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    • Philips-NUS Studio (NUS)
    • Weakness as an Urban Strategy and Mode of Design (NUS)
    • Form Follows Health and Wellbeing (NUS)
    • Spatialising Values (NUS)
    • Master of Architecture. Emphasis in Interior Architecture (SAIC)
    • Beppu Street Studio (SAIC)
    • MFA in Studio (SAIC)
    • Bunka Oudan (SAIC)
    • ManifesTEA (SAIC)
    • I-Leap Art Event (Singapore)
  • Text
    • Yì Jiàng
    • Hamawaki
    • Re-Tooling Architectural Education: Ideas from the Healthcare 2030 Design Studio in Singapore
    • Social Curating and Archiving
    • Uncovering the Infraordinary
    • The Living Museum
    • Mr. H (孔生)
    • Informal Religious Shrines: Curating Community Assets in Hong Kong and Singapore
    • Between Making and Action- Ideas for a Relational Design Pedagogy
    • Unbuilding
    • The Artfulness of Design
    • Interior Architecture- An Architect's Perspective
    • Crisis, Dialogue, Imagination
    • Reflections on Chinese Landscape Painting and Garden
    • The City
    • Furnishing the City
    • Constructing Ground
    • Sense of Materiality
    • Negotiated Territories
    • Intimate Immensity
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    • Dialogical Strategy in Architecture Education
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FORM FOLLOWS HEALTH AND WELLBEING 

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The Covid-19 pandemic is an unprecedented, global public health crisis and has underscored the importance of designing for health and well-being in our cities. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”1 The broad definition opens up opportunities for architects to reimagine existing public spaces and buildings by reconsidering conventional understanding of DENSITY, URBANISM and PUBLICNESS as we transition to a “slow-burn” pandemic. Health and well-being are inseparable from the natural and designed environments. It is an alliance that is conjoined, symbiotic and traverses across different scales. Materials we
use for our buildings, products designed for our daily activities and public spaces around our neighbourhoods are
critical components that will either advance or hinder our individual and collective health and well-being. Students from Unit 1 will learn and apply systematic research, ideation and design methods to transform observation, experimentation and prototyping into design solutions that promote a healthy lifestyle and wellness for Whampoa residents of all ages.
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Bicycle Urbanism. Liu Yi Jiang.

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Common Heights. Kee Cheow Yan.
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Idle Architecture. Ling Min Yi.
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Third Degree Workspace. Lim Shi Yi.

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Wan Nabilah presenting her project to turn the ground and upper floors of several public housing blocks into learning and teaching spaces for the children of the residents.
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