Breathing Layers

Azmee, Nik Ariff and Mohamad, Kalsom and Yang, Clifford Loh Jia (2010) Breathing Layers. Sustainable Tropical Environmental Design Exhibition (STEDex’10), 2. pp. 84-85. ISSN 2180-0685

Abstract

The artefact is not so much the placement of a design within an urban lung but more of the design being the urban lung itself. The project is an office unit that is not only placed within an urban breathing space but is more of an office unit that breathes within its urban context. The most conspicuous step taken to fulfill these objectives is reassessing the generic compartmentalised office unit to allow air flow with minimal vertical planar hindrance. It is not a matter of merely “breaking down the walls” but more of what follows after which is how to replace the functions and necessities of walls without relying on them. These come with a reassessment of the working culture and finding new solutions to old working habits.......[Read More]

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