Articulated Landscapes: Sustainable Space Making Across Scales
Research and Teaching Collaboration with Singapore University of Technology and Design – SUTD
Globally, more people live in urban areas than in rural areas as our planet has gone through rapid urbanization in recent decades. This requires a rethinking of the design of our future cities in order to formulate sustainable solutions.
The presented design studio output is part of a long-term collaboration between Aalto University and SUTD, started in 2019. The proposed design solutions are the starting point for an implementation within a series of test cases in Finland and Singapore.
Within the studio, computational methods and techniques are developed to study the relation between the centre and the city across scales and its underlying flows of different data streams like, people, material and culture, urban green.
Digital design is driven by thinking in structures and systems, translated in a pattern of order and their interaction. The joint studio is an introduction into such design thinking and emphasizes the exploration of spatial organizational pattern, in various levels of abstraction and scale through the integration of computational methods and workflows. The studio in spring is part of a collaboration with Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and will explore the role of hawker centers as civic spaces in Singapore.
Within the studio, computational methods and techniques will be developed to study the relation between the centre and the city across scales and its underlying flows of different data streams like, people, material and culture, urban green. This knowledge will be used to speculate on proposals for new types of Hawker centres in Singapore aiming at the connection of urban and green systems into a new urban typology.