Food is a cherished element in Singaporean culture. But due to limited land—with only 1 per cent available for production1—the city-state currently imports almost 90 per cent of its food. To improve food security and resiliency, Singapore has an ambitious goal to locally produce 30 per cent of its nutritional needs by 2030. The current […]
Read More… from Agropolis: Achieving Food Resiliency Through Urban Agriculture | FAP 2022 Merit
Jakarta is “the city where nobody wants to walk”, wrote the team behind this proposal. In the bustling metropolitan, home to 10.5 million people, the arterial roads are in a state of perpetual congestion due to the high volume of private vehicles. Despite being the world’s fourth most populous nation, Indonesia ranked last in a […]
Read More… from Footsteps of Imagination: Pedestrian Bridges as ‘Greenerators’ | FAP 2022 Merit
Jakarta’s commercial blocks were conceived to strategically aid the city’s commercial development. However, over time, their resilience—by nature of their development—has been affected by factors such as the changing nature of socio-cultural influences, urban regulations and land values; as well as the inability to adapt that has led them to become inactive spaces in the […]
Read More… from FluxToActive: Resolving A Permanent Problem | FAP 2022 Merit
According to the team’s research, residents in Hanoi contribute an average of 7,000 tonnes of waste a day, including organic and inorganic waste, as well as recyclable garbage. Averagely, 6 per cent of the 414 tonnes of inorganic waste is not recyclable and thus buried—the rest of the waste can be processed and reused as […]
Read More… from Revival Waste: Propagating Permaculture | FAP 2022 Third Place
Located in the north of Indonesia’s capital of Jakarta, the ambitious plans for Kemayoran Airport did not pan out for various reasons, leaving the once glistening structure abandoned. A portrayal of disintegrated city development, dozens of unfinished projects were left scattered around the area and deserted lands have grown into a wild urban forest. Over […]
Read More… from Biodivercity: A Story of Flight | FAP 2022 Second Place
This speculative project attempts to transform a leprosarium into a ‘vivarium’, envisioned and presented as a chronographic blueprint to redefine the paradigm of heritage conservation through a time-based approach. The designs introduced can be seen as a series of adaptive reuse that adopts the notion of reversible architecture, ‘shearing’ layers of buildings for a long-term […]
Read More… from A Chronographic Blueprint: Reinstating the Valley of Hope | FAP 2022 First Place
How can students, researchers and practitioners of architecture harness new-age technology to address real-world application pain points? Student projects often explore abstract, even utopian ideas at the levels of philosophy, form and functionality. This is based on what we are encouraged to do in architecture school—to push the envelope with regards to the meaning of […]
Spanning 140 hectares in the middle of a densely built-up district in South Jakarta, Ragunan Zoo is one of the city’s oldest and most popular family attractions with an affordable ticket price of around USD0.25 per person, which has not been increased for many years. Pre-pandemic, the holiday season would see a record of 196,000 […]
Read More… from Ragunan Bio Park: A Nature-based update of Indonesia’s oldest zoo
FuturArc Prize (FAP) 2022: Reinterpretation asked students to reinterpret existing corporate/private/state-owned entities in Asia to transform them into civic/public spaces that give back to the community and are good, inviting, safe and sustainable. The following is FuturArc‘s round-table session with the jurors to get their more candid comments and feedback on the competition’s theme, considering […]
Read More… from Not Just Buildings: Round-Table Discussion with FuturArc Prize 2022 Jurors
FuturArc Prize (FAP) 2022: Reinterpretation—one theme with the highest realisation potential in FAP’s 14-year run—asked students to reinterpret existing corporate/private/state-owned entities in Asia to transform them into civic/public spaces that give back to the community and are good, inviting, safe and sustainable. This challenge was set in the hope that the visions proposed could one […]
Read More… from What our jurors say about FuturArc Prize 2022 Entries
Dear FuturArc readers, “God is in the details.” This famous quote by Mies van der Rohe aptly illustrates this cycle’s FuturArc Prize (FAP) First Place winner’s entry. Chai Yi Yang’s proposal is one that has been meticulously thought out and painstakingly drawn up. I will not give away too much here for the beauty of […]
Louvres are a time-honoured element of architecture in the tropics, performing several functions related to light and optics. They filter out sun glare while allowing in natural daylight to reduce a space’s cooling load, and could allow cross-ventilation through the breathable gaps. Depending on their angle, louvres can also shield the interior against outside eyes. […]
