Singapore Archifest 2020: Call for Doodle Art
Singapore Archifest 2020 Festival Team
The Open Call for Doodle Art was conducted between 25 June to 25 August, where people of all walks of life who are art enthusiasts can contribute a black and white doodle of what the theme "Architecture Saving OUR World" meant to them. We have received a total number of 84 submissions from 79 artists! Shortlisted artworks will be showcased virtually through Singapore Archifest 2020 website and physically at Central Public Library.
Date
25 September - 29 October 2020
10:00am - 9:00pm
Price
Free
Artworks is exhibited at Central Public Library
Location
100 Victoria St, Singapore 188064
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Garden Sharing Session
Foodscape Collective
Join us at our community gardening session on Tuesdays and Saturdays morning to learn about our intentions for this Biodiverse Edible Garden at Jurong Central Park. During your visit, our gardener will be happy to share with you about the plants we're growing here, and more importantly, the insights, knowledge and community that has evolved in the process of building this garden.
This event has a limited capacity with safe distancing in place.
Date
26 September
29 September
03 October
06 October
10 October
13 October
17 October
20 October
24 October
27 October
31 October
10:00 - 10:30am, 10:30 - 11:00am every Sat and Tues
Price
Free
Biodiverse Edible Garden
Location
Jurong Central Park
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Community Design Studio – Architecture students’ Journey
etc.lab, School of Design Environment, Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Community Design Studio is an initiative of etc.lab to provide opportunities for architecture students to work with local and overseas community groups, charities, social enterprises and authorities on real life projects. These projects include design/build, architecture and interior feasibility studies and placemaking activities. For each project, the students and the community partner work together to define the project, develop a brief and undertake research and creative engagement activities to co-create solutions with the community. This studio aims to raise the awareness of the social and civic responsibilities of our future architects.
Date
25 September - 1 November 2020
11:00am - 9:00pm
Price
Free
This project is exhibited at library@orchard
Location
277 Orchard Road, Orchard Gateway, #03-12 #04-11, 238858
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Kampung Journey
Ground Up Initiative
(Ticket Required, On-Site Experience)
“A smile is the shortest distance between two people.” – Unknown
We love welcoming visitors around Ground-Up Initiative (GUI) with a smile!
This Singapore ArchiFest 2020, GUI will be sharing how our 2.6ha eco-village campus have come to be, through our Kampung Journey. Our guide will walk you through our campus and share about how the community have come together over the last 10 years to build the space that had allowed tens of thousands of people to visit for their wellbeing, connection to one another, self and with nature.
As part of Singapore ArchiFest2020, we are proud to support the following Pop-Ups as part of the journey. These will be part of the stopovers during the Kampung Journey:
1. Green Agora by Spatial Anatomy and The Shelter Company
2. Parking Day by SUTD
Come be part of this beautiful connection!
GUI is a non-profit organisation. All proceeds will help expand GUI’s work as well as renew the space. This event has a limited capacity with safe distancing in place.
Date
26 September
3 October
10 October
17 October
24 October
31 October
9:00 - 10:30am
9:00 - 10:30am
9:00 - 10:30am
9:00 - 10:30am
9:00 - 10:30am
9:00 - 10:30am
Price
$25 / pax
Ground Up Initiative
Location
91 Lor Chencharu, Singapore 769201
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Pop-up installation: A-Maze at Tanjong Pagar
Urban Redevelopment Authority
Dressed in vibrant citrus hues, A-Maze is an interactive installation that captures the eyes, piques curiosity and adds colours to our public open spaces. The installation is now decked with sketches depicting scenes of Tanjong Pagar and Chinatown. Wander in and be A-Mazed!
This project is part of URA’s efforts to create better public spaces for everyone to enjoy. Have a public space that you would like to transform? Under the Lively Places Programme, a joint initiative by URA and HDB to support better public spaces with community-led efforts, you can implement installations to enrich our public spaces.
Date
25 September onwards
Price
Free
Open space next to Tras Link Park
Location
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Myths On a Red Hill x City Sprouts Open Day
Myths on a Red Hill and City Sprouts / Supported by Zarch Collaboratives
Join us Myths On a Red Hill and City Sprouts to celebrate the interweaving of art, education, community and cultivation.
Nestled in an urban farm and built around a sprawling ficus is a Wayang Pavilion where everyday stories and narratives are interwoven. Here Myths On a Red Hill reimagines the Wayang stage as an open classroom and arts space that brings together the community through storytelling and creative modes of exchange. Together with City Sprouts, we are located in the heart of Redhill, situated at the former Henderson Secondary School which has been transformed into an urban farm and social space. City Sprouts uses urban agriculture as its backbone cultivating a place for urban rejuvenation, community and sustainable living.
Our teams will be present to share more about the transformation of the space, ground-up initiatives and how knowledge can be shared and communities built or reconnected. Join us for our drop-in sessions to weave your narrative onto the pavilion, check out what is growing in the farm and maybe grow some green thumbs!
*Note: All safety and safe-distancing measures will be adhered to. We seek your understanding and cooperation that we will be limiting the number of visitors to 5 pax per greenhouse and pavilion at any time.
Date
17 October
3:30 - 5:30pm
Price
Free
Sprout Hub
Location
102 Henderson Rd, Singapore 159562
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c o o p
do agency x Nanyang Polytechnic
c o o p is a system of architecture kit-of-parts that intents to empower individuals and communities to work together to build their own spatial needs and interventions. It encourages people to gain the ownership of making with its ease of construction. c o o p is reconfigurable and reusable. It is designed with the ability to adapt to different social, cultural and environmental contexts coupled with unique modes of operations.
Date
Ongoing
24h / open everyday
Price
Free
The Theatre Practice
Location
54 Waterloo St, Singapore 187953
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AirBamboo
AIRLAB (Architectural Intelligence Research Lab) @ SUTD
Bridging the gap between the old and the new is never easy. Traditional building methods, where the unpredictability of a natural material leads to manual adjustments, seem to contrast with the mechanical precision of modern construction. AirBamboo - a bamboo gazebo developed by AIRLAB and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) - bridges this gap.
The traditional raw bamboo poles, used extensively throughout Southeast Asia, are combined with 3D printed connectors, utilising a 2D scanning and image processing technologies. The result is an iconic, lightweight structure that promotes the use of public space, sheltering the users from both the intense sun and heavy rain.
Thanks to parametric design and realtime structural feedback, bespoke designs can be manufactured and assembled in less than two weeks, making the system suitable for disaster relieving structures.
30 minutes visits will be arranged on 4th and 11th October, including in-depth explanations about the fabrication process, challenges, and opportunities.
Date
4 October
11 October
10:30 - 11:00am
11:00 - 11:30am
11:30 - 12:00pm
12:00 - 12:30pm
Price
Free
Edible Garden City @ Queenstown
Location
60 Jln Penjara, Singapore 149375
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PARK(ing) day at Jalan Besar
Parking Day Singapore x Singapore University of Technology and Design
Watch our students and alumni transform parking lots into public places that adjusts to current extreme level of health consciousness. Visit us for a one-day-only special, to reimagine how we can live, work and play in this ‘new normal’.
This event has a limited capacity with safe distancing in place.
Date
3 October
9:00 - 300pm
Price
Free
Jalan Besar
Location
Five parking lot locations along Horne road between French and Cavan road
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Flows: The Shelter for Homeless
WY-TO x Singapore Polytechnic
In collaboration with international architectural Firm WY-TO (http://www.wy-to.com/) and School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Singapore Polytechnic, the workshop aims to tackle a little known issue of homelessness and the possibility of creating a sustainable lightweight and transportable shelter. In a recent study by Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, it was found that Chinatown has the highest number of homeless people in Singapore.
Building on WY-TO’s humanitarian efforts and communities-oriented projects as well as the first Design&Construct workshop held in Phnom Penh in 2017 for The Mobile Lotus, this workshop will tap on WY-TO’s vast experience to develop a design prototype to help the less fortunate reintegrate back to their community through spatial assimilation and programmatic empowerment in a public housing community in Chinatown.
The products generated from this workshop collaboration will be exhibited at NDC. 3 special tours are organised on Saturday 17th October and will be led by the students themeselves who designed and built FLOWS, the Shelter for Homeless.
Date
Exhibition:
10 Oct - 1 Nov
Guided Tour:
17 Oct
9:00am - 9:00pm
2:30pm - 3:15pm,
3:30pm - 4:15pm,
4:30pm - 5:15pm
Price
Free
National Design Centre, Level 2 Mezzanine
Location
111 Middle Rd, Singapore 188969
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HDB Community Farming
MU Architects
The scheme is a hypothetical concept that seeks to allow the everyday HDB dweller to have simple, straightforward, doorstep access to urban farming opportunities. It also allows for HDB communities to foster greater social cohension.
Date
Ongoing
10:00am - 5:00pm
Price
Free
Nyee Phoe (Gardenasia), Mosscape Gallery
Location
240 Neo Tiew Cres, Singapore 718898
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The Learning Village: with the Karen village community
WeCreate Studio
The Teewado Community, a Karen hill tribe, resides along the borders of Thailand and Myanmar. With a belief that education is the platform to get their next generation out of their current cycle of poverty, the community approached WeCreate Studio to build a new primary school, to replace the existing dilapidated one, in 2017. Through the community engagement design process, it was made aware that the school building is just a shell without proper access to a good learning system. As such, a more wholistic support was developed for the Teewado Community, in collaboration with multiple expertise, with the completed school as the common ground, to provide skillsets training for the local youths, teacher’s training programs, sustainable farming systems and scholarship opportunities for the current students. The design process became the mean to implement effective solutions to empower the community in stepping out of their current own struggles.
Date
25 September - 1 November 2020
11:00am - 9:00pm
Price
Free
This project is exhibited at library@orchard
Location
277 Orchard Road, Orchard Gateway, #03-12 #04-11, 238858
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Green Agora
Spatial Anatomy x The Shelter Company
Green Agora is a pavilion for community dialogue on nature, food and farming. Conceived as a living structure, the pavilion allows native plants to grow on its modular aluminium structure and steel meshes. Combining experimentation in construction and growing techniques, Green Agora embodies a new type of nature-oriented public space.
The pavilion will be exhibited at GUI.
Date
26 September
3 October
10 October
17 October
24 October
31 October
9:00 - 10:30am
9:00 - 10:30am
9:00 - 10:30am
9:00 - 10:30am
9:00 - 10:30am
9:00 - 10:30am
Price
Part of Kampung Journey
Ground Up Initiative
Location
91 Lor Chencharu, Singapore 769201
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Audacity Physical Open Studio
Audacity
Audacity (Alternative Universal Design of A City) is a playground for innovators, a collaboration between Mistletoe, a venture ecosystem builder founded by Taizo Son, and JTC. It is located within Jurong Innovation District (JID), seeking to create a humanity-centric city framework supported by technology and innovation. Audacity is a movement to catalyse a humanity-centric future supported by innovative technologies. We orchestrate amidst chaos and seek aufheben moments with our philosophy of Unlearning conventions, Unlocking innovation and Unleashing transformation. Audacity welcomes innovators who can look beyond the current technology paradigm and test hypotheses across our agenda focus areas. With inclusivity as a core value, our initiatives are guided by a values-based culture to solve issues in communities, food, energy, work, education, healthcare and urbanisation.
Audacity aims to inspire and attract like-minded people (e.g. startups, enablers, technologists, researchers, students, etc.) to form a diverse community that will generate innovative solutions for a humanity-centric city. As part of this movement, we have started several seeding projects to test our hypotheses for the future.
Join us on our monthly Virtual Open House, where we will have an online-offline experience with a virtual tour followed by guided small group visits to our onsite location the next day where you can meet our community members to learn more about our projects. These will be held on Friday (online) Session 3 3-5:30pm, and Saturday (physical) Session 3: 3-5:30pm.
Date
24 October
3:30 - 5:30pm
Price
Free
JTC LaunchPad
Location
Jurong Innovation District, 2 Cleantech Loop, Singapore 637144
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Stay Home Quilt
3Pumpkins x Tzu Chi Humanistic Youth Centre
A community participatory project that began as tribute to resilience of the common folks in March 2020 responded to Covid-19 outbreak and evolved under the lead of artist Jimmy Ong. Quilt patches were sent out to both local and migrant workers' communities to provide a source of meditative comfort as they were quarantined on stay home notices.
Exhibition: Submissions were eventually pieced together as a symbolic house structure showcased from now till December, 10am- 10pm daily.
The Open House: Held on 20 & 27 September and 4 & 11 October from 1pm - 6pm.
Tikar Weaving Workshop : Co-create a floor mat for this participatory project that carries the many different notions of home. Tikar weaving workshop takes place from 4pm - 6pm on the Sundays. Click on the button to register.
Date
Exhibition:
Till December
Open House:
20, 27 Sep
4, 11 October
Workshop:
Every Sunday
10:00am - 10:00pm
1:00 - 6:00pm
1:00 - 6:00pm
4:00 - 6:00pm
Price
Pay as you wish
Tzu Chi Humanistic Youth Centre
Location
30A Yishun Central 1, S768796
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The Edible Garden City Tour: the Queenstown Farm
Edible Garden City
Take a peek behind the scenes of Singapore's burgeoning urban farming scene, with a visit and a tour around Edible Garden City's Queenstown Farm!
The social enterprise is dedicated to creating social change through community-centric agriculture, and since 2012 have built more than 240 edible gardens all around Singapore. They are a diverse group of local farmers, with the common goal of helping cities become more self-sufficient. They believe that growing our own food connects us with nature and cultivates a sense of community.
This event has a limited capacity with safe distancing in place.
Date
31 October
9:30 - 10:30am
11:00 - 12:00pm
4:30 - 5:30 pm
Price
$45/pax , limited to 5 pax per time slot
Edible Garden City @ Queenstown
Location
60 Jln Penjara, Singapore 149375
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Knitted Architectural Assemblies
Dynamics Assemblies Lab
Dynamic Assemblies Lab (DAL) presents three projects made possible by computer numerical control (CNC) knitting. Knit Tensegrity Shell, Knit Patterned Flow Pavilion and Living Forms explore three strategies for employing bespoke knitted membranes for architectural assemblies.
Knit Tensegrity Shell uses a continuous elastic membrane that can be tensioned to form a shell-like structure; Knit Patterned Flow has discrete textile panels with different elasticities to interact with elastic rods; Living Forms adopts the knit as a volumetric permeable membrane to bind with cultivated mycelium as a bio-composite.
Knit Patterned Flow Pavilion will be exhibited at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) in the open arena between D Star Cafe & DBS.
Knit Tensegrity Shell and Living Forms will be exhibited at Edible Garden City. 30 minutes visits will be arranged on 4th and 11th October, including in-depth explanations about the fabrication process, challenges, and opportunities.
Date
4 October
11 October
10:30 - 11:00am
11:00 - 11:30am
11:30 - 12:00pm
12:00 - 12:30pm
Price
Free
Multiple locations
Location
Edible Garden City | 60 Jln Penjara, Singapore 149375
SUTD | 8 Somapah Road Singapore 487372
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PARK(ing) day at Jurong
Parking Day Singapore x Bold At Work
What if you were called to be bold?
Watch our bold tribe take over and transform four parking lots, led by their imaginations and curiosities. Join us for a one-evening-only special and reimagine how we can live, work and play in the ‘new normal’ in our quaint neighborhood Jurong.
This event has a limited capacity with safe distancing in place.
Curated by Bold At Work, sponsored by Loving Heart and Southwest CDC
Date
3 October
4:00 - 8:00pm
Price
Free
Bold@Work
Location
Blk 319 Jurong East St 31
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FREESTYLE Exhibtion
RIBA
Royal Institute of British Architects is delighted to bring a virtual version of our FREESTYLE exhibition, created by architectural designer Space Popular. It explores pivotal moments in the evolution of architectural styles over the past 500 years and its relationship to the growth of mass media. Drawing on RIBA's collections, Space Popular uses virtual reality (VR) to examine architectural styles of the past - from the Renaissance to postmodernism - while considering technology's impact on contemporary buildings and spaces.
Hosted in a social VR platform, the virtual exhibition allows visitors to access and engage with the display remotely.
No prior knowledge of the virtual platform is required.
Please note the following to optimise your overall user experience:
· Ethernet connection preferred over WIFI
· Desktop/laptop access preferred over a mobile device
This exhibition is supported by the UK's Department for International Trade and made possible through public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Date
Going Live on 25 Sep
Price
Free
Silver Sponsor
Supported By
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The World’s Second-Tallest Building
Karl Fender, Fender Katsalidis Architects
Watch the video interview with Karl Fender, the founding partner of Fender Katsalidis Architects, Australia, to find out more about the design and construction processes behind the world’s second-tallest building, Merdeka 118.
Fender Katsalidis Architects has been using Archicad for more than two decades. Their most significant design to-date is what will be the second-tallest skyscraper in the world when completed in 2021. Located in a neighbourhood with great historical significance, Merdeka 118 is sited adjacent to the Merdeka Stadium in Malaysia, from where Tunku Abdul Rahman proclaimed Malaysia’s independence from Britain in 1957. Merdeka means ‘independent’ in the Malay language and Merdeka 118 will be the centrepiece of the city, which already boasts of the 452-metre Petronas Twin Towers and the 421-metre Kuala Lumpur Tower.
Fender Katsalidis describes the Merdeka 118 building’s faceted design as “an expression of its structural pathways, resulting in a pattern of triangular shapes reminiscent of those found in traditional Malaysian arts and crafts”. This exterior design language continues into the soaring atrium volumes of the dramatic podium interior. The faceted facade serves a practical function too as it will help to break down wind pressures on the tall building.
Click here for more information on Archicad which was used by Fender Katsalidis Architects to design the Merdeka 118 building.
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Bronze Sponsor
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Audacity Virtual Open Studio
Audacity
Audacity (Alternative Universal Design of A City) is a playground for innovators, a collaboration between Mistletoe, a venture ecosystem builder founded by Taizo Son, and JTC. It is located within Jurong Innovation District (JID), seeking to create a humanity-centric city framework supported by technology and innovation. Audacity is a movement to catalyse a humanity-centric future supported by innovative technologies. We orchestrate amidst chaos and seek aufheben moments with our philosophy of Unlearning conventions, Unlocking innovation and Unleashing transformation. Audacity welcomes innovators who can look beyond the current technology paradigm and test hypotheses across our agenda focus areas. With inclusivity as a core value, our initiatives are guided by a values-based culture to solve issues in communities, food, energy, work, education, healthcare and urbanisation.
Audacity aims to inspire and attract like-minded people (e.g. startups, enablers, technologists, researchers, students, etc.) to form a diverse community that will generate innovative solutions for a humanity-centric city. As part of this movement, we have started several seeding projects to test our hypotheses for the future.
Join us on our monthly Virtual Open House, where we will have an online-offline experience with a virtual tour followed by guided small group visits to our onsite location the next day where you can meet our community members to learn more about our projects. These will be held on Friday (online) Session 3 3-5:30pm, and Saturday (physical) Session 3: 3-5:30pm.
Date
23 October
2:00 - 4:00pm
Price
Free
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Field Trip to Red Hill ( Archifest 2020 Edition)
Myths On A Red Hill (MOARH) and Design Singapore Associates in collaboration with City Sprouts - supported by Zarch Collaboratives and DesignSingapore
Join us as we embark on our virtual Field Trip to Redhill (Archifest 2020 Edition), uncovering design secrets, green thumbs, and stories hidden beneath its vernacular! Through a mix of guided and spontaneous wanderings, we hope to uncover the design of everyday life and our shared community spaces in this bizarre, fun and collective manner—revealing the uncommon beauty of common things around us. Let’s look beyond the familiar sights to (re)think and (re)imagine how we can engage and empower our communities!
Date
24 October
10:00 - 12:00pm
Price
Free
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Kopi Talk on Loveability
Participate In Design
What do you love about Singapore? What will make you love Singapore more?
Brew your kopi or teh and come have a chat with us and other fellow residents about your feelings for Singapore. We want to listen to your stories, memories and experiences, what you do in the name of love for the city, and what it is that you really find loveable or unloveable about Singapore.
Come with an open mind as we share our sentiments with one another. In the first run of this Kopi Talk session, as part of the initiative of Singapore Archifest 2020, we explore the theme of loveable and liveable spaces and places.
Date
31 October
10:00 - 12:00pm
Price
Free
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Baelf Webinar
ZARCH Collaboratives
In our talk “Architectural Approaches in Fashion Design”, Baëlf Design will be focusing on their experience working with new paradigms of digital tools in their practice.
Within an infinite solution space of creative ideas, it is an immense task for the designer to pick the optimal solution within realistic project constraints. How can computational design tools (such as parametric modelling, machine learning and AI optimisation) which have been traditionally the mainstay of architectural practice, be used in the new context of fashion design, where we treat the human body not as a canvas, but as a topological landscape to build upon, or as a structure on which we lay our façade? How does a designer’s role and expectations evolve in this new age of tectonic dominance?
Initial context of this session will be established with an overview of our past projects and processes, which will be followed by showcases of how the adoption of new techniques propelled the evolution of our work and the definition of a new fashion aesthetic. At theconclusion of the session we hope participants will depart with a deeper understanding of how the leverage offered by computational design tools from the architectural domain can spur fresh new perspectives and instigate the development of a whole new branch of fashion design approaches.
Date
18 October
3:30 - 5:30pm
Price
Free
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KNOCKNOCK: Conversation
Shophouse & Co.
Shophouse & Co invites you to participate in an interactive virtual conversation to share, discuss and innovate how we build relationships with our neighbours and become stronger communities!
Lets chat about:
- The importance of strong relationships with our neighbours
- Activities that we can do with our neighbours
- Resources & tools from the KNOCKNOCK: Playbook to help us be better neighbours
Date
3 October
10:00 - 11:00am
Price
Free
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Microlibrary Warak Kayu Virtual Tour
SHAU, Harvey Center, Kayu Lapis Indonesia
Join Florian and Daliana -founders of @shauarchitects based in Bandung & Rotterdam- together with Harvey Center -social community in Semarang- on a virtual tour of Microlibrary Warak Kayu. The design has recently received an Architizer A+ Award 2020. Of course we would like you to visit in person, but due to travel restrictions, join online instead! We will take you inside and you may request to see a detail or an angle you like. Microlibrary Warak Kayu is fully constructed from prefabricated wood harvested from sustainable forestry. It is designed around passive climatic design aspects. With enough diffused daylight for reading and no air conditioning needed, energy is saved. The façade is inspired by a 1920s German method Zollinger Bauweise with its distinctive diamond pattern. The library volume is elevated, like a traditional house on stilts, freeing the space underneath for multiple activities on the seating tribune. For kids, there is a wooden swing. It is part of the microlibraries series aimed to increase reading interest for low-income neighbourhoods. The ticket sales will be donated to the community.
Date
14 October
3:30 - 4:30pm (SGT Time) /
2:30 - 3:30pm (WIT Time)
Price
Free or USD$10 (Donation)
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Archifest Films
The Projector
This year's lineup of films:
- Columbus
- Rediscovery ( Genopdagelsen)
- Talking about Trees
- The World Before Your Feet
- Tomorrow ( Demain)
- What It Takes to Make A Home
- Architecture of Infinity (Sponsor: Swiss Embassy)
Date
25 September - 17 October
Price
Refer to Ticketing
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