Research Award

Next Residential High-Rise

with Oliver Heckmann

Resulted in a research collaboration with Arup Singapore Pte Ltd

Award

Carbon Activated Timber Bench

Award

Generic Dwelling Templates for Future Urban Habitation

Award

Tiny Threads / Massive Blocks

Award

German Design Council

Award selection process by invitation only

Exhibition

Future Hybrid Highrise Commune

URA (Urban Redevelopment Authority) Gallery, Singapore

Exhibition

17th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition

Contribution to the Singapore National Pavilion, to gather: The Architecture of Relationships

Averaging 465 visitors per day to the Singapore Pavilion (82,000+ visitors as of 15/11/2021)

Exhibition

Exhibition and panel sessions of student work to promote the Architecture and Sustainable Design

Campus Centre, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Exhibition

Public installation to present a research project on fibre reinforced wood and mycelium panels, as part of the BCA Pavilion at the Green Building Week 2019; Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre

Design, development and installation with Kenneth Tracy and Christien Yogiaman

Exhibition

Public installation to present ASD research as part of the Green Building Week 2018

Design, curatorial work, execution planning, with student helpers, Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre

Exhibition

Design development in collaboration with BCA for the Built Environment Week 2019

With Kenneth Tracy and students, Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre

Exhibition

Singapore Exhibition Pavilion

Contribution to exhibition design and fabrication design of panels / panel connectors, with Chong Keng Hua, Carlos Banon, Felix Raspall, Kenneth Tracy, Christine Yogiaman

Exhibition

Public exhibition to present SUTD

Design, curatorial work, execution planning and coordination of contractors, with Anna Toh Hui Ping

Exhibition

Exhibition at New Busan International Passenger Terminal in Busan, South Korea

Featured project: Metallhandel Grassmayr

Exhibition

Innovative Technologies

Reconceptualisation of exhibition for display in Korea, with Marcel Bruelisauer, Lin Kuek, Matthias Mast, Tobias Wullschleger,

Exhibition

Singapore Expo, insight Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugratnam

Exhibition

Biopolis Singapore, for Urban Redevelopment Authority

Exhibition

Department of Architecture, Hong Kong University

Exhibition

Austrian Pavilion

Exhibition of student work from design studios Patrik Schumacher

Conception and organisation with Georg Grasser

Media Coverage

Carbon Activated Timber on BestDesignSingapore

Media Coverage

Announcement of A'Design Award for Carbon Activated Timber Bench

Media Coverage

Future Hybrid Highrise Commune on indesignlive.sg

Media Coverage

Future Hybrid Highrise Commune on ArchDaily

Part of the Singapore Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition

Media Coverage

Carbon Activated Timber Bench on INSPIRATIONIST.net

Media Coverage

Carbon Activated Timber Bench on DESIGNERS.org

Media Coverage

Interview on the role of sustainable building design in cities

International broadcasting on ORF Austria, 3Sat, ARTE (Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, and more)

Broadcast: Newton Wissenschaft; Saturday, 21/10/2017, 18:40 – 19:10 Uhr; TV Station: ORF 1; Repeated broadcasts: ORF 2, 3sat, tvthek.orf.at; Duration: 25 Min; By Claudia and Peter Giczy

Filmed on SUTD campus

Media Coverage

Salzburger Nachrichten newspapers with a reach of 2.3 million readers (Wikipedia), 1-page article on the research project Next Generation Highrise and the exhibition at the Venice Biennale in Architecture

Digital tools for resilience: calculating our way to net-zero cities

Spring 2021

Media Coverage

Arup Research Review, external-facing publication showcasing the best research at Arup. Issue 4 proposed 16 pieces focusing on resilience, Net-Zero, and Circular Economy, to give a representative sample of our current research portfolio. Previous issues counted over 2,900 reads.

Interview for Research Magazine on Smart Cities

pdf download at https://www.arup.com/-/media/arup/files/publications/r/arup-research-review_rethinking-systems1.pdf

11 2017

Media Coverage

Interview on the role of sustainable building design in cities

International broadcasting on ORF Austria, 3Sat, ARTE (Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, and more)

Broadcast: Heißes Pflaster Stadt Warum wir mehr Pflanzen brauchen; Wednesday, 12/12/2018, 18:40 – 20:15 Uhr; TV Station: 3sat; Duration: 52 Min; By Claudia and Peter Giczy

Supported by Austrian Broadcasting Company ORF and various agencies like the Austrian Ministry of Technology and Innovation BMVIT, the Austrian Climate and Energy Funds KLIEN and the City of Vienna

Filmed on SUTD campus (SUTD featured at 1:22)

Media Coverage

Project Campus, Season 2 Episode 3

For SINDA on Education and Research at SUTD

Media Coverage

Singapore Revealed – Planning Singapore

Broadcast on Channel News Asia, 2nd March 2014 8:00pm

Media Coverage

TEC 21

Article by Lilian Pfaff on design research studio

Editors: J. Solt et al, Zurich

ISSN 1424-800X

Media Coverage

Build Smart Magazine

Article by Minister for National Development Khaw Boon Wan

Building Construction Authority (BCA)

Editors: Leong Ee Leng

BCA 2012

Research Project

PI

Research collaboration with Hilti Corporation, Liechtenstein

Research Project

Collaborator; Lucienne Blessing (Lead PI)

Pedagogy Leadership Grant

Research Project

Collaborator; Lucienne Blessing (Lead PI), Lim Kwan Hui (PI), MOE Tier 3 Grant, MOE2020-TRF029

Research Project

Principal Investigator; with Mohan Rajesh Elara and Teo Su Chern (Co-PI)

Pedagogy Innovation Grant 2021-1171

Research Project

Principal Investigator; with Oliver Heckmann (PI), with Arup

Research Project

Principal Investigator; with Kenneth Tracy (Co-PI), with Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd

Research Project

Principal Investigator; with Kenneth Tracy (Co-PI), for Building Construction Authority (BCA)

Research Project

Principal Investigator; with Oliver Heckmann (PI), Lynette Cheah (Collaborator), 1 Post-Doc Researcher (0272019 – present), 1 Research Assistant (10/2018 – present)

Funded by the SUTD-MIT International Design Centre

Research Project

10% Collaborator; with Belinda Yuen (PI)

LKY Centre for Innovative Cities

Research Project

Co-Principal Investigator; with Tan Szue Hann (PI) and Surbana Jurong, Nanayang Technological University (Co-PI), industrial collaborators

1 Research Assistant (11/2017 - present)

Research Project

Principal Investigator; with Kenneth Tracy (Co-PI), for Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd

Research Project

Co-PI, Centre of Digital Design and Manufacturing (DManD)

Design and Robotic Fabrication of 3D composites

Research Project

MOE Tier 1 Grant

Co-Principal Investigator, with Asst Prof Alstan Jakubiec (PI)

Analysis of architectural elements for tropical climates; investigations into the performance of tropical architectural elements, their construction designs and parametric variability

1 Research Assistant (06-09/2017), 1 Research Assistant (03/2017-08/2018)

Research Project

With Ascott Ltd

Undergraduate research opportunity programme (UROP), project with a team of 2 faculty members and 5 students on new design and technological solutions for the front desk operations of service apartments. Industrial partner Ascott Ltd is the world’s largest service apartment owner-operator with currently around 25.000 apartments under three brands

Research Project

Principal Investigator

Lamination processes for the design of spatial and multi-performative structural surfaces; timber lamination, lamination processes, multi-material lamination

1 Research Assistant (04-08/2015), 1 Research Assistant (11/2017-12/2018)

Scientific Appointment

Peer Review

Association for Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, University of Sydney, Australia

Scientific Appointment

Peer Review

Elsevier Publishers, CiteScore: 9.9; Impact Factor: 4.867

Scientific Appointment

Peer Review

Association for Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, Hong Kong (online)

Scientific Appointment

Scientific Committee

Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design

http://simaud.org/2021/organizers.php

Scientific Appointment

Peer Review

9th Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Scientific Appointment

Peer Review

Springer Nature Publishers

Scientific Appointment

Peer Reviewer

Association for Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, Bangkok, Thailand

Scientific Appointment

Scientific Committee

Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design

Scientific Appointment

Peer Review

Springer Nature Publishers

Scientific Appointment

Peer Review

SAGE Publishers, CiteScore: 1.3; SJR: 0.279

Scientific Appointment

Peer Reviewer

Association for Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia

Scientific Appointment

Scientific Committee

Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design

Scientific Appointment

Paper Review Committee

Association for Robots in Architecture

http://www.springer.com/engineering

/robotics/journal/41693

Scientific Appointment

Scientific Committee

Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design

Scientific Appointment

Scientific Committee

4th Annual International Conference on Urban Planning and Property Development

Scientific Appointment

Peer Reviewer

Association for Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia

Scientific Appointment

Program Committee

Symposium of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures

Scientific Appointment

Jury Member

Rethinking The Future Architecture, Construction & Design Awards

Scientific Appointment

Scientific Committee

3rd Annual International Conference on Urban Planning and Property Development

Scientific Appointment

Peer Reviewer

Association for Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia

Suzhou, China http://www.springer.com/engineering/robotics/journal/41693

Scientific Appointment

Peer Reviewer

Springer Publishers

http://www.springer.com/engineering

/robotics/journal/41693

Scientific Appointment

Member of the Scientific Committee and Peer Reviewer

Annual International Conference on Urban Planning and Property Development

Scientific Appointment

Collaborating Researcher

Alternative Construction Materials: Bamboo, Grasses And Waste, Singapore ETH Centre

Scientific Appointment

Member of the Scientific Committee and Peer Reviewer

Conference on Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design, Sydney, 2016

http://www.robarch2016.org

Scientific Appointment

Associate Editor

Editorial Board of Digital Architecture (specialty section of Frontiers in Digital Humanities)

Scientific Appointment

Review Editor

Editorial Board of Sustainable Design and Construction (specialty section of Frontiers in Built Environment)

Scientific Appointment

Peer Reviewer

Fabricate International Peer Reviewed Conference and Publication, ETH Zurich, 2014

http://www.fabricate2014.org

Scientific Appointment

Advisory Board

Conference on Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design, Vienna, 2012

http://www.robarch2012.org

Symposia (Organised)

0

With Associate Professor Rudi Stouffs, NUS

Organisation of the first joint SUTD-NUS PhD Symposium in Architecture Design

0

asd.courses.sutd.edu.sg/phd

with Eddie Siu-Kit Lau, Zdravko Trivic, Yuan Chao (all NUS), Eva Castro, Chog Keng Hua, Peter Ortner, Bige Tuncer, Zheng Kai (all SUTD)

Symposia (Organised)

Exhibition and discussion of student work for a workshop with Hiroshi Naito,

ASD Design Studio 2, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Organised with TOTO Singapore

Hiroshi Naito (Architect, Japan; distinguished Lecturer); Erwin Viray (HOP ASD, SUTD), Ling Hao (Architect, Singapore)

Symposia (Organised)

Symposium at SUTD

Co-organisation with Lai Chee Kien, Adjunct Assoc Prof SUTD, supported by the Pillar of Architecture and Sustainable Design

Lectures and panel discussion with Mohammad Cahyo Novianto (architect and researcher, Indonesia), Pandin Ounchanum (Asst Prof Chiang Mai University, Thailand), Teoh Chee Keong (Asst Prof UCSI University, Malaysia), Lai Chee Kien, Michael Budig (both SUTD)

Symposia (Organised)

Symposium at National Design Centre, Singapore

Co-organisation with Roland Snooks, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, supported by DesignSingapore Council and hosted by National Design Centre Singapore

Lectures and panel discussion with Fabio Gramazio (ETH Zurich, Gramazio&Kohler), Tobias Wallisser (ABK Stuttgart, LAVA), Roland Snooks (RMIT, kokkugia), Michael Budig (SUTD)

Symposia (Organised)

University of Innsbruck / Obergurgl

Organisation and conception with Georg Grasser

Contributions by Patrik Schumacher, Hanif M. Kara, Tobias Wallisser, Lawrence Friesen, Claudia Pasquero, Wolfgang Rieder, Gernot Riether, Wolfgang Löschnig, Mario Gasser

Teaching

Coordination

0

01.019 Design Integrated Project is a mandatory component for all first-year undergraduate students at SUTD in term 2; students integrate the content from two out of three courses taught in parallel to 3.007 Design Thinking and Innovation. They choose from Physics, Mathematics and Sustainability (previously from Humanities) and use the acquired knowledge to substantiate their design concepts.

Teaching

Introduction to Design

Course lead

0

3.007 Design Thinking and Innovation, mandatory design course for all first-year undergraduate students at SUTD in term 2

asd.courses.sutd.edu.sg/dti

Teaching

Undergraduate and graduate elective studio

Co-teaching with Lai Chee Kien

0

Title: Tectonic Intersections, 20.111 Sustainable Design Studio Option

Investigation into formal and tectonic logics of the tropical house. The condition of the vernacular house is reflected with a discussion on Gottfried Semper’s ‘Four Elements of Architecture’. The further design process transfers abstract concepts into physical models in correlation with parametric design tools.

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Teaching

Architecture and Sustainable Design Pillar

0

Coordination of the Pillar’s PhD programme and ASD Chair to the SUTD Board of Graduate Studies

Increased the number of applications by 35% from 25 to 33 applications/year; increased number of intakes from 3+ to 6+ students/year

Teaching

Undergraduate elective studio

Course Lead

0

Title: Micro-Towers, 20.112 Sustainable Design Studio Option

Design of small tower structures in timber construction, based on physical experimentation in combination with parametric models

asd.sutd.edu.sg > courses

Teaching

Advising graduate students

0

50.112 Thesis Prep in term 1

50.113 Thesis in term 2 of the M.Arch programme

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Teaching

Undergraduate elective studio

0

Title: Building Skins, 20.111 Sustainable Design Studio Option

Focus on a combination of material experimentation in physical models and digital design explorations in parametric models with the ambition to introduce students to a systematic design approach and familiarise them with the concept of design as research

asd.sutd.edu.sg > courses

Teaching

Core seminar on building technologies

Course lead

0

20.201 Architecture Science and Technology, term 4 in the undergraduate curriculum (1st term in the students’ major degree programme), 23 lectures and 12 lab sessions

asd.courses.sutd.edu.sg/ast