use of shear walls such monolithic form and contemplative tone was achieved through the play of convex and concave forms in order to frame views towards the surrounding terrain as well as allowing such form to transform all the components that make up the hotel. Limiting said views may result in a darker interior yet the exploration of said forms with a controlled amount of light allows for an earnest relationship between the forms with light and shadow and such relationship is potent enough to be felt by people. “Were it not for shadows, there would be no beautyâ€? as described by Junichiro Tanizaki in his book, In Praise of Shadow, may allow us to further understand the strange allure accustomed with that of monolithic and contemplative architecture. Studio Florian Schätz
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Located at the Bokor Mountain, the CK Moon Hotel is a destination hotel with its impressive cantilever that is unlike anywhere else. Responding to the phenomenon of ‘the pink poodle’, the hotel aims to be a catalyst for a change in society, where it introduces a refreshing alternative way of living, providing a respite away from the obsession with social media and virtual interactions. Designed with huge open spaces within each level, the flexibility of space and variety of programmes encourages the guests to engage in offline interactions and socialise in real life. The Pink Poodle
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To attract visitors to a secluded site, the architecture is designed with an iconic form that emerges out of the forest, captivating its guest. One of the novel experience that the hotel provides will be its central escalator that cuts through the mass and brings its guest to the sky pool deck. The opening within each level frames the sky and enhances the experience on the escalator, which will eventually lead the guests to the sky deck which opens the magnificent view of the mountain to the guest, ending the experience with the vastness and beauty of nature. Studio Florian Schätz
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Exploiting the ability of 3D printing, the module was thoroughly explored and improved to come up with a complex concrete form that is light and expressive, at the same time, retaining its structural integrity. Inspired by Pier Luigi Nervi, the end result was a structural module that enunciates simplicity and efficiency. The module expresses the tectonics of the structure and elegance of the curves within. At the same time, it was able to convey the structural clarity to the visitors, allowing for greater appreciation even from laymen. The repetitive motive along the facade also frames the view of the mountain, capturing the spectacular scenery perfectly. With the innovative and bold use of concrete to create the structure, the CK Moon Hotel is able to embody the essences of concrete brutalism and offers different views on neobrutalist structures.
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THE HOTEL DESIGNER I-Jin Chew WATG Architects Singapore
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DRU AND VICE DEAN A/Prof Erik L’Heureux National University of Singapore
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THE JAPANESE FRIEND Tomohisa Miyauchi National Unioversity of Singapore
THE ENGINEER Giovanni Vigano Web Structures Singapore
THE LOCAL HERO Hun Chansan Re-Edge Architecture Phnom Penh Cambodia
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THE CK Yap Chee Keng Studio Pink Poodle National University of Singapore
THE Dietmar LEYK Future Cities Laboratory ETH Zurich, Singapore
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THE PHILOSOPHER: Dr Paolo Di Leo Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences SUTD, Singapore
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THE HISTORIAN A/Prof Dr Lai Chee Kien SUTD, Singapore
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