A simple factory building design by him, and the factory building located in an industrial area of Singapore. The existing factory height was one storey and because the land function changed, so it allows the building up to four storey height. There are few request he need to solve form the clients, reduce the solar heat into the building, and maximum the openings, more views, and transparency. The degree of perforation varies to create openness and privacy in relation to programming. The façade is seen as an anamorphic pattern. This interference is purposeful, it calibrates the building as an option device for the performance of inhabitation. The distinct architectural categories of roof, façade and ceiling are merged in to a continuous deep envelop.

Made use the urban sustainability construction material EIFS (exterior insulation & finishing system) that wraps the exterior building facade/building skin to modulate the temperature and create high inhospitable for atmosphere. Air movement always be free and cool in this building with the designed in cross ventilation and the high volume of the vertical courtyard at the building centre itself. The natural light shading created while through the veil shields and the deflects rain from the building proper.

SIMPLE FACTORY BUILDING

1000 SINGAPORES

35 meter long physical model and it's collected all the Singapore buildings stick on the lightweight EIFS ventilation

blocks and long corridor with the 1:1000 scale landscape model located middle of the space. The intension of the design is to translate the sustainable urban form for the future like the history timeline process wide variety of landscapes, housing typologies, programmes, and densities, holistically exhibiting a city...etc.

Is the singled-family house surround by the green environment and the cladding material is the aluminium thermal veil folded in relief covers opaque and transparent surfaces alike. The house look solid but it's lightweight. The veil given home privacy and inside out of green connection. It's impress to atmosphere connection with natural light and air movement.

HUT HOUSE

STEREOSCOPIC HOUSE

facades features operable veiled panels with a custom perforated panel to be used to give a inside out atmosphere connection . Materials to be consider used aluminium is to represent the lightweight of the building and timber finish is to represent the natural/environment respond. You will feel the air move surrounding with you and temperature changes due to the atmosphere from inside out of the building itself. Ideally for this housing is to make atmosphere have a connection with architecture such like water, landscape and visual/environment. It's have a good experience interior design with natural sunlight (diffused & reflected) and air movement.

Q: what about your research for hot & wet while develop in urbanisation?

A: 2 forms, one is the model exercise and investigate the performance how develop the work, the interesting part is how going to design in construction system such like structure system. Another one is the methodology from religion and he believe it's will affected the environments, like how going to design for responding the environment between like Malaysia and Singapore.

INTERVIEW WITH ERIK L"HEUREUX

Is an American architect and his primary role is academic and educator. The secondary roles is as a researcher and working to synthesis design research and design practice. The principles are used to reduce and simplify always in his architecture. He like to testing and trying out with different material and formal configurations. He more interested in architectural envelops with the sustainable materials/opaque materials while have well treatment/responding to atmosphere. From the knowledge of hot and wet design, is like a climatic mediums impact architecture form and atmosphere. But It's is not simple scientific/thermal performance in tropical topic and constructs observable to atmosphere in space. Basically, "Hot & Wet" design is to represent the 2 atmosphere with different temperature and different places. Tropical country is good representative such like malaysia and singapore. It's about the different religion create different social/culture activities, the climatic of the environment changes and the methodology of research about the nature. It's like a learn and experience the respectful and responding to the atmosphere.

Erik L'Heureux

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A talk by Erik I’ Heureux on ‘ Hot and wet’ in Publika one week ago is about the tropical building design for equatorial zone where this zone experiance hot, wet, humid and breezy climate throughout the year. Thus, he decided to focus and research on a few tropical countries like Nigeria, India, Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia, and know how the buildings in urban of those countries are designed.

Question 1: Is the tropical building design suitable to be applied in mediteranean country (europe country etc) building design instead of tropical country? And why ?

Based on his talk, building in tropical country need to be dynamically design, where the form of building need to be dynamic to suit the rapid wind flow and air circulation of tropical climate throughout the year. Besides, dynamically designed building form camouflage with the surrounding irregular and dynamic landscpe.

Apart from that, the roof of the building need to be high enough in order to enhance the air circulation within the building. Thus, exccessive thermal stored within the building can be ventilated out from the building and enhance the air circulation and cool down the temperature within the building.

Whereas, for building in mediteranean climate, the high roof will eliminate the heat stored in the building where the owner required it the most during cold seasons. More cold air will flow in which lowered the interior building temperature. Thus a lower roof level is more suitable in mediteranean country to maintain the amount of heat stored in the building.

A tropical building must also have a holed- facade ( that allow air to flow through it anytime). This facade design not only promote sustainability ( rely only on nature wind) in tropical building but also able to cool down the temperature within the building since the building is exposed to hot climate throughout the year.

But this designed is not applicable for mediteranean climate building, because a constant high wind level during autumn and winter will decrease the temperature within the building, which make the owner feel cold inside the building. Thus an opaque and fully solid facade is needed to protect the owner from cold temperature outside.

The building designed in tropical country also need to have more openings or open spaces that expose to direct skylight. This designed is not only sustainable ( save electricity during day time) but also can further enhance nature wind flowing through the building for cooling effect in tropical country.

On the contrary, for building in mediteranean country, building with less opening or less exposure to outside is required. This is because the sun is too hot during the summer and the snow is too cold during winter. The large opening of the building will exposure the interior of the building to extreme temperature and thus cause the interior of the building to be too hot or too cold which is not comfortable for the owner.

As Erik I’ Heureux’ s talk sounds like, malay traditional house design strategy is the most suitable to be applied in tropical country building design as it has a high pitch roof, well- ventilated stilt facade and elavated floor from the ground. This kind of design enhance the wind flow through the building during hot days, elavated floor reduce the wet and humid of the ground from entering the building.

Photo 1.1: the deep veils designed to allow constant air flow through the building also aid in the aesthetic value of the facade.

Photo 1.2: the patterned shading device of the sky light opening help to beautify the building by creating the unique shadow out of it when there is sky light.

Photo 1.3: the holed facade not only allow the air flow through the room, but also create lighter effect of the wall which show nature light only through the repetitive pattern of facade hole.

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In the talk, he explained few projects he did. Stereoscopic House façade is very interesting it attract my attention, makes me want to understand more about the building. Stereoscopic House design is a combination of sustainable into the resort house. The location of the building located on the reclaimed landscape of Sentosa Island in Singapore. The building was built toward the beautiful view of a natural ocean and artificial golf course. To respond to the climate in Singapore, he add layers of timber cladding to the roof and building façade, for reducing heat transfer into the building. By adding bubbles pattern screens on the opening to allow wind penetrate into the building, and design diagonal space to create the experience of light and shadow with diffused and reflected sunlight into interior spaces. Roof top is design with solar panel to collect sunlight to produce electricity and produce hot-water heating.

Eric L'Heureux

Eric L’Heureux is an American architect based in Singapore. L’ Heureux complete his BA in Architecture form Washington University in 1996 and his MArch from Princeton University in 2000. He won the Wheelwright Prize 2015, with the proposal of, Hot and Wet: The Equatorial City and the Architecture of Atmosphere. The topic is about the dense cities in equatorial area, such as Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Pondicherry, Lagos, and Sao Paulo. He was doing the analysis of traditional and modern building in the extreme weather. He is discovering the strategies that immediate extreme climate condition and mounting pressure of rapid urbanization and climate change. L’Heureux is currently the assistant professor at the National University of Singapore. He is the founder of Pencil Office.

Eric L’Heureux is an architecture that believes atmosphere then climate. He believes atmosphere can explain the site conditions in a better way, which climate cannot explain the condition of rain and others natural situation happen.

Erik L’Heureux,

AIA, LEED AP BD+C is an American architect and educator. Now is currently an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore and leads his own practice, Pencil Office.In topic "hot and wet", he tell us architecture’s historical and potential response to a range of atmospheres such as hot, wet, humid, breezy, artificial, hermetic, and more, it will related social, political, and environmental concerns. So, his design work explores architectural surfaces, skins and envelopes as they interact with an increasingly warming climate.

Before listen the talk, I just climate will affect temperature in building, and make people uncomfortable. But after listen this talk; I came to understand this factor can become his main design concept, and also a big highlight of his design. It have elements will affect it, that are material, shading devices

Stereoscopic House

Location ：

Sentosa Island, Singapore

Design Firm：

Pencil Office

Lead Design Consultant：

Erik G. L’ Heureux AIA, LEED AP BD+C

Architect of Record：

HK HIA & Associates

Area：

708.8 sqm

Example of Stereoscopic House, at Sentosa Island, Singapore,2012. Singapore is a hot and heavily urbanised, island. So,in this building, he use the ironwood timber wrapper to lowers heat gain while giving a dramatic elevation. He also additional layer of timbers cladding is added to the roof, as well as minimizing heat transfer through the kalzip roof and go inside interior space of the building. At exterior part, he is creating a formal approach of deep angular overhang with Irregular and various sizes of holes to block some intense solar and creating nice shadow. He try to mitigating the tremendous environmental impacts of tropical climate.

In addition to using material to reduce climate impact by tropical, that is shading devices. Use A Simple Factory Building as a example. Special of this building have an airy and porous structure that wraps at the front elevation , car porch ceiling, rear elevation, and roof, the veil shields the building from the harsh tropical sunlight while calibrating views to the exterior. The airy and porous structure not just a decoration to attract the attention of people, it also have more particularly in climate-related aspects such as solar shading and ventilation. This structure are shading the building direct sunlight, and because of the degree of perforation varies, so can create openness and privacy in relation to internal programming or office.

A Simple Factory Building

Location ：

Singapore

Design Firm：

Pencil Office

Lead Design Consultant：

Erik G. L’ Heureux AIA, LEED AP BD+C

Architect of Record：

Ayra Architects

Area：

991.8 sqm

Why the airy and porous structure can let the air to circulate as feely as possible? Because centre of this building is empty, and the same time , this building wrap by an airy and porous structure. Then the hot air can easy to out and through the hole. Cold air also come in easy, because of same reason.

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In the talk, he share about his research project which is the study of “modes of atmospheric calibration at urban scale” and how architecture’s historic and potential response to a range of atmospheres which is hot, wet humid, breezy, artificial or hermetic. His project show how knowledge of hot and wet climatic mediums impact architectural form and atmosphere, not the simple thermal performance that is often discussed in tropical circles but really how architecture constructs perceptible atmospheres in space. He is interested in architectural envelopes that operate optically through opaque materials, while providing compelling atmospheres to inhabit and experience. He have often use envelopes, patterns and surfaces to calibrate light and breeze.

PAM TALK - "HOT AND WET" DESIGN

Erik L’Heureux is an American architect, educator, and author based in Singapore. He was born in Jamestown, Rhode Island, received his B.A. in architecture at Washington University in St. Louis in 1996 and his Master from Princeton University in 2000, before founding his firm. Now, Erik L'Heureux pursues architectural research, education and practice in his roles of Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore and Lead Design Consultant for Pencil Office.

During the talk, he share some of his project to us. The project that I most interested in was the Stereoscopic House, a waterfront villa designed for three sister. The architecture manipulates the relationship between atmosphere, water, landscape and view. The façade design with perforated panel to allow lighting, ventilation as well as view. It also created a privacy for the user. Beside, the air well operating to bring light and ventilation to the core of the house. The timber cladding on the exterior intention to reducing the heat gain and also increase the building’s reflectivity.

I love the way the architect design all his work. Each of his project responds to questions of envelope, surface, skin, form, atmosphere, perception and topicality. The designing of the façade to create better looking of exterior and provide maximum indirect sunlight and ventilation, this also create a visual effect from the interior and provide privacy for the user. The atmosphere create by the architecture to the building.

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The second project was the Simple Factory Building. The architect design with the façade to produces shading and deflects rain from the building. The pattern of the façade design created different view form the interior. The tighten pattern at the lower level is to minimize the view to the busy industrial activities of the street below. Open design on the ground floor allow cross-ventilation and Eric separate the building into two at the upper floor which is connected with a walkway. This design maximum the natural sunlight taken.