Research Campus & Retirement Home Village

Located within the lush tropical landscape at Malaysia, the site is characterized by lakes and water channels. The design of this research based campus is responds to the physical landscape of the site and to the weather patterns particular to this tropical environment.

To allow students to move around the campus freely, while shaded from the sun or protected from downpours, spaceship-shaped canopies shelter the pedestrian paths that wind around the eastern of the site. These canopies intersect to encircle a landscaped park. Arranged around the edge of the canopies are buildings of teaching and research, contained in institution blocks that tuck beneath the edges of the canopies.

Besides, retirement home village has been designated at the western side of the development. Community and the existing landscape natural world became the inspiration for this elderly village, which provides residents with easy access to the outdoors and plenty of the space to gather. The aims of the design is to provide "a sense of belonging in an era of uncertainty" for this group of residents.

Design Architects: Garis Architects S/B (Ar Ngu Ngie Woon)

#KLAF2016_GARIS_THE LIGHT COLLECTION II

 

A sustainable and happy community is about a group of people pursuing common practices and principles in living with a high degree of respect for the environment, people and the place they live in.  The collective community lifestyle can be set in motion by design - by promoting interaction and mutual support and learning - a common way of life, awareness and care for the community and place can be established.  The Light Waterfront _ Residential Enclave sets a compelling precedent in a stratified residential development with facilities.  The network of connectors and nodes that are used as design strategy to integrate dwelling units in a regular landed community can take on the 3rd dimension where levels come into play, producing greater permutations between the community and their relationship with the public domain.

 

Social interaction is promoted by design, in the strategy of multi-level, multi-user-group common area or community level public domain - much like the structure of a small village, whereby a network of paths and small congregation spaces link together clusters of dwellings/neighbourhoods or sub-communities.  Each sub-community is earmarked to be ranging from 30 to 50 units.  In this project, the list of spaces include: the Fishbone entrance and passageway, marina, colonnades, recreational decks, pooldecks, gymnasium, multipurpose hall, shops, foyers/lobbies/corridors and pocket terraces/decks, perimeter parkway, etc.  Analogous to the traditional on-stilts clan villages - also an expression of a rather Eastern cultural and urban typology - the social meeting spaces are not the Western town square but streets, passageways, piers, corner stores, temples, halls, etc.  Like the traditional equivalents, the contemporary interpretation of each of these spaces serve the community in different ways: large congregation or event at the Fishbone; formal meeting at the Foyer and Multipurpose Hall; family and friends party at the recreational deck and pooldeck; incidental chats at the corridors and lift lobbies of each floor; and so on.  As a result the project has greater than norm ratio of amenities.

 

All above Description by: Ar Tang Hsiao Seak

Design Architects: Garis Architects S/B

(Ar Tang Hsiao Seak / Ar Ngu Ngie Woon)

 

#KLAF2016_GARIS_AFFORDABLE HOUSING-COMMUNITY STRATEGIES

This presentation outlines an approach to planning and design of affordable housing  scheme recognising that some aspects of the development and living community may change while some are more timeless.  It is presented as a series of principles, methodology framework and guidelines encompassing action plans and prototypes - laid out across a spectrum of the two extremes of “unchanging" and “changing" parameters related to affordable housing development and its community and life therein.

 

All above Description by: Ar Tang Hsiao Seak

Design Architects: Garis Architects S/B

(Ar Tang Hsiao Seak / Ar Ngu Ngie Woon)

 

 

#KLAF2016 _ GARIS _ RESIDENTIAL TYPOLOGY

 

•    This presentation outlines the evolution of landed residential typology developed in our practice over time reflective of the myriad changing conditions and growth of the society and nation. 

•    The evolution sees the transformation of rudimentary linked house typology - built based on speed and quantitative approach to solving housing problems of the nation - to building community based on qualitative appraisal of the environment and its sustainability. 

•    The visuals are mapped through the basic principles that their manifestations themselves have seen evolution over time, namely: community _ identity _ safety & security _ amenity _ sustainability

•    With growing wealth brings choice and qualitative appraisal from the people

•    With changing family and tenancy makeup brings sophisticated and new hybrid, evolutionary typologies

•    With greater awareness in health and well-being brings active lifestyle and connectedness to the outdoor considerations

•    With rising crime rate defensible space principles become relevant again in addressing safety and security issues

•    With traffic congestions we integrate building design with public transport and explore personal mobility solutions, whilst accessibility to local amenities and services become more important and integrated

All above Description by: Ar Tang Hsiao Seak

Design Architects: Garis Architects S/B

(Ar Tang Hsiao Seak / Ar Ngu Ngie Woon)

Composed by: Albert Chua

  

Aloni house in Antiparos by deca Architecture

The design of the house is a dual response to the particular topography of the site and to the rural domestication techniques that in the past shaped the raw ‘Cycladic island’ landscape. In the past, dry-rubble stone walls domesticated the land for agricultural purposes and were the most prominent man-made interventions in the landscape. The walls retained earth and transformed a steep topography into a series of arable plateaus.

Today, the Cycladic islands are being reshaped by a very different force: the demand for holiday homes. The design uses the precedent of earth-retaining stone walls to create an artificial landscape that is both rural and domestic in use.

The site is a natural saddle where two slopes meet. In the North-South axis the slope rises between two hills while in the East-West axis the slope drops, opening to the sea views. Two long stone walls bridge the hills allowing the house to nestle in the space within while maintaining the continuity of the landscape which flows over it. This simple strategy blurs the edges of the house and makes its mass imperceptible within the broader skyline of the island.

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w02n 2cents:

The designer smartly use the inspiration of the "Nature Forces" of the existing landscape. Impressed with the architecture idea / principle that utilise the existing context to create a new space, that gave a great architecture that consolidate historical value with new inspiration. As well as using the indegenous material with new form in architecture.

Formosa 1140 / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Located in the heart of West Hollywood, this new eleven unit housing project emphasizes the central importance of shared open space for the residents and the community. Formosa takes what would be the internalized open space of the courtyard and moves it to the exterior of the building to create a park which occupies approximately one third (4,600 sf) of the project site.

As a result of shifting the common open space to the exterior and pushing the building to one side, units are organized linearly allowing for ‘park frontage’ and cross-ventilation for every unit. External circulation is used as a buffer between public and private realms and articulated through layers of perforated metal and small openings.

The careful placement of outer skin panels and inner skin fenestration creates a choreographed effect, both revealing and concealing, while achieving a unique expression of form and materials. The exterior skin also keeps west facing units cooler by acting as a screen and shading device. The facade is clad in red, metal panels that provide shade for the windows and separate the circulation of residents from the public domain.

All above info and images from http://www.dezeen.com

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w02n 2cents:
Impressed how the architect use the red colours in this apartment. No doubts the entire development consept and approaches are remarkable. But still, the heavy use of red colour is very subjective to the public. Anyhow, personally i felt awesome with those composition of red tone facade, and how the architect articulate the panelling and the proportionated opening.