1. KEY IDEA: Different people have different experiences with buildings at different times.
2. KEY IDEA: The sound itself is one kind of material.
2.1. Bicentennial AR: If buildings are to simply adjust to the peoples supposed needs, architects might no longer feel the need to design space phenomenally
2.2. Founders memorial: By having this be a space to honour and celebrate the founding fathers, it will allow architects to design spaces sensitive to the tactility of sound.
3. KEY IDEA: Monuments have the quality to engage with humans over long periods of time.
4. ISSUE: Psuedo Monuments
4.1. Founders Memorial: 38 Oxley Road
4.1.1. The suggestion of converting LKY's home into a museum, where it would simply be a house where tourists would roam about.
4.1.2. PM Lee has recognized it will only be a place where tourists and locals can simply look and make assumptions of the daily experiences that had been lived through in that home. It cannot engage with people over long periods of time. For once you have seen and visited once, you may not want to visit again.
4.2. Bicentennial AR: Singapore River
4.2.1. The Singapore river has been constantly noted as one of Singapores icons, however in the recent years it has been a place where more tourist than locals interact with it.
4.3. Founders Memorial
4.3.1. The Founders Memorial was meant to be an exhibition gallery that honours Singapores Founding Fathers. With a lot of talk about what it should mean for the locals and not about how it'll serve the locals.
5. ISSUE: People designing for people (Rubanisation)
5.1. Spatial and Mindset Change
5.1.1. People are able to engage and interact with each other through rubanisation when more social spaces are created as gathering points, instead of being a dead town
5.1.2. Humans will have different perspectives of the built environment when the image of a city changes, for instance, when rural areas and cities are combined. Will the city look more modernised or traditional based on the materials used?
5.1.3. Rubanisation agrees with the points of towns serving its people, where daily activities shouldn't be segregated but integrated.
5.1.4. Rubanisation would allow for a healthy environment where agriculture could be more dominant in our environment which makes up a green landscape in a city instead of a city being filled with artificial landscaping
5.2. Future of HDB
5.2.1. The push for integrating technology into home lives can fall under designers hyperlabelling spaces and activities of the residents?
5.3. Conserving Urban Heritage
5.3.1. Old buildings are being torn down to build more residential housings for the population. Monuments need not to be physically appearing to be a memorial place, instead, humans' needs should be tackled first before conserving old buildings.
6. ISSUE: Fake environments
6.1. Bicentennial AR
6.1.1. The simulation of the past Singapore River, may have been an exaggeration and not a true representation of how it had been?
6.2. The Future of HDB
6.2.1. Spaces in home or surrounding spaces are designed and built to cater for the advanced development and growing needs that these spaces no longer have their true meanings of how they should have been.
7. KEY IDEA: Architecture is not an image.
8. KEY IDEA: Towns no longer serve the people in them.
9. ISSUE: Technology for the people
9.1. Future of HDB
9.1.1. Technology within the building will simply adjust to the needs of people rather that the people adjusting to the homes how they normally would. Possibly eliminates a close relationship with the spaces.
9.1.2. Showcasing this new technology through a series of videos regarding spaces that do not exist yet.
9.1.3. Technological devices might make people to lose the physical interaction with one another when people is immersing in their own worlds
9.2. Bicentennial AR
9.2.1. They used AR as a way to exhibit how the Singapore River was used throughout various eras
9.2.2. SG river is a physical space that the different gens were able to spend time with, through the use of AR, they are able see the difference in the experiences? And how the space transcended over time.
9.2.3. An attempt to replace the lost of connection to the surrounding and historical context?
10. ISSUE: BUILDINGS FOR PROFITS
10.1. Conserving Urban Heritage
10.1.1. Some buildings with historical and architectural significance were demolished and the site is rebuilt with commercial buildings due to the scarce source of land.
10.2. Future of HDB
10.2.1. The HDB started of by wanting to provide space for the homeless but throughout the year, it has been improved upon with more common spaces
10.2.2. But how affordable is HDB nowadays? Do they solve the homeless problem
10.2.3. Why are buildings like condominium or landed properties being built for the sake of profits?
10.2.4. What come after this mindset is that many of the buildings lost the sense of connection to the surroundings
10.2.5. They are designed in such a way that they are able to complete the project and put on sale very fast to crate maximum profits
10.2.6. The designs are mostly mass produced. Lost the sense of connection to the people. Many become temporary housing for the family.
10.3. Bicentennial AR
10.3.1. The Singapore River is developed into a well known tourist spot. by boosting tourism in the area, the historical context and the connection of the river to the people is lost over the period of time.
10.3.2. Thus, by introducing in AR, the government is attempting to draw back the connection to the surrounding.