Design project

Thanks all for the presentations on Firday. The issues that were raised will be looked into, particularly the various odd results that you got form some of the simulations.

Now for the next stage. Here is the brief:

• The site is one square kilometer (1km x 1km) in the Marina Bay area. Please see the houdini file for the exact location: http://files.patrick.janssen.name/2010/site.zip
• The task is to develop a proposal for a mixed-use urban morphology that is high density and that also provides good quality of life.
• Mixed-use in this case means that the number of people working in the area should be equal to the number of people living in the area.
• High density means an overall ratio of 5 (i.e. 5 million sq meters). This ratio is a little bit lower than the existing URA proposal for Marina Bay.
• Good quality of life means thinking about various issues that make life enjoyable. These will include daylight, ventilation, views, privacy, open spaces, good transport, noise, etc. The importance of these issues will be different for residential, commercial , and office.

For the site, you will need to consider how to connect to the 4 different edge conditions:

• North West: Shenton Way, Robinson Road and the CBD
• North East: Buildings on the Harbour Front, including The Sail
• South East: land to be developed at a later stage - plot ratio to be approximately 10.
• South West: ECP express way and container port.