Overseas trips
xLab Summer Program
I had the opportunity to attend the xLAB Summer Program this August. The program served as a platform, bringing together a total of 16 students from universities all over the world and diverse faculty from architecture, business, technology and science. The 16 of us were divided into 2 studios led by Greg Lynn and Kaz Yoneda and Andrew Witt and Toshiki Hirano respectively. 3 people from Nikkei Sekkei and Nihon Sekkei also each joined the 2 studios.
Tensile Configurations Studio Trip (Bali, Indonesia)
The Tensile Configurations Studio had decided to design and build a pavilion for the SUTD Library. However, since the pavilion we had begun designing was rather unprecedented and unique, we decided to spend the recess week learning more about bamboo, one of the key elements to our design.
Sustainable Design Option Studio 1 trip – Remote Ageing Communities
Remote Aging Communities: How to age / live gracefully, and sustainably focused on the inhabitants and visitors to Inujima and how to integrate these aspects together.
Sustainable Design Option Studio 2 Trip – The Palladio Studio
The Palladio Studio is a 4th-year design studio at SUTD–led by Rene Tan and his senior colleagues at RT+Q Architects.
KIT trip: Decoding Data Landscapes
Big-data and Machine learning are slated to change the way that we live, work and play. The analysis of big-data has shown new ways to see the world and demonstrated a powerful capability to influence if applied well.
Live Design Discourse (Bangkok) – The Essential Framework
Two ASD students participated in the Live Design Discourse by Singapore Institute of Architects in collaboration with other regional architectural institutes.
Sustainable Design Option Studio 2 trip – Bamboo in Formation
The studio “bamboo in formation” investigates creative uses of bamboo in architecture. As part of the instruction, the studio conducted a study trip to analyze examples of bamboo architecture, meet the architects, and visit
2018 IAP – Swiss IAP, Swiss Innovations
Swiss IAP offered a pathway: To create and establish data that could be used to design and create a Hospitality Scene in and for Basel To identify the distinctive products of Basel, notably places and
2018 IAP – Japan, Measuring the Unmeasurable
Data is a ubiquitous part of our daily lives; the actions we do generate data both in ways we are aware such as a paying for something with a credit card, but also in ways
2018 IAP – Vietnam IAP, Community Design at Hanoi
Project Info Building on previous participatory community design project in Ho Chi Minh City (2014-2015), SUTD OLab embarked on a new community design project in Hanoi, this time in partnership with WorldVision and CapitaLand. The