Urban Design (UD)
More than ever, the value of designing liveable cities is at the forefront of architectural practice because of the future challenges that all cities across the globe must face.
Urban intensification becomes the ‘hold-all’ term for such challenges cities must address such as: climate change, urban migration, the scarcity of land, cost of living, housing demands, social equity, environmental sustainability, economic opportunities and more. Although these challenges may be common to all cities, each of them will pose specific contextual needs.
These projects analyse, design and develop propositions for delivering high quality urban environments within the specific context that each city must face in the future. The quality of the public realm and the human experience comes to the forefront of design. However, it is the architecture and the built environment that begins to shape these liveable cities.
The production of the public realm is addressed across the different morphological layers: landscape and the natural environment; streets and mobility networks, urban blocks and plots, buildings and details within buildings. All these become design assets that each project works with to address the specific urban challenge and context.
Unit Tutors Names: Regina Lim, Laura Novo de Azevedo, Karl Kropf, Georgia Butina-Watson, Maurizio Sibilla
Guest tutors Names: Soham De, Roland Wong, Prachi Rampuria, Sebastian Baran, Stephen Haines
Student Names:
Zaim Bin Muhammad Zawawi, Florence Chau, Alicia Desmay Hernandez, Marcu Dinca, Vedant Ganediwala, Connor Heron, Marha Irdina Izzudin, Nurul Rihana KK Sihabutheen, Junghwan Kim, Dafanie Shue Chin Lee, Ying Yee Loo, James Mee, Liam Neville, Madhura Ramanathan, Ainie Shafeeu, Kilian Soudy