Competition

MBKS Bus Stop Design Competition

MBKS (Council of the City of Kuching South) collaborated with PAMSC (Malaysian Institute of Architects Sarawak Chapter) in organizing this bus stop design competition to explore creative bus stop typology.

Urban Line: A bus stop is often made up of a platform, a bench and a shade to make it functional. Similarly, Urban Line is developed around these key elements but beyond conventional bus stop design. It introduced a series of free standing poles with very specific functions such as traffic signals to manage traffics, flexible solar photovoltaic sheets and wind turbines to generate clean and sustainable energies, structural steel post, and general lighting to lid up the place.

The step seating reduced ground level footprint and that allows the ground to be planted, to be used by pedestrian, space for disabled person, and other utilities such as Electrical Vehicle charging station and rubbish bin. While the elevated platforms offer fantastic opportunity for passengers to enjoy the cityscape.

Urban Line expressed an unique combination of structure, architecture, technology, sustainability, landscape and lifestyle into a new bus stop design.

Cardboard City 2018 (Design and Installation)

Cardboard City 2018 was a design competition for students and graduates to explore innovative and creative usages of cardboard through research and design. The 5 shortlisted designs were built as an installation and exhibition together with 'city pavilions' built by various primary school students during the 3 days events.

Our entry for this competition was an outer-space-inspired playground pavilion and it has to be functional to withstand the general weight of the kids. At the same time, the design has to be ergonomic so that the overall dimension fits to the size of its user, kid.

Team: Liaw Kheng Boon, Clement Loh, Ronald Wong, Ting Siaw Ning

The Go Beyond Design Challenge

The Go Beyond Design Challenge, a design competition that is yearly organised by Ong and Ong, a multi-disciplinary design firm based in Singapore. Back in 2016, the brief required participants to address the destiny of used shipping containers as residential components which was one of the hot design topics during that time.

Symbiosis Living: When we looked at the root of a shipping container, its original usage and the availability of used containers and abandoned cargo ship, we decided to develop a concept around the idea of putting used shipping containers back to the abandoned container or cargo ship. This combination will create a "floating residence" for the refugees around the world.

There are so many refugees who have no identity nor the right to stay in a country. Due to various concerns in terms of politic, capacity, social security, capability and etc, they were not welcomed by many countries. So our concept is to create a temporary community at open sea where no country has the right to expel them, and allow the ship to cruise from country to country to drop off refugees at countries who willing to receive them, and pick up refugees from the countries of origin.

Team: Liaw Kheng Boon, Richang Hong, Ting Siaw Ning

ITAD Design Competition

ITAD Design Competition calls for an innovative design proposal for an office building with a site within Singapore.

Living Pocket: We selected a an empty site at near Marina Bay Sand, and next to the site was a popular spot for kite and wau flying. The concept took inspiration from the adjacent activity which is reflected on the fluidity of the form and facade. At the same time, we were also inspired by the pockets of green within the Singapore's urban which we applied this inside the building. We amplified and multiplied the greens so that the users of the building would enjoy the maximum advantage from the green pockets despite of high up in the air.

The infinity loop layout allows bicycle to travels smoothly with gentle curve and ramp. This largely avoided sharp turn and steep ramp which can be uncomfortable to the cyclist and accident may occur. Another interesting feature within the building is the change of level alternatively, which encouraged interaction between people at one space and another, and bringing people's eye level closer to the canopy of a tree instead of the trunk.

Team: Liaw Kheng Boon, Richang Hong