tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2021-11-15T10:42:25+08:00 Peatix WY-TO tag:peatix.com,2020:event-1670415 2020-10-17T14:30:00SGT 2020-10-17T14:30:00SGT

FLOWS, Fostering Local Outreach, Welcoming SustainabilityA prototype built in timber structure aimed to provide the homeless with a sustainable shelter.As part of Archifest 2020 ‘Architecture Saving Our World’, our proposed Shelter for the Homeless in Singapore is a collaboration between international architectural Firm WY-TO and the students of the School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), at Singapore Polytechnic, with the support of our wood supplier JCI sponsoring the materials. Conducted during 3 weeks, the Design&Construct Workshop aimed to tackle a little known issue of homelessness and the possibility of creating a sustainable lightweight and transportable shelter. In a recent study by Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policies, it was found that Chinatown has the highest number of homeless people in Singapore. Building on WY-TO’s humanitarian efforts and communities-oriented projects as well as the first Design&Construct workshop held in Phnom Penh in 2017 for The Mobile Lotus, this workshop tapped on WY-TO’s vast experience to develop a design prototype to help the less fortunate reintegrate back to their community through spatial assimilation and programmatic empowerment in a public housing community in Chinatown.The Shelter is now available for viewing at the National Design Centre from 10th October 2020 until 1st November 2020.3 special tours are organised on Saturday 17th October and will be led by the students themeselves who designed and built FLOWS, the Shelter for Homeless. This programme is supported by the DesignSingapore Council and is hosted at the National Design Centre.This event has a limited capacity with safe distancing in place. A group size will have no more than five participants and please adhere to the guideline of no physical interaction or intermingling between different groups. Be responsible and stay safe during the festival!