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we picture as rarely be driven by
architecture matters power religion
superstition have all will be the forces
who shapes the architecture this last 35
years
these forces shift and leave less and
less face for architect how architect
can navigate through these forces how
architect can find solution to create
new structure that able to address this
context I would like to do this
apologies of architecture is context
actually imagine that architecture is
not anymore this rigid structure but an
organism that can absorb the local
conditions the different context and use
this energy and this forces to create
new typology new spaces new experience
in this approach I would like to do this
apotheosis of architecture is context is
the great context context as a source of
inspiration of the base of the project
of architecture I will go through three
different projects three different
country three different program three
different scale to show how it’s
possible to use the context as the main
source of inspiration and I will start
in Singapore with a massive housing
development of 2,000 units in punggil
punggil is the new town in Singapore the
25th new town in Singapore is a reclaim
land 40 minutes from the city as you can
see it’s a new development from scratch
but actually the contact is there there
is a new canal artificial canals that
have been done
we have to do this first development we
need to go back to the context the
political context of Singapore what is
public housing public housing is a core
of the nation for Singapore Lee Kuan Yew
in 1965 declare the first campaign will
be a roof for each Singaporean and this
is the start of the public housing in
Singapore in 1965 this project that we
have to do is for the 50 anniversary of
the independence of Singapore the
political context and the historical
context is even more important than
everything 1965 they start amassing
housing development with rationality and
modernism as main language of this new
campaign the rationality you can see it
on the facade this white stripe become
the identity of the new public housing
in Singapore even even though it will be
display on the beyond the build you can
see you can recognise the rationality of
the modernism the white stripe this is
the pride of the nation in 1965 for
Singapore even more you can see in this
late map 1970 of a sightseeing of
Singapore
you see people public housing display on
it I will be very surprised to see
public housing display on sightseeing
map of Switzerland actually this is to
see and to understand what is the
importance of the public housing in
Singapore and what is for us the
alternative how we can give the new
generation of public housing in
Singapore in the same times paying
tribute of what I’ve been done during 50
years and what is the alternative of
these blocks with between blocks
actually we look at something that is
more a bridge you breathe in the fact
that
from goal is not in the city of course
is not in the nature but is in between
so we thought about mixing urban fabrics
and landscape and create a brief
buildings that can generate new and form
a new massing that adapt to the
different conditions these buildings
it’s a dense development with 2,000 unit
and how with X a Grinnell shape and
terracing we are able to combine new
view new experiences and how with the
old ideas of the white ribbon and this
pagoda which expects cream very clearly
these ideas of the roof which is
actually a very basic feature of
tropical architecture meaning protection
against sun protection against rain and
these two reference helped us to develop
our facade that actually pay tribute to
the history of the public housing but at
the same times become sun shading a
sustainable feature that can be adapt
can be changed into Juliet balconies to
enhance the relation between inside and
outside the building change form change
perception depending where you are this
building this organism actually adapt to
the different context when you look at
the the canal you open and create open
courtyard he changed also height to
create terraces and to brings again new
experiences for the inadvertent the
courtyard become also landscape feature
with the parking ventilate a natural
ventilate and natural lighted and you
can see how the different wings of the
buildings changed depending the
situation and the view the scale reduced
close to the canal to adapt to the
promenade and the scale of human this
have been successfully completely two
years ago and recently it has been the
display in the new $50 bills of
Singapore for the 50 anniversary in a
way this project has been absorbed by
the history of Singapore or the
architecture has absorbed the context of
the history of Singapore next project is
a tech Park in wallack Vietnam this
project is a project we start 10 years
ago in Vietnam and it will actually
located in a very close sight of Hanoi
40 kilometers with a lot of greenery a
lot of specific location where you can
see the map here between Hanoi and
Wallachia
we have also a site with a lot of yields
and a lot of water feature actually this
is what we found when we start to do
this master plan actually it was a
high-tech park the program was a tech
park and we can see that what we
discover is the master plan plane up to
now up to that day was obviously towers
and Street between towers nothing to do
with this specific city of the Wallach
location our site actually is just right
here in the middle of a lake of a water
feature here and we can see that there
is no adaptation no cares about the
local condition of this area we decide
rather to do towers to do auras on tile
densification and to create seven
villages around the Central Park all
villages are almost 3,000 to 8,000
people gather in one blocks going
different height and creating courtyard
these ideas of villages come of course
from the old tradition and the
that the people’s is living outside of
Hanoi create horizontal densification
where people can can work play learn
you’ll you far from Hanoi you have to
think not only about office but you you
think about how this organism can leave
the different heart the different
culture become the main space social
space of the buildings with natural
ventilation and for the car park semi
Sinkin and the couch art opened to
different perception different landscape
you can see the facade who use shelters
to protect again the Sun the
sustainability is always include in our
project and how we can absorb the
different orientation even inside the
building we ensure this core chart to
bring natural light inside of his face
how the buildings adapt to the different
context here facing the lake with a
green facade and we have in between
villages create landscape facilities
organism emerge into the landscape even
not existing with a fifth facade full of
green where there is relation strong
relation between outside and inside we
encourage at that way the people to go
in and to go out again so there is a
relation and you enjoy outdoor
activities as well these villages
creates a new environment for people to
find another way to work outside of
Hanoi but also a way for them to find a
new narrative for their life outside
Hanoi
I will finish with a very small project
of bird cage in Switzerland this is a
very natural environment too close to
the river but inside the city
and actually our Commission was to
create a birdcage of 10 meter height in
a natural environment we were very very
afraid worried about destroying this
natural environment you can imagine that
a large volume like a showcase now can
damage the natural condition of the site
so we decided to do an on buildings
meaning that we found a small location
in between trees and we create our
footprint according to the contour of
the trees we decide that the structure
comes directly from the trees still
trees actually the colors of the
structure adapt to the different color
of the site according to the season of
course and we create a structure of 17
still trees all unique a new home for
the bird who should be protect for a
virus he flew with a slab of 8
centimeter will be the support of net in
ox net almost transparent that create an
on building an on facade you can see
that the buildings disappear almost and
you see how he start to talk to dialog
with the context the different colors we
create we create a path through this
cage to keep the poor city of the site
and finally this last image that I like
a lot because the the boundary between
architecture and context is blur almost
none exists
you can barely see what is architecture
and
what is the context is natural context
for this project and actually I will say
that architecture should exceed the the
built environment and architecture
should rather talk about those forces
this existing forces that exist in any
context and actually we as architect
should be the generator of a new
narrative for the people here for the
bird who is living in thank you very
much
[Applause]
we picture as rarely be driven by
architecture matters power religion
superstition have all will be the forces
who shapes the architecture this last 35
years
these forces shift and leave less and
less face for architect how architect
can navigate through these forces how
architect can find solution to create
new structure that able to address this
context I would like to do this
apologies of architecture is context
actually imagine that architecture is
not anymore this rigid structure but an
organism that can absorb the local
conditions the different context and use
this energy and this forces to create
new typology new spaces new experience
in this approach I would like to do this
apotheosis of architecture is context is
the great context context as a source of
inspiration of the base of the project
of architecture I will go through three
different projects three different
country three different program three
different scale to show how it’s
possible to use the context as the main
source of inspiration and I will start
in Singapore with a massive housing
development of 2,000 units in punggil
punggil is the new town in Singapore the
25th new town in Singapore is a reclaim
land 40 minutes from the city as you can
see it’s a new development from scratch
but actually the contact is there there
is a new canal artificial canals that
have been done
we have to do this first development we
need to go back to the context the
political context of Singapore what is
public housing public housing is a core
of the nation for Singapore Lee Kuan Yew
in 1965 declare the first campaign will
be a roof for each Singaporean and this
is the start of the public housing in
Singapore in 1965 this project that we
have to do is for the 50 anniversary of
the independence of Singapore the
political context and the historical
context is even more important than
everything 1965 they start amassing
housing development with rationality and
modernism as main language of this new
campaign the rationality you can see it
on the facade this white stripe become
the identity of the new public housing
in Singapore even even though it will be
display on the beyond the build you can
see you can recognise the rationality of
the modernism the white stripe this is
the pride of the nation in 1965 for
Singapore even more you can see in this
late map 1970 of a sightseeing of
Singapore
you see people public housing display on
it I will be very surprised to see
public housing display on sightseeing
map of Switzerland actually this is to
see and to understand what is the
importance of the public housing in
Singapore and what is for us the
alternative how we can give the new
generation of public housing in
Singapore in the same times paying
tribute of what I’ve been done during 50
years and what is the alternative of
these blocks with between blocks
actually we look at something that is
more a bridge you breathe in the fact
that
from goal is not in the city of course
is not in the nature but is in between
so we thought about mixing urban fabrics
and landscape and create a brief
buildings that can generate new and form
a new massing that adapt to the
different conditions these buildings
it’s a dense development with 2,000 unit
and how with X a Grinnell shape and
terracing we are able to combine new
view new experiences and how with the
old ideas of the white ribbon and this
pagoda which expects cream very clearly
these ideas of the roof which is
actually a very basic feature of
tropical architecture meaning protection
against sun protection against rain and
these two reference helped us to develop
our facade that actually pay tribute to
the history of the public housing but at
the same times become sun shading a
sustainable feature that can be adapt
can be changed into Juliet balconies to
enhance the relation between inside and
outside the building change form change
perception depending where you are this
building this organism actually adapt to
the different context when you look at
the the canal you open and create open
courtyard he changed also height to
create terraces and to brings again new
experiences for the inadvertent the
courtyard become also landscape feature
with the parking ventilate a natural
ventilate and natural lighted and you
can see how the different wings of the
buildings changed depending the
situation and the view the scale reduced
close to the canal to adapt to the
promenade and the scale of human this
have been successfully completely two
years ago and recently it has been the
display in the new $50 bills of
Singapore for the 50 anniversary in a
way this project has been absorbed by
the history of Singapore or the
architecture has absorbed the context of
the history of Singapore next project is
a tech Park in wallack Vietnam this
project is a project we start 10 years
ago in Vietnam and it will actually
located in a very close sight of Hanoi
40 kilometers with a lot of greenery a
lot of specific location where you can
see the map here between Hanoi and
Wallachia
we have also a site with a lot of yields
and a lot of water feature actually this
is what we found when we start to do
this master plan actually it was a
high-tech park the program was a tech
park and we can see that what we
discover is the master plan plane up to
now up to that day was obviously towers
and Street between towers nothing to do
with this specific city of the Wallach
location our site actually is just right
here in the middle of a lake of a water
feature here and we can see that there
is no adaptation no cares about the
local condition of this area we decide
rather to do towers to do auras on tile
densification and to create seven
villages around the Central Park all
villages are almost 3,000 to 8,000
people gather in one blocks going
different height and creating courtyard
these ideas of villages come of course
from the old tradition and the
that the people’s is living outside of
Hanoi create horizontal densification
where people can can work play learn
you’ll you far from Hanoi you have to
think not only about office but you you
think about how this organism can leave
the different heart the different
culture become the main space social
space of the buildings with natural
ventilation and for the car park semi
Sinkin and the couch art opened to
different perception different landscape
you can see the facade who use shelters
to protect again the Sun the
sustainability is always include in our
project and how we can absorb the
different orientation even inside the
building we ensure this core chart to
bring natural light inside of his face
how the buildings adapt to the different
context here facing the lake with a
green facade and we have in between
villages create landscape facilities
organism emerge into the landscape even
not existing with a fifth facade full of
green where there is relation strong
relation between outside and inside we
encourage at that way the people to go
in and to go out again so there is a
relation and you enjoy outdoor
activities as well these villages
creates a new environment for people to
find another way to work outside of
Hanoi but also a way for them to find a
new narrative for their life outside
Hanoi
I will finish with a very small project
of bird cage in Switzerland this is a
very natural environment too close to
the river but inside the city
and actually our Commission was to
create a birdcage of 10 meter height in
a natural environment we were very very
afraid worried about destroying this
natural environment you can imagine that
a large volume like a showcase now can
damage the natural condition of the site
so we decided to do an on buildings
meaning that we found a small location
in between trees and we create our
footprint according to the contour of
the trees we decide that the structure
comes directly from the trees still
trees actually the colors of the
structure adapt to the different color
of the site according to the season of
course and we create a structure of 17
still trees all unique a new home for
the bird who should be protect for a
virus he flew with a slab of 8
centimeter will be the support of net in
ox net almost transparent that create an
on building an on facade you can see
that the buildings disappear almost and
you see how he start to talk to dialog
with the context the different colors we
create we create a path through this
cage to keep the poor city of the site
and finally this last image that I like
a lot because the the boundary between
architecture and context is blur almost
none exists
you can barely see what is architecture
and
what is the context is natural context
for this project and actually I will say
that architecture should exceed the the
built environment and architecture
should rather talk about those forces
this existing forces that exist in any
context and actually we as architect
should be the generator of a new
narrative for the people here for the
bird who is living in thank you very
much
[Applause]
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