Timothy Tan Chee Hong--02

Program

Diploma 11，2017

Name

Timothy Tan Chee Hong

Project

Walls: The Instrument of Urban Interior

Introduction

A constellation of hinging walls project lines of association that alternate between scheduled formations to provide a continuous shift in social activities, cultural events, programmatic connectivities and circulations. Consequently such transformation disrupts or aligns a network of urban corridors, stitching across multiple site conditions. The performative wall becomes an instrument that connects, divides, dissolves and negotiates boundaries.

Sited in Deptford, the project is concerned with the increasing divide and detachment of the local residents to their immediate landscape, activities and public-private use of spaces. High promises of North Lewisham Link scheme is critiqued to be a key attribute to Deptford’s rapid gentrification as the city’s fabric gradually irons out into cooperate mediocrity.

The complexities, inequality and lack of uniformity of the streetscape becomes an immediate reflection, and more particularly the generator, of the flexible and informal social order it shelters. Moments of urban interior will be composed of rooms, corners and corridors. The street, planned as a building, is inversed and gradually absorbed into the functions of circulation (of materials, textures, contents, and people) as it retained its roles as public scene.

Links

http://pr2017.aaschool.ac.uk/Timothy-Tan-Chee-Hong