/  INTRODUCTION

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Singapore, an urbanised city with a growing population - particularly known for its high- density developments such be the achievement of stacking its citizens in vertical communities.  An agenda to promote ethnic diversity in the community as a result of the racial riots in the early years and also to solve the issue of the lack of proper housing.  As the years passed, one can observe the paradigm shift from quantity to quality in today’s public housing schemes.  Hence, we ask ourselves, what’s next? What’s the need for future housing?

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/  ISSUE

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“As Singapore grew more affluent and as global architectural fashions changed, those heroic tropical-modernist forms were to quietly disappear. They were replaced by an architecture that itched to assert Singapore’s worldliness, but the designs became increasingly generic, many of the developments were implicitly anti-social, and the structures were unsustainably non-tropical.”   - Group8asia

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Most Singaporeans have grown to become egocentric. People are more objective-driven, oblivious to the changes in their surroundings that happen from day to day. There is this lack in communication a social gap in the society, a barrier that makes people look less friendly than they truly are. There is a lack of connectivity. We need to eradicate the egocentric philosophy that has started to mould our society and lifestyle. By looking at the current state of public housing, only a handful encourages the motion of communal living in an urban context. People simply return home for the sake of seeking refuge from the outside. Very few communicate even with the provision of spaces intended for communality. Thus, there is a need to redesign the public and private domains.

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/  CONCEPT

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The Meridian Axis is designed to be a space that takes advantage of an ephemeral temporality where vertical voids are integrated as catalysts into spaces of transition in the private and public domains to emphasise and expose the ephemeral changes and motion of the dwellers.

 

Rather than creating new spaces to boost communality, the design concept challenges this ideology by attempting to introduce the essence of a cross community along the vertical corridor with the focus on providing opportunities for visual and spatial engagement between the dwellers and their surroundings.