#FOTM - Urban Tarzan

by Ryan Quah Kun Hao

@ryquah @ry_archi

Studio Dr. Joseph Lim

Y3S2 Design Studio 2022

Systems, Comprehensiveness, Integration

The Urban Tarzan responds to the increasingly hostile urban environment of Downtown Singapore. It opposes the conventional typology of maximising floorplates for commercial, monetary and material culture. It also criticises the lack of physical playzone in the downtown district, where work and transaction dominates as the anchor programme. Hence, Urban Tarzan attempts to break the monopoly of the concrete jungle and display the heroic return of wilderness and fun in the city.

This project proposes an alternative typology of a high-rise tower that incorporate the operations of the public realm, ecological habitat and the climatic environment. The discrete construction is appropriated by the relations between aggregates, structural efficency and spatial effectiveness - activating what seems to just-so be a structural element into a device of spatial experience and system of ecology. The inconsistent composition of the structural element negotiates and shapes the creation of architectural experiences - yielding a circulation path that dances around columns and beams, fragments floorplates and decentralises service systems.

The Urban Tarzan challenges the naturally horizontal park typology as a vertical tower. It re-imagines how nature could be re-experienced in a modern superstructure setting that would provide sense of freshness, wilderness and bionomics. Leveraging on the architecture form, an ecological system (as programme) is curated between human, plants as well as native and migratory bird species. In prospect, the Urban Tarzan forwards a proposal to inspire a paradigm shift in the attitudes and methodology towards high-dense development and commercialism.

Special Thanks to Ryan Quah.

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