AirBamboo
Featuring: AIRLAB
Opening visits on 11 October, ticketed
Edible Garden City @ Queenstown (60 Jln Penjara, Singapore 149375)
Bridging the gap between the old and the new is never easy. Traditional building methods, where the unpredictability of a natural material leads to manual adjustments, seem to contrast with the mechanical precision of modern construction. AirBamboo - a bamboo gazebo developed by AIRLAB @ SUTD - bridges the gap with the use of traditional raw bamboo poles with 3D printed connectors. The result is an iconic, lightweight structure that promotes the use of public space, sheltering the users from both the intense sun and heavy rain. (Get tickets)
Knitted Architectural Assemblies
Featuring: Dynamics Assemblies Lab
Opening visits on 11 October, ticketed
Knit Tensegrity Shell and Living Forms will be exhibited at Edible Garden City; Knit Patterned Flow Pavilion will be exhibited at SUTD
Three projects made possible by computer numerical control (CNC) knitting; three strategies for employing bespoke knitted membranes for architectural assemblies. Knit Tensegrity Shell uses a continuous elastic membrane that can be tensioned to form a shell-like structure; Knit Patterned Flow has discrete textile panels with different elasticities to interact with elastic rods; Living Forms adopts the knit as a volumetric permeable membrane to bind with cultivated mycelium as a bio-composite. (Get tickets)
Green Agora
Featuring: Adjunct Assistant Professor Calvin Chua (Spatial Anatomy)
Various dates, ticketed
Ground Up Initiative (91 Lor Chencharu, Singapore 769201)
A pavilion for community dialogue on nature, food and farming. Conceived as a living structure, Green Agora allows native plants to grow on its modular aluminium structure and steel meshes. Combining experimentation in construction and growing techniques, Green Agora embodies a new type of nature-oriented public space. (Get tickets)
PARK(ing) day at Jalan Besar
Featuring: SUTD students and alumni
3 October, 9AM to 4PM
Horne and Jellicoe Rd
Watch our students and alumni transform parking lots into public places that adjusts to current extreme level of health consciousness. Visit us for a one-day-only special, to reimagine how we can live, work and play in this ‘new normal’.
ArchiCraft
ArchiCraft is a series of workshops curated by SUTDIO (student club) that allows participants to explore the different disciplines in society and their interaction with architecture, which aims to empower participants to express their appreciation and understanding of the built environment through art, design and DIY craft.
Virtual Workshops
Physical Workshop
Singapore Archifest Opening Forum: How Can We Place Architecture at the Frontline
Featuring: Associate Professor Chong Keng Hua as moderator
25 September, 7PM to 8.15PM
This Opening Forum will discuss the role of architecture in today’s world, featuring different leaders in the built industry on how they are tackling the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic through architectural responses and resources readiness, and how to restart safely and transform the building industry.
SIA Virtual Conference: Day 3 - Empathetic Interventions
Featuring: Assistant Professor Jeffrey Chan as moderator
30 September, 7PM to 9.30PM
Watch esteemed speakers, Stefan Sjöberg, Kelly Alvarez Doran, James Shen, William Ti Jr. and Ar. Michael Leong, examine the impact of design, how buildings and cities can be more purposefully designed so that they can fight against climate change, natural disasters, health risks and future pandemic.
Archifest 2020 SP x SUTD Forum: Biomimesis in the Age of Climate Change
Featuring: Assistant Professor Christine Yogiaman as panellist and Assistant Professor Michael Budig as moderator
2 October, 3.30PM to 6PM
“If a house were a thing made by nature…” - Aristotle
The Forum first reviews selected histories and philosophies of biomimesis, leading to fresh views in the approach and translation of nature as design in the age of Climate Change. This enquiry has recently been delved into through a workshop conducted recently in the School of Architecture and Built Environment in Singapore Polytechnic. The workshop seeks to discover possible biomimetic design solutions for the built environments through an intense ideation process with teams of students looking at different biomimetic strategies. Preliminary works from the workshop will be presented during the forum. Alternative approaches to biomimesis will be presented by speakers from both SP.ABE and SUTD.ASD. (More info)
Pecha Kucha Penang Night x Singapore Archifest 2020: Let’s Go-Ro!
Featuring: Ha Tshui Mum, programme coordinator for O-Lab and SURGe, as moderator
16 October, 8PM to 10PM
Gotong Royong: Architecture That Keeps Our Community Spirit Alive. Streaming live from Singapore and Malaysia, GO-RO is a newly incepted forum by Singapore Archifest 2020 co-organised with Pecha Kucha Penang, in conjunction with World Architecture Day. The virtual forum will connect social architects and community designers from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, encouraging dialogue, establishing network, and empowering movements, which embody the essence of “Gotong Royong”, i.e. mutual help. (More info)
RETHINK : REBOOT : REVAMP – By Young Architects Studio
Featuring: SUTD student representatives Jeanette Lee (ASD alumna, Class of 2020), Sean Lee (M.Arch), Lester Lim (M.Arch), Ng Su Wen (M.Arch), Ng Wen Qi (M.Arch), Grace Sim (M.Arch), Rebecca Tan (M.Arch)
17 October, 12.30PM to 3.30PM
As the world is facing an unprecedented crisis of a pandemic, it is even more important for Architects and Designers, young and younger, to get together; to RETHINK our current practices; to REBOOT our outdated systems; to REVAMP our future. Our student representatives join 3 young architects and representatives from other institutions to to discuss and share their perspectives on the relevance of architecture through this year’s theme of “Architecture saving OUR world”. (More info)
Hokkien Mee Diplomacy Forum
Featuring: Adjunct Assistant Professor Calvin Chua and Ng Jin Xi, design strategist at Gensler Singapore (M.Arch alumna, Class of 2019) as panellists.
30 October, 7PM to 9PM
Hokkien Mee Diplomacy Forum explores the various forms of local agriculture resilience and emerging Built Environment dynamics. (More info)
40 organisations are shortlisted for this year's SG Archifest Virtual Exhibition, which celebrates diverse bodies of works that strive to make a difference in our lives and the world around us. As the issues we now face are multi-faceted, by bringing together diverse yet closely-related professions, this exhibition is a call to expand the dialogue beyond the conventional boundary of architecture.
The exhibits are curated in three categories:
Our Shelters
Featuring: AIRLAB - Assistant Professor Carlos Banon, Dynamics Assemblies Lab - Assistant Professor Christine Yogiaman and Assistant Professor Kenneth Tracy, Spatial Anatomy - Adjunct Assistant Professor Calvin Chua, Assistant Professor Michael Budig
Novel approaches in architectural typologies, use of materials, fabrication techniques that respond to emerging societal, environmental and public health needs.
Our Stories
Featuring: O-Lab, Youth-Topia option studio by Jackson Tan and Alex Sun
Process-driven architectural design and planning that uncover latent human needs, engage the stakeholders, and empower the communities.
Our Sanctuary
Featuring: SUTD-Ong & Ong Resident Architect Andrew Lee, Gensler - Ng Jin Xi (M.Arch alumna, Class of 2019), Professor of Practice Eva Castro
Rethinking of urban landscape that contributes to ecology and local food production so that the city can be more resilient before the next crisis.