NUS-Tsinghua Joint Studio: Sharing Cities | 2019 | NUS Studio
Sharing Modernist Complex
A few large-scale, mixed-use modernist buildings constructed in early 70s, exemplified by Golden Mile Complex and People's Park Complex, are of great historical and architectural significance to the city-state of Singapore. Heavily influenced by the Brutalism and Metabolism and completely designed by Singaporean architects, these innovative megastructures provided timely and liveable solutions to the then increasingly dense urban centres, transforming downtown Singapore from a landscape of shophouses to modern high-rise complex buildings. They therefore marked a turning point of the nation building of Singapore. To date, however, none of these modernist buildings has received any official conservation statues. Many are at risk of collective sale and demolition due to debts and financial problems with maintenance. Against this background, this studio attempts to search for an alternative, exploring whether the emerging sharing practices in the city can help to ameliorate the difficult situation that these megastructures are facing, and if so, in which ways appropriate design interventions can help to better accommodate and facilitate sharing practices and at the same time continue the identity and sense of place associated with these modernist buildings.
Golden Mile Complex
- Site analysis, sharing systems and masterplan
- Detailed design schemes: 1) Inter-change; 2) Co-home; 3) City Forest; 4) Urban Kitchen; 5) Pod Sharing
People's Park Complex
- Site analysis, sharing systems and masterplan
- Detailed design schemes: 1) Sharing Market; 2) Sharing Culture; 3) Sharing Lifestyle; 4) Sharing Food; 5) Sharing Goods and Wastes