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Themed “to gather: The Architecture of Relationships”, the Singapore Pavilion of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia examines how to make the built environment and spaces more sustainable, resilient, and safer. It features sixteen projects that represent the cross-section of local cultures and society, bringing to the global audience a uniquely Singaporean style of gathering and living together
Through augmented reality, our exhibition invites visitors to immerse themselves in a series of hypothetical urban realities, and encourages the public to re-imagine the concept of “togetherness”, of both the physical and the virtual, and in the present and the future. We would also like to show how a new sharing city could be envisioned as an alternative approach to addressing various urban challenges in Singapore, creating a whole new urban landscape that enables us to reinvent ourselves together towards great sustainability. |
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Singapore Architectural Festival began in 2007 as an annual festival for the city to celebrate architecture and the built environment. This festival celebrates the importance of architecture in place-making. The 2020 Singapore Archifest is themed Architecture Saving Our World. The theme is not about grand architecture or the magnificence of architecture, but new ideas and responsible designs that benefit our ecology and humanity – climate change, public health, social equity and cultural continuity.
Four projects from the NUS-Tsinghua Design Research Initiative were invited to participate in the virtual exhibition (due to Covid-19 pandemic), together with other efforts rethinking and reimagining our urban landscape that can better contribute to ecology and local production towards greater resilience and sustainability. |
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The UIA (International Union of Architects) convenes the World Congress of Architects every three years, a forum that brings together thousands of architects from around the world for professional and cultural exchange. UIA 2017 congress was held in Seoul, South Korea. The main theme is "Soul of City", which aims to seek meaningful and diversified urban environments to life through the convergence of culture, nature and future.
Together with top architecture schools from different continents, NUS-Tsinghua Design Research Initiative was invited to represent Asia to participate in the UIA Seoul International Studio, themed Resilient Cities through Culture. The studio outcomes were exhibited in the UIA Congress and shared in the Young Architects Forum. |
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