Forest
View
Sector
Private High-Rise Residential
Location
Sembawang, Singapore
Year
2021
Design Team
Valerie Wong kailing, Liw Huixuan, Bunag Ramela Joey Delen, Siti Nurzawanah Binti Jusni
Competition
IBDC 2021
Achievement
Merit (Top 8)
SITE CHOSEN : ALONG SEMBAWANG WAY
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Facilities caters for an intergenerational community
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- Mixed facilities for adults, children and eldery folks
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-future integrated hub ?
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Hence, a family friendly site.
Site encourages public and active transport
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-close proximity to sembawang mrt, 4 bus stops and has 3 vehicular access points.
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-potential vehicular circulation at East. Pedestrian entrance at North and East.
FACILITIES
TRANSPORT NODE
ISSUE
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With pandemic, citizens have to be prepared to stay at home for long periods of time. Tension between members may arise, straining their relationships. A desire to have solitude would be harder to satisfy when they are stuck at home together at the same time, another may wish for the comfort of human touch by being with close ones.
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DESIGN INTENT
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Our project aims to ignite multi-generational community spirit through
interconnections that drives chance encounters.
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STRATEGIES
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-Co-housing- social sustainability
-Biophilic Architecture
SPLITTING
STACKING
STAGGERING
STAGGERING
Maximising unit layout while creating overlapping volumes of connectivity to drive chance encounters.
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[TOWER ONE] One bedroom units
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-catered for the elderly
-an immediate communal space to facilitate users
leisure time activities.
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[TOWER TWO] Four to Five bedroom units
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-Incorporating executive maisonette units to support
Singapore's multi-generational living.
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[TOWER THREE]
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Mixed used tower(1,2,4,5 and maisonette units)
a tower to allow the aging population
independence and to age-in-place witht he support
of the community.
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PPVC JOINERY DETAIL
& CONSTRUCTION
We got the chance to apply the PPVC knowledge learnt in class, to be put into this project. From the detailing to working out its construction sequence, it has deepened our understanding of certain things that are not taught in class. The exploded diagrams illustrates the details of each PPVC unit as well as its construction sequence for different no. of bedroom units.
Robot Structural Analysis
Revit & Enscape
Naviswork
SUSTAINABILITY TO ENVIRONMENT RESPONSE
Software skills learnt :
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-Revit & enscape to simulate daylight analysis.
-Robot Structural Analysis to stimulate wind to test the stability of structure.
-Navisworks for multi-storey carpark clash detection.
Sustainable façade:
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- Green modular panels
- Bult in Photovoltaic Panels
- Timber louvres
This was my first attempt
at making a video render
of a building walkthrough.
There are imperfections
to be polished and I am
still learning. This was
produced using Twinmotion
and post production editing
was done in Adobe Premiere Pro.