Archifest Zero Waste Pavilion
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Singapore新加坡 Pavilion展览 270 M² Architecture建筑设计 2012

As the winning entry for the Archifest 2012 Pavilion Competition, the Zero-Waste Pavilion was a collaborative effort by WOW Architects and the Archifest organizers to create a flexible event space that also embodied the festival's central theme of "Rethinking Singapore."

By reusing materials in a new way to extraordinary functions and delight, the Pavilion manages to engage and inspire participants and visitors in line with the thematic program of Archifest.

Zero-Waste Construction and Site Specificity

Central to our approach for this pavilion was to create a space that had maximum impact on the Archifest participants, but minimal impact on the site and overall environment. This goal to utilize “zero- waste” construction methods became our guiding principal throughout the design process, detailing, fabrication, on-site installation, and lastly, the dismantling and “afterlife” of the materials used to construct the pavilion.

This zero-waste design considered the full life-cycle of the Pavilion, and the strategy was developed around two highly rapid, deployable and re-useable systems. The first is the main structure composed of steel box-truss system developed for events such as Singapore’s Formula One Night race. The box-truss system, including the roof took just 7 days to assemble.

The design of the pavilion was also site specific with a direct response to the inherent duality of the site. On one side, there is Fort Canning, once know as the “Forbidden Hill” with its quiet, reposeful and almost mythical character. Directly opposite is Clarke Quay, vibrant and bustling with people and activities. In-bewteen is the site (the Foothills) that once was a hive for social activities with the public swimming pool and the National Theatre.

The proposed pavilion seeks to mitigate the duality between the two realms, with its permeable skin. The undulating web inspires curiosity and amazement as well. At certain angles, the membrane looks solid like a wall, and when one moves along it, a “moire” effect is created due to the juxtaposition of the two membranes. When viewed on the perpendicular, the pavilion seems totally transparent and merges with the surrounding buildings and landscape.

Rethinking Architecture as a Collaborative Process to Engage Public Awareness

The limited budget and time for the construction meant that the project relied heavily on volunteers to turn the concept into a reality. This collaboration was on many levels: from the initial planning work with the festival organizers to the contractors and suppliers who donated materials and manpower and to the installation of the many of the design elements like the Wedelia plants and straw mats which required many weekends of planting and production work from volunteers. The architecture was not just in the form of the pavilion but in the organization and programming to get the public involved in the making of the pavilion.

Interactive Skin as Social program and Climatic Response

The Pavilion design was intended to be a “highly interactive platform” for the activities of the Archifest. Normally used as a subterranean soil control technology for slopes, the VersiWeb adopted new use as a vertical surface onto which to project, insert, interact and engage with the public. Straw mats were inserted in the “pockets” for visitors to use while they participate in seminars or picnics around the Pavilion. The recycled bottle Wedelia planters were also inserted to add greenery and interesting texture to the membrane.

The notion of public space and place is explored with four distinct zones formed by the "Skin". There is the enclosed naturally ventilated space for seminars and talks, the open to the sky corridor space for break-out conversations, the semi-open sheltered place for art installations and the open air space for picnics and cinema shows.
By cladding this cellular membrane on both sides of the structure, a double skin is created with forms a micro-climate between the skins to provide natural ventilation, shade and rain protection for the Pavilion.

Rethinking Temporality of Architecture and its contribution to Society and the Environment

Once the event came to an end the Pavilion was quickly dismantled and its components distributed to various locations around the city to be reused. The steel box-truss was returned to the contractor for future events including Singapore’s National Day parades. The VersiWeb was given to the National Parks Board to be used in Fort Canning Hill’s slopes for control hillside soil erosion. Architecture celebrates icons and permanence, but the Pavilion exemplified the opposite: a celebration in the temporary, with the very reason for existence is based on its capability to be recycled and repurposed into other uses.

“零浪费阁”(Zero-Waste Pavilion)是新加坡建筑节2012的获奖作品之一,由华纳黄设计•哇建筑设计和建筑节主办单位共同创造,以灵活的活动空间体现建筑节的核心主题——“反思新加坡”。

通过运用崭新的手法去重新使用旧材料,我们打造出功能强大和赏心悦目的“零浪费阁”,并成功地吸引和启发建筑节专题节目的目标参与者和参观者。

零浪费建筑方式和基地的专属性

亭阁的设计主旨是创造一个具有双重特性的空间,在最大程度上影响建筑节参与者的同时,也尽量不破坏基地和整体环境。使用“零浪费”施工方法的目标,成为了我们的指导原则,引领着我们在设计过程、细节设计、制造、现场装置,以及最后在拆卸和分配构建材料时的想法和决定。

“零浪费”的设计考虑到亭阁的整个生命周期,其建造策略围绕着两个可快速轻易地安装和重复使用的系统而行。第一个系统是利用为新加坡一级方程式夜间赛事件而开发的箱型钢桁架组成的主体结构,整个系统包括屋顶只用了7天的时间便组装完成。

此外,亭阁的设计直接反映出基地固有的二元性,与基地有着明确具体的关系。在基地的一边是曾经被称为“禁地之丘”的福康宁(Fort Canning),寂静安宁而虚幻神秘;另一边是克拉码头,活力澎湃而喧闹繁华。两地之间就是基地所在(The Foothills),也曾是熙熙攘攘的公共游泳池和国家剧场的旧址。

亭阁设计企图利用通透的网格,去缓解两个领域之间的二元性。同时,起伏的网格也能令人感到惊叹和好奇。从某些角度观察,网格就像坚固的墙壁。由于两个网格并列,所以当人沿着它移动时,“莫尔效应”就会产生,让人看到奇幻浮动的波纹。当人观察其垂直面时,整个亭阁又仿佛消失了,融入了周围的建筑和景观之中。

反思建筑如何能够成为吸引公众参与的合作过程

建造“零浪费阁”的预算和时间有限,促使我们大量依赖志愿者的协助,去让概念成真。这种合作是多层面的:从与建筑节主办单位进行初步规划工作,到邀请承包商和供应商捐赠材料和出借人力,以至洽商志愿者利用无数个周末去装置、种植和制造许多设计组件,例如蟛蜞菊植物和草席。在这儿,建筑并不局限于亭阁的形式,也同时体现于吸引公众参与建造的组织和计划。

利用互动式网格与公众交流及回应天气变化

亭阁的设计用意是建造一个有利于举行建筑节活动的“高互动性平台”,其主要建材“VersiWeb”网格一般被用来固定斜坡的地下土壤,以防水土流失,在这里却史无前例地被用来建构垂直的表面,在吸引公众和促进交流的同时,添加和展现令人意想不到的可能性。我们把种植在旧塑料瓶中的蟛蜞菊和草席随意地放在网格之中,让参与者在亭阁附近参与研讨会或野餐时欣赏和使用,同时为亭阁增添绿意和有趣的纹理。

通过以网格幕墙规划出的四个不同区域,我们试着重新探讨公共空间和地点的定义。这四个区域分别是:适合举行研讨会和讲座的自然通风有顶盖空间;适合小组畅谈的开放式走廊;适合摆放艺术装置的半开放式空间;及适合野餐和播放电影的户外空间。
通过利用多孔的网格包裹结构两边,双重外层之间形成了微气候,让亭阁可以自然通风,也为它遮阳挡雨。


反思建筑的时间性及其对社会和环境的贡献

当建筑节结束后,亭阁被快速拆除,而其组件被分配到本地的不同地点,以被循环利用。箱型钢桁架被送还给承包商,以作未来的活动包括新加坡国庆日游行之用。VersiWeb网格被捐赠给国家公园局,以用来控制福康宁山坡的水土流失。建筑常常象征着地标和持久性,但“零浪费阁”正好体现了相反的特性:它代表临时性,而且其存在的理由是基于它能够被循环利用,以作其他新的用途。

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