Commuter's Hub - Designing for the Future Through Adaptability and Flexibility

hi guys my name is Daniel Chu and I'm from vector abyss today I'll be presenting on my project called designing for the future through adaptability and flexibility my site is located in the town of Johor Bahru in Johor it is situated right next to the customs immigration and quarantine center johor bahru this is the gateway in and out of Singapore for land travel every day roughly 300,000 commuters make their way across the causeway bridge into Singapore this makes it one of the busiest borders in the world as cities around the world develop and grow bigger they are faced with this issue called urban sprawling some of the indicators of sprawl includes low-density development with single purpose land-use randomness in development also known as leap frogging discontinuous urban developments which are the result of inefficient planning for accessibility and lack public open spaces as well as a high dependency on automobile as you can see johor bahru is not excluded from this issue it is something you can feel and you know when you see one but by the time it may be too late in our sight boundaries of study there is a solid - void area ratio of seven to twenty as you can see within our boundary there are a total of sixteen parking lots which covers an area of approximately sixty thousand square meters and provides Hawking for four thousand vehicles this is an inefficient land use within the town due to the large area of single usage and is also one of the side effects of sprawling Edmonds and Rogalski built adaptable buildings as incorporating at the design and construction stage the ability to make future changes easily and within minimum expenses to meet the evolving needs of the occupants later in the life of the building Gerwin on the other hand defines adaptability as an adaptive response to environmental uncertainty [Music] Rapaport consider that adaptability seeks to establish basic system configurations that allow expansion and contraction of functional areas but always within established fixed constraints therefore one thing is certain everything is constantly changing this is principle one we have to build for future that we do not know yet for needs we don't have now with technical possibilities we have yet to discover this is a picture of the Cosway johor bahru back in June 1924 if we would phone back in time could we have predicted how johor bahru would look like after hundred years how would johor bahru look like in the year 2100 what will be one from our buildings in the next hundred years how we live work and enjoy leisure is not static but dynamic innovative and unpredictable the second principle is building for change can only happen if we make a distinction between the base building and the filter the base building consists of the concrete foundations and skeleton the utility connections and the facade this is the responsibility of the investor the feet out on the other hand is done by the user facilities decoration furniture and spaces to make it livable walkable or enjoyable is then created according to the needs altum Utley a building should have a circular life cycle that does not end in demolition but rather renovation upon renovation a case study similar to these principles can be found a Vondelpark in amsterdam this project is called solids 11 the project is one of the three new buildings master plan by belgian architect joker pain on the side of a formal hospital solids represents a new typology in the netherlands which provides reconfigurable spaces for many different types of use in a highly durable building fabric the client stag not required the main elements of the building to have a 200 year lifespan some questions that got me thinking can owning a home office or in space not be tied to a permanent location our small office flexible office really flexible should buildings always have a fixed function from the start can a production-line exists at the transit-oriented development how many years should a building last after months of back-and-forth designing I finally come up with a design solution and it is the commuters up this commuters hub caters to the fast and hectic lifestyle of the commuters who travel daily between Singapore and Malaysia situated right next to ciq this is the perfect location for commuters to end the day of work this building has been built with a post and beam structure where container loads are allocated to be used as homes or offices this building comes with a production line that renovates and retrofits containers according to the customer's needs once completed this containers can be lifted up to a chosen lot services such as water gas and electricity shall be joined with the containers through a standard connection point the reason why I chose containers as the units are because of its universal standardization this allows easy shipment and transportation to various places around the world imagine working in Johor Bahru Dishman and moving to Australia the Knicks this unit can be transported anywhere you like provided that there is a base building present this allows for flexibility and adaptability where our future is uncertain at the start of the semester there were still hundreds of thousands travelling between Malaysia and Singapore but due to the lockdown and border control currently there are no commuters going back and forth this building would have been a failure if it was not being used but since needs can be changed and spaces can be reconfigured it could also become a quarantine center for those returning to Malaysia that is one of the advantage of separating the base building from the free top imagine a global network of base buildings in every country located at every transit-oriented development being able to bring your homes and office to any country you like to work wherever you want that is the goal of this project thank you you

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Length: 10min 1sec (601 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 09 2020