Year 3 - T1 (Competition Project)

Design Project: Let's Not Talk About Architecture (Group Work)

Theme: Contestation of Spaces

Site: Lucky Plaza

Group: 10

Group Members:

- Keyan (Leader)

- Esther

- Chia Fang

- Shane

- Yasmin

- JiaMin

Theme 2 – Contestation of Spaces

Singapore is a metropolis and an important city in Asia. More and more foreign talents are

seeking their ways into our land and spaces. Thus there is no escape from contestation of

spaces between the local and the foreign communities.

When our forefathers came to the shores of Singapore, they gathered at different locations and

started their own communities forming the local communities. When foreigners arrive today,

they also tend to congregate at the same community spaces of where their ancestors arriving in

Singapore built their homes. With the older generation already being ‘localised’ and with the

new generation arriving, there is a ‘difference’ and a contestation of spaces. Should this

difference be integrated or celebrated? This is not a racial issue but rather a difference in habits

and perspectives.

Foreign communities are also gathering at accessible locations in the city and they usually end

up in the comfortable air-conditioned environment of shopping malls. Should the new foreign

community be encouraged to establish and create an identity?

Site Analysis

(Types of Shops)

(Rental)

Construction drawings

(Presentation Boards)

Year 2 - T3C (Shopping Details)

Design Project: T3C - Shopping Details

The given task was to integrate our design from our concept box into the chosen site.

(Construction drawings)

(Story Board)

(Final Project Brief)

Year 2 - T3B (Luxury)

Design Project: T3B - Luxury

The give task (Part 1)

With T3a research and base drawings we were to write our own Project Brief.

The project brief must include the following:

ı Type of Store

ı Whether it is a Product or Service and what type your store provides

ı Target Customers (age group, socio-economic group/class, gender etc)

ı Opening Hours

ı Exact size of store in square metres

ı Description of the chosen site location and the key features of the location

ı Description of what your store will be like inside and the features of your design

ı The type of experience customers will have when they enter

The given task (Part 2)

After we finished writing our project brief we need to create a Concept Box.

This will be a compendium of images, objects, materials etc that help you to express your design concept.

The given task (Part 3)

Design Concept Drawings. During this stage, we collate our ideas into design drawings and concept sketches of the interior space.

Construction Drawings

Year 2 - T3A (Construction Drawings)

Design Project: T3A - Shopping Diagrams (Construction Drawings)

The given task was to produce construction drawings of our chosen site.

Year 2 - T3A (Shopping Diagrams)

Design Project: T3A - Shopping Diagrams

The given task (part 1)

Selected Raffles exchange to study

We were to perform an anthropological study of the human shopping animal.

We were asked to study and record at half hour intervals for one weekday and one weekend day:

− Approx Age & Sex of the shoppers

− How long they take to move through the space (average time)

− Map how shoppers walk through the space

− Pinpoint where the shoppers linger longest

− Identify major drawcards and/or key destinations within the space

− Map the types of stores within the space and the % of each type (eg: clothing, fast food, café, shoe store, etc)

− Identify key pathways/routes through the space

Methodology

The given task (Part 2)

After collating the data we need to choose an appropriate site for your potential store. We need to select a potential site which is between 80 & 100sqm.

(Chosen Site)

(Presentation board - data analysis)

Year 2 - T2B (Construction Drawings)

Design Project: T2B - Surreal Botany (Construction Drawings)

Year 2 - T2B (Process Method Guide)

Design Project: T2B - Surreal Botany Process Method Guide

The given task was to translate our drawings into 3D mock up models.