Zhou Wentao Thesis Design Journal

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Introduction

Chapter iii: intervention

Chapter i: Information

Chapter iv: design journal

Chapter ii: investigation

Appendices

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

acknowledgement


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I. INFORMATION


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The debut of Tiger Balm Garden (1937 1942)

Dragon World (1990 - 2001)

Japanese Occupation (1942 - 1945) Aw Cheng Chye Period (1954 - 1979) Short Life of Hua Song Museum (华颂馆) (2006 - 2012)

Reconstruction after the War (1945 1954)

Singapore Tourism Promotion Board (1979 - 1990)

"Hell Museum" (2015 - )


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A physical manifest of Aw boon haw's personality and legacy

An Example of adapted Chinese garden

A recorder of historical events


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A repository culture

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Chinese

folklore

A unique creation at the confluence of multitudes of influence

A nostalgic site for local residents

A unique district along the greater southern waterfront


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II. INVESTIGATION


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change of site boundaries

1. [Original Haw Par Villa Boundary 1937-1988]

2. [Dragon World Boundary 1988-2001]

3. [Current Boundary 2001-now]


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Stage 1: 1937 – 1940s

Signature Garden

Mansion

Faminy Swimming Pool before War

Drained Pool filled with creatures after war

Family Aquarium with Pagoda

Drained Aquarium filled with creatures

❷ ❶ ❶ Tier 1: Family Garage and Parking ❷ Tier 2: Family Aquarium

❸ Tier 3: Family Swimming Pool , Changing Rooms and Tennis Court ❹ Tier 4: Mansion and Signature Park

Garage


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Stage 1: 1937 – 1940s


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Stage 2: 1940s - 1950


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Stage 3: 1951 - 1954


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Stage 4: 1954-1979


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Stage 5: 1989 - now


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Return to the original haw par villa Naked Spider spirit

Aw boon haw Sidelined


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Posthumous recognition

International Corners Family Aquarium

Entrance to the Family Aquarium Parents Memorial and Villa Gateway

Signature Garden

Yi Cui Archway Changing Room

Spider Spirit in the Journey to West


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Impact of colour on the visitors

[Current Haw Par Villa] The top of the rockery cave was painted bright blue, followed by main body of rockery mountains painted orange and mint green. The ground is again covered with reddish floor finishes, faded into reddish brown. The color scheme is further complicated by the introduction of various tones for each of the hues. Each hue is adopting a high saturation, high brightness tone, completing for attention.

[Past Haw Par Villa] The main body of the object was of monochromatic grey. Some touch of red orange is added as the roof of the gateway. The rockery at the side of the road was painted with red and orange. Again, the pavement used monochromatic lighter grey tiles.

[Current Haw Par Villa] The main body is painted vivid teal surrounded with lush greenery. The ground was painted with red, but over time, it faded into brownish color.

[Past Haw Par Villa] A background of high-rising memorial of white terrazzo material. The main body of the gateway is of dark grey color against a light brownish rockery. The lush greenery stay relative short, making the memorial prominent. The pavement uses monochromatic grey floor finishes.


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Learning points for haw par villa

[Humble Administrator's Garden, Suzhou] Black or dark cool grey colors are used for roof tiles, covering the white wall and chestnut brown wooden structure below. The floors uses monochromatic grey floor tiles, decorated with natural rockeries of grey or amber colour. The extensive adoption of monochromatic colors of black, white, and grey creates a solemn atmosphere, while the chestnut brown colour adds warm human touches to it.

[Katsura Imperial Villa, Kyoto] Katsura similarly adopted a dark grey roof, with black columns and white walls underneath it. Chestnut brow wooden panels are inserted at specific locations. The garden has been filled with lush greenery of varying heights. The floor uses grey stone and cobblestones, also decorated with greyish rockeries, with moss grown on top.

[The Forbidden City, Beijing] Unlike the traditional Chinese garden in the Jiangnan regions, the imperial palace such as the Forbidden City, uses the imperial orange colour for the roof. Walls have been treated as red. Building structures are supported with white marble platform and cool grey floor tiles.

[Fushimi Inari-taisha, Kyoto] Bold color of vermilion has been applied to the main body of the rows of torii. Yet, it can be observed that both ends of the torii is capped with black colours. The ground uses grey stone pavement.


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Illusion of depth

A

[Swimming Pool Changing Room] The changing room is decorated with 18 tableaux. On top of it, miniature landscape elements were decorated such as rockeries, mansions and pagoda.

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[Seven-Tiered Pagoda] The sever-tiered pagoda stood in the family aquarium.

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B


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Chinese literati garden RIGHT: PLAN

网师园

FURTHER RIGHT TOP: TECHNIQUE 3 FURTHER RIGHT BOTTOM: TECHNIQUE 2 BOTTOM: TECHNIQUE 1


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Traditional Japanese garden

RIGHT TOP: VIEW FROM SUHAMA TOWARDS SHOIKEN THROUGH ROWS OF BRIDGES RIGHT BOTTOM: VIEW FROM GEPPARO TO SHOKINTEI


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THE PRINCIPLE OF CHINESE GARDEN

TOPOGRAPHICAL STUDIES OF HAW PAR VILLA


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AUTHORSHIP AND PERSONALITY OF AW BOON HAW EXPRESSED IN THE GARDEN

Heroism and salvation

Entrepreneurship


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Buddhism and Confucianism Affection towards the ordinary


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Basis

Confession of his business-centric • thinking

The bottom line of sustaining profit “Unwise to even donate the • seeds”

Behaviours

Haw Par Villa as Physical Advertisement

Display strong social networking with celebrities through archways, memorials etc.

Buddhism: family tradition and • good companion to Confucianism

Experience of living with ordinary people during his teenage

Confucianism: influence from classical novels and teachings

Enjoyed interaction with hawkers

Editorial in 1947 cautioned against corruption and fall of the nation

Emphasis on Buddhism and Confucianism

Heroism and Salvation

Entrepreneurship

Mental Models

Song Jiang as his exemplary moral model. “delivering justice on Heaven’s behalf”

Introducing tableaux of moral stories in order to help his fellow Chinese to be self-supporting

Display strong authorship (signature garden and symbols of Haw and Par)

The themes of tableaux are centred on Buddhism and Confucianism teaching

Affection towards ordinary people

Adoption of folklore style of garden design, in stark contrast with traditional literati garden.


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3 Explore the story behind each tableau 1 Hunt for the novelty and uncanny. 4 Look for their past memory.

2 Seek space for social gathering.

6 Connects the artefacts historical happenings

5 Probe into the historical alterations and change of owners.

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Haw Par Villa as a strategic node

BELOW: OVERVIEW OF GARET SOUTHERN WATERFRONT RIGHT: IDEA ONE AND TWO NEXT PAGE: IDEA THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX (URA, "GREATER SOUTHERN WATERFRONT")

The size of the Greater Southern Waterfront gives us opportunities to create many differentiated waterfront districts, each with unique characters and experiences. Currently under development are the Bayfront and Marina Central areas, which are located next to the CBD. Marina South will also be launched for development in a few years' time. Elsewhere, plans for the remaining areas, including Labrador, Tanjong Pagar and Pulau Brani, will continue to be explored and refined before they are implemented in the longer term.

Greater Southern Waterfront The planned relocation of the City Terminals and Pasir Panjang Terminal to Tuas will free up 325 and 600 hectares of waterfront land respectively. With the first set of berths at Tuas Port to be operational by 2025, the downtown and southern port area will eventually be phased out. This area is known as the Greater Southern Waterfront. With about 1,000 hectares of land – an area three times the size of Marina Bay up for development in the Greater Southern Waterfront after 2030, the landscape we can paint is limited only by our imagination. As we stand at the threshold of a new chapter in our city’s development, we would like to share six broad ideas for the Greater Southern Waterfront with you. The possibilities are immense and we would like to hear your ideas for our waterfront of the future.

The Greater Southern Waterfront represents an opportunity to create a new waterfront city that is integrated with both our downtown and the surrounding housing and businesses near the city. The Greater Southern Waterfront could be built up for new housing, commercial, cultural and entertainment uses, cementing Singapore's growing reputation as a world-class city for its people to live, work and play.


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With so many places of interest dotting Greater Southern Waterfront, a continuous corridor to connect them all would open fresh possibilities for a leisurely day out. Can you imagine a continuous, uninterrupted 30 km-long waterfront for walking, running and cycling? One could make stops at Labrador, Harbourfront, and the International Cruise Terminal on the way Gardens by the Bay at Marina South for unique and varied waterfront experiences.

What's a great city without great public spaces? The Central Linear Park in Marina Bay can be extended into Greater Southern Waterfront. Opportunities for people to stroll, run and take in new city sights along the extended all the way from the current Marina Bay Promontory to the waters of Keppel Channel that overlook Pulau Brani in the distance. Another possibility is to create a new pedestrian axis which branches diagonally out from the Central Linear Park, further increasing the network of public spaces through future new city districts. This new axis could be designated as a car-free zone, thereby creating opportunities for vibrant street life.

To promote biodiversity and augment the green network in the densely built-up city, existing green spaces such as Labrador Park, Berlayer Creek and Mount Faber could be linked to Pulau Brani’s existing hillock through a green corridor. At the same time, a proposed eco-corridor could provide an unbroken ecological connection that links Gardens by the Bay to the island-wide green network, including the Rail Corridor and Southern Ridges. Inviting public spaces for community interaction, activities and events will be embedded in this corridor. Our reservoirs not only form a key component of Singapore's plan to achieve water self-sufficiency, but also provide picturesque settings for a range of outdoor recreational activities. A new reservoir could be created between Tanjong Pagar and Pulau Brani to retain rainwater at the Greater Southern Waterfront and store excess water from the Marina Reservoir that is currently discharged into the sea. This possible future Southern Reservoir would increase our local water supply and will also allow for the creation of an attractive network of canals through neighbourhoods with lively streetscapes. The canals themselves will be the connections to other destinations within the Greater Southern Waterfront.


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Shoes on the Danube Promenade hinting absence

Nelson mandela capture site sculpture

10 December 1999 – 25 March 2000 Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist Sir John Soane’s Museum, London

RETRACE YOUR STEPS: REMEMBER TOMORROW Mihai Eminescu, from Onesti town, Romania

Glass Video Gallery by Tschumi

The Kitchen Show, 1991


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III. INTERVENTION


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Creating a journey experiences

of

diversified

ATMOSPHERE

INTERPRETATION

OBJECTS

ARCHITECTURE

LANDSCAPE

Zone 1

Zone 2

JOURNEY OF EXPLORATION

Zone X


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Entrance

Absence of the villa Tiger grotto

Literati Gateway


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Parents memorial

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literati garden

Pagoda Aquarium

International corner


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IV. DESIGN JOURNAL


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Books

Online Resources

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Thesis and Dissertation • •

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Periodicals and Conference Paper • •

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