Existing and Potential Future Liveable Cities. Future Cities Laboratory. The BubbleZERO is the laboratory of the Low Exergy research module at FCL that allows to test novel systems for cooling, dehumidification and ventilation and their control under real life ambient and operating conditions in Singapore.
The original objective was to design a space to evaluate the performance of low exergy building systems developed in Switzerland in the tropical climate of Singapore. Low exergy (LowEx) systems optimize supply temperatures to maximize performance. The basic systems were installed at ETH Zurich and shipped and erected as a laboratory in Singapore. This approach resulted in a novel laboratory environment containing hydronic radiant cooling panels and decentralized air supply units, along with a self-shading, inflated “Bubble” skin, experimental low emissivity (LowE) glazing, LED lighting, wireless sensors and distributed control (Bruelisauer et al. 2013).
References. ETH / BuSy / Home. DARCH - SUAT - News. Future Cities Laboratory. Service and Research for Future Planning Environments Informing design and decision-making processes with new techniques and approaches to data acquisition, information visualisation and simulation for urban sustainability In science, simulations play a critical role in enhancing interactions between theory and experiments.
In architecture, simulations function similarly through integrating important design, construction and life-cycle management activities. Moreover in urban planning, simulations are now indispensable for generating and analysing scenarios. The role of simulation has recently been extended by a rapid growth in the availability of urban-related data. This module includes investigations that examine strategies for maximizing the utility of urban-related data. The Cities of the Future – HSBC In The Future I #BambooCity I HSBC Bank Canada. Assistant Professorship of Architecture and Construction.
For detailed information please refer to As urban populations grow so does the demand for materials and resources to support them.
Where such resource demands were once satisfied by local and regional hinterlands, they are increasingly global in scale and reach. This phenomenon has generated materials flows that are trans-continental and planetary in scope, and has profound consequences for the sustainability, functioning, sense of ownership and identity of future cities. This phenomenon presents challenges for the local identity of places, as well as the appropriate allocation, efficient use, and ownership of material resources.
The Professorship of Architecture and Construction at FCL Singapore concentrates its research on alternative construction materials and their application in specific contextual settings, taking into account the availability of materials, human resource capacities, and skills. Mayor research projects currently under investigation include: Creating Site-Specific Dance and Performance Works. About the Course This course focuses on the creation of live site-specific choreography and performance works from conception to production to performance.
Site-specific dance/performance is work created in response to a particular place or site, inspired by its architecture or design, its history, and/or its current use. Lectures and forum discussions will investigate site-based projects in both urban and non-urban locales, and ranging from large-scale to small (guerrilla) style productions. Furthermore, together we will delineate definitions of site-specificity, and look across the history of the field, focusing primarily on dance.
Specific techniques and approaches towards generating site-inspired choreography will be introduced here, but the primary focus is navigating technical issues (lighting, sound, media) and production challenges (budgeting, obtaining permissions, insurance, fundraising, audience/event design). Course Syllabus Recommended Background Suggested Readings. Reason and Persuasion: Thinking Through Three Dialogues By Plato.
About the Course "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” – A.
N. Whitehead It turns out: the more you blow up your beliefs as you go, the more they stay the same. Why ‘Reason and Persuasion’? The course will be of interest to a wide variety of students. Course Syllabus WEEK 1 – Introductions To the course; to philosophy; to Plato and Socrates; to the dialogue form; to Plato’s Euthyphro. WEEK 2 - Plato's Euthyphro: Two Problems One practical, one definitional. 1) Euthyphro thinks his dad is a murderer. WEEK 3 – Plato’s Meno: What is virtue? Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society. 1.1 Week 1 Preview: Introduction to Information Architrcture. Future Cities Laboratory. Future Cities Laboratory.