The month-long festival will see its main activities happening at the festival hubs at the National Library Building and National Museum of Singapore.
ArchiFest’10 is hosting an international forum on HAPPY CITIES with speakers from Australia, Denmark, Japan, Malaysia, Norway, Singapore, Thailand and The Netherlands.
Architects and urban planners are invited to share their perspectives on the places that best depict the notion of HAPPY CITIES, and share how and why these places have influenced their work. They will question how their creative perspectives and analyses of the topic can turn them into active contributors to this state of well-being.
The Architect Regional Council Asia (ARCASIA) is an organisation of seventeen National Institutes of Architects from the Asian region; it serves as a professional platform for Asian architects aiming to foster relations and regional programmes between its member countries. Its Council, composed of the Presidents of the respective national institutes, deliberates and gives collective directions to matters affecting the architectural profession in Asia.
For several decades, ARCASIA has worked to strengthen intellectual, artistic, educational and scientific ties between architects in the region, and actively promoted the recognition of the architect’s role in society.
ArchiFest’10 showcases ARCASIA’s projects from Hong Kong, Malaysia and Pakistan; highlighting, among other topics, sustainable urban living spaces and projects rooted in vernacular architecture.
The Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) and Hunter Douglas Singapore invited members of the Institute to use their imagination in a competition for the most creative use of Hunter Douglas products. In Singapore and worldwide, very creative and unusually attractive installations of Hunter Douglas products have been achieved due to the versatility and quality of products.
Eco Friend
An environmentally-friendly design that highlights the creative use of any sustainable building and architectural products. This category highlights the creative use of sustainable products as building materials, but not necessarily confined to the use of Hunter Douglas products.
Completed Project
A project that makes use of one or more products from Hunter Douglas products in a creative and original fashion.
Green roofs, vertical greenery and gardens in the sky – skyrise greenery is greenery integrated into built-forms in the city. It has increasingly become an important component of sustainable urban development in the 21st century.
National Parks Board and Singapore Institute of Architects are excited to announce the Skyrise Greenery Awards 2010. Now into its third year, the Awards aim to promote and recognise the greening of high-rise developments through the joint efforts of owners/developers, architects, landscape architects/designers and landscape contract managers. The Skyrise Greenery Awards recognise excellence in two categories:
- Completed Projects
- Ideas/Unbuilt Works
Award winners will be announced on 1 November 2010 at the International Skyrise Greenery Conference 2010
The aim of Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) Architectural Design Awards is to recognise the efforts of SIA members in their pursuit of architectural excellence and innovative architectural solutions. It also aims to increase the appreciation and patronage of good architectural design from both within and without the construction industry.
Beyond fulfilling functional requirements, there appears to be an increasing awareness of how quality design can make real and significant differences to the built environment and the lives of the users. The increasing demand for good design sends a clear and strong signal as to what will be expected of the profession as a whole.
The SIA Architectural Design Awards focuses on 6 categories represented in the exhibition:
“We are very pleased to have received over 180 submissions in this 10th cycle. It is an encouraging sign that a large number of entries came from relatively young practices. Overall, the standard of the submission was high which augurs well for the profession. Many of these winning projects will be featured in ArchiTours, one of ArchiFest’s flagship events.”
Mr Ashvinkumar, SIA President
20 Oct - 3 Nov 2010
National Museum of Singapore
This exhibition spans a wide range: From the University Centre at Svalbard and the new Biblotheca Alexandrina to the annex for a summerhouse by Lindesnes and the new bridge at Svinesund that connects Norway to Europe. The fifty buildings presented here have been selected by a professional jury as the best examples of Norwegian Architecture from the period 2000-2005.
Contemporary Norwegian Architecture 2000-2005 is the sixth in a series of exhibitions, formerly produced by the Norwegian Museum of Architecture, now by the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design. The catalogue is provided by the architectural magazine Byggekunst. Together, these exhibitions and catalogues give a fascinating overview where one can study stylistic developments, changing building tasks and new solutions.
Thematically, this exhibition is divided into the following five categories: Transformation, Form and Function, Symbol and Identity, Materials and Constructions, and Contrasts and Proximity.
Singapore-ETH Centre@Archifest
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) will exhibit the outcome of the Urban Design Research Studio that was initiated in collaboration with the National University of Singapore as the kick-off event of the Future Cities Laboratory of the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC). Aim of this workshop was to develop various conceptual and spatial transformation strategies for the Rochor area.
The outcome of the workshop will be showcased from October 19 - November 3, 2010 at the National Museum of Singapore in the frame of the ArchiFest. swissnex Singapore is proud to support ETH Zurich in the organization of this event.
22 Oct – 9 Nov 2010
9am – 6pm
National University of Singapore,
School of Design & Environment
Entrance Foyer (SDE3, level 2),
4 Architecture Drive
Burble Bubbles, part of Archifest 2010, is a new media installation of public display for sharing of thoughts spanning physical and virtual space, whether you are physically in or out of Singapore. It collects the hidden thoughts of passers-by and virtual users allowing everyone to see the collective aspirations for Singapore’s built environment. Contribute and respond to messages. See the threaded messages being dynamically displayed. Send a digital message in front of the installation or participate via 3D virtual space (Second Life) or 2D social media (Twitter).
Share your wishes for
“What Makes a Happy city?”
Come down to NUS School of Design & Environment Entrance Foyer OR visit the virtual installation at National University of Singapore (NUS) Second Life to send or read your messages. Or tweet your message to @BurbleBubbles
At the end of the exhibition, all messages collected will be sent to URA.
This installation is created by the Ambient Intelligence Lab of Interactive and Digital Media Institute, and Department of Architecture of the National University of Singapore and supported by NUS Computer Centre. Team members are Tan Beng Kiang, Yeom Jungho, Tal Goldenberg, Mehul Motani, Ingwar, John Yap and Lawrence Wong.
Contact the Burble Bubbles Team at burblebubbles2010@gmail.com or on Facebook.
24 Oct - 6 Nov 2010
7am to 11pm
Bras Basah MRT Station
The theme of this year's Archifest - Happy Cities, explores how cities can be engines of happiness, examining different definition of sense of place and spaces, to challenge conventional notions of sustainable urban living. The fabric of a city can be read as a collage of experiences; a collective experience of physical forms and spaces as well as intangible senses, emotions, relationships and connectivity. The Object when given meaning starts to impact its environment and its occupants in intangible ways.
"...suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: "This is beautiful." That is Architecture. Art enters in." - Le Corbusier
OBJECTS showcases the tactile works of students from Singapore Polytechnic Design School (Diploma of Interior Design), where refreshing ways of experiencing our built environment are investigated. Through examination of materiality and texture, this exhibition shows how tectonic qualities can possibly change the way we perceive spaces, interact and ultimately how we feel.
OBJECTS features a collection of curios explored by interior design students, with techniques such as mapping, modulating and repetition, complex structures are fabricated, given purpose, meaning and even generate emotions.
Join us in our venture towards comprehending the art of urban joy. Start your experience of the happy city here by creating your own tactile work with our pencil rubbing template.
Share your tactile creations, idea of happy cities and images of this exhibition on Facebook
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