Futuristic Architectural Designs

AWARD WINNING PUBLIC SPACES


 

 

1) Creative Adaptation in the Urban Landscape: Jerry Van Eyck

This talk is regarding his desire to take a new approach in designing Urban Landscape. His famous philosophy is "I DON'T BELIEVE IN DESIGN BY FORMULA". Each and every situation requires a unique approach to arrive at a realised design that is contextual and a design identity that is unique to a place. He modifies old spaces that are unattractive and deserted to something more spectacular and eye-catching. He thought of new ways to combine more greenery to hardscapes. He likes to create spaces of wonder that combine realism and fantasy. Spaces that sustain themselves and engage their communities. His mission is to design large-scale urban and landscape interventions as well as public spaces and gardens. Not forgetting to reference local context, history, urban setting and surrounding ecology. We should design in relation to the identity of the place.

2) Making Urban Planning Urban: Gregor Wiltschko

Urban planners are long-term planners. Urban planners have to deal with issues like architecture housing, mobility, transportation etc, that have to link with regulations and legislation .A city is a product of private or public interest.  The task of an Urban Planner is to create a common ground that we can share responsibilities and language. Their task is not so much to design the site or the area but its much more on designing the right process, then the collaboration can really happen.

There are 4 learnings to Urban Planning:

• Getting the right questions
• New products through co-opetition
• Deals between stakeholders to save qualities
• More shoulders to execute the plan 

 3) Geo Pulse: New Perspectives on Urban Spaces: Michael Badic

This talk is reagarding new ways on how to deal with urban spaces. He and his team from AE Solutions are developing the most promising prototype and research results and are ready for real-world implementation. There are new and innovative ways now to gather vital information to  urbanise the rural areas of the word. His works are already ongoing in China and Switzerland. Cities are a living system which is a fusion of human development. By 2025, 70% of population will live in urban areas.

4) Design, Planning and the development continuum: Ben Hewett 

This talk is regarding strategic advice on design planning on built environment. WE ALL WANT A BETTER CITY, A BETTER WAY OF LIVING. The built environment has a significant impact on the quality of our lives. It is essential that we do anything we can to ensure we make the built environment the best as possible. Deign Planning Development is a process to understand the reason or the vision and the possible values that night contain before the execution takes place. Design is about dreaming. Imagining places and things different to the present situation. It is essential to dream because if we don't, we will only design something that we already know existed and nothing new comes out. How people relate to places

 

The vision of  HDB was to plan new Towns that were highly self-sufficient so that people can meet their daily needs within the New Town.

6 stages of development in HDB's history.

• Initiation
• Consolidation
• Refinement
• Excellence
• Asset building
• “My Place, My Home”

Key policies that HDB adopted over the years:

• Clear target groups
• Keep rules simple
• Strict eligibility criteria
• Integrated service function
• Creative financing scheme

HDB focus on addressing the shortage of housing in Singapore. The quality of the flats 

built in the first and second stages were not of ideal quality as HDB had to deal with 

cheaper materials. 

Dr Liu described some of the planning parameters adopted for New Town HDB planned New Towns with the community spirit in mind Dr Liu described the research done in determine the ideal number of units per segmented corridor, to encourage interaction between neighbors and create a sense of belonging. 

He said that the amount of land given to residential uses was less than 50 per cent,  

and the remaining land was used for roads, commercial and educational institutions, parks and gardens, sports and recreation, places of worship, transportation, etc. 

This comprehensive inventory of community facilities and amenities 

was a major contribution by HDB, in terms of building the community, creating a good environment that is convenient and comfortable, and also contributing to the urban planning of Singapore.