Overseas trips

The Sustainable Design Option Studio under ASD’s undergraduate programme explores the multi-dimensional issues of sustainable design through a variety of lenses and at diverse temporal and spatial scales. Issues of resource efficiency, resilience, material and typological innovation, micro-climatic and site affordances, life-cycles and metabolism, and many other critical issues will serve as the projective context in which students will develop critical design solutions for small, medium and large scale architectures and urban interventions.

The explosion of social media in the past decade has reshaped how we perceive and interact with spaces and architecture. With this new wave, comes new experiences, new thoughts and new ideas.

Ironically, environmental protection and species conservation efforts require the cautious transformation of the very same natural environment they intend to preserve. In order to withstand the economic and social pressure applied by their surroundings, these contested territories need to grant space for caretakers, researchers, rangers, and eventually also visitors.

This studio will question this building typology – airports – as an urban hub, its validity, problems and potentials. What is the relationship between an airport and its surrounding contextual fabric?

The existing dilapidated kindergarten classroom building at Tan Tay, Long An Province, 90-minute drive from Ho Chi Minh City, was demolished in anticipation of the recent powerful storm Usagi. The school is now in urgent need of a new classroom building to accommodate more than a hundred children.

Digital design is driven by thinking in structures and systems, translated in pattern of order and their interaction. The joint SUTD + AALTO studio is an introduction into such design thinking and emphasises the exploration of spatial organisational pattern, in various levels of abstraction and scale through the integration of computational methods and workflows.

This design studio focuses on the great Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446). It is however, not a history course about the life or works of Brunelleschi, but a design studio that studies the design principles of Brunelleschi’s works and their
relevance today.

The existing dilapidated kindergarten classroom building at Tan Tay, Long An Province, 90-minute drive from Ho Chi Minh City, was demolished in anticipation of the recent powerful storm Usagi.

This trip is to Japan, visiting Tokyo, Kobe, and Inujima. The primary focus is to give students at SUTD experience of Japan.

Social media data is increasingly being used to understand and influence behaviours. Despite wide ranging use elsewhere, its application is still yet to be translated into architectural applications.