Dietmar Leyk – Waterfront Tanjong Pagar
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Intensive economic development, rapid population growth, and the concentration of high value jobs in cities have led to exceptionally high population densities in urban Asia. The heightened proximity of people, the deepening interdependency of technological systems (information, water, waste, energy), and pressure upon urban ecologies that result, present novel challenges for designing appropriately compact city forms. This session will showcase one approach to these challenges, by focusing on research and design work undertaken by the Future Cities Lab team for the development of the Waterfront Tanjong Pagar, one of Singapore’s most complex urban sites. It will demonstrate fresh interdisciplinary work that incorporates innovative methods, sophisticated data-driven simulations for flows of energy, mobility and water, responsive morphologies, anchored by an innovative approach to design.
Dietmar Leyk is an architect researcher who teaches, publishes and lectures internationally. He has taught at ETH Zurich, Berlage Institute Rotterdam and has published extensively on topics that explore the relationship between architecture and the city. He is currently the project leader of the Waterfront Tanjong Pagar project and research scenario leader for ‘High-Density Mixed-Use Cities’ at the Future Cities Laboratory and co-principal investigator of the research project ‘The Future of Cities: New Urban Typologies’ at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) is the first programme of the Singapore-ETH Centre, established by ETH Zurich and Singapore’s National Research Foundation. FCL seeks to shape sustainable future cities through science, by design, and in place, with an Asian perspective. |
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