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Our design is aimed to inspire social interactions between students of SUTD through reactive light installations that guide people to a comforting space, relieve them from discomfort, and entertain them, facilitating a mindset that enables social interaction.
Our site scope mainly consists of 2 key Points of Interests: Changi Business Park and SUTD. The people frequenting here lead fast-paced lives, burdened with high work commitments. After multiple site analysis of different places in the area, we concluded that the Chinese Pavilion in SUTD is the most feasible option.
Building’s unique architecture makes the space highly appealing and charming, yet the religious connotations associated with the area conveys that it’s off-limits
The space is located between 2 work-intensive clusters of SUTD: the hostel blocks and the campus center. When properly utilized, it can be made to serve as an oasis of relaxation.
The idea behind this year's theme was as follows
Students of SUTD are esoterically known to "Stay Up Till Dawn" doing their assignments. Imagine yourself in the shoes of one — it is currently 10pm on a Monday but you haven't started on your assignments and revision for your upcoming tests. You are immensely stressed and crave some alone time to rest up but since everyone around you is facing a similar situation, you would like to take a break someplace outside of school. However, it takes too much time to travel and usually requires planning beforehand.
Faced with this dilemma, you roam the school grounds trying to find a nice relaxation spot nearby. As you walk from the hostel lobby, you spot an eye-catching hologram of a wisp and decide to approach it. You try to interact with it but it suddenly disappears and other "wisps" appear that illuminate a walkway to the Chinese Pavilion. Your curiosity is peaked and you follow the "wisps" towards the building. As you approach it, the transparent glass doors reveal a fascinating luminescent lights hanging from the ceiling and you enter the building to explore more. You notice brightly lit doors that lead to the other half of the building. As you walk towards them, the scenic lighting around you makes you feel a bit relaxed.
As you pass through the doors, you enter an other area where students are seen relaxing. The whole place takes on a different feel from the previous half of the site. The serenity and surrounding activity makes you feel comfortable and you decide to take a break in one of the soft seats.
Among the under-utilized spaces in our site scope, we found that SUTD’s Chinese Pavilion was the optimum choice to work with. This is because we need not consider legal factors, hazardous factors and maintenance-related factors as we would for any potential plans in public areas. Moreover, as SUTD students ourselves, we are closer to the faculty and various management offices, making it easier to propose plans for reutilizing an existing space.
As part of our research, we identified our target audience to be predominantly students of SUTD. Subsequently we launched a survey to determine the proportion of burnt-out students in the area, and what they would attribute it to.