NUS ARCHICAD DESIGN BIM COMPETITION Shophouse New Generation COMPETITION CONDITIONS The competition starting in 16 December 2014 is opened for team entrants in NUS Department of Architecture. Each Team Entrant may comprise of up to three members. All members of a Team Entrant must be 2nd year through 5th year students. The use of Teamwork is advised. The competition will be posted in www.graphisoft.com.sg together with the link for IVLE materials download and the folder for the submission in IVLE. SITE For reference, all teams must use the Baba House (157 Neil Rd, Singapore 088883) site as their boundaries, the same front, height and depth of the plot. The proposed project has to be inserted in the row of shophouses in the same site as the Baba House. There will be two scheduled visits to the Baba House to be arranged and announced trough IVLE platform. CONTENT Through times, the construction and the elements of the shophouses have evolved due to many factors such as technical developments in construction technology and methodology, considerable economic changes and even social or cultural developments. All teams will propose their own ideas. The “New Generation” Shophouse needs to satisfy modern-days’ comforts and convenience requirements and take into consideration that Singaporeans’ lifestyle is constantly evolving. The Shop The contestants should decide regarding the use and design the “Shop” for a particular business trade or make it available for multi-purpose business use. The “House” It should be designed for a traditional residential use for a single or multiple families, whilst the space should be flexible enough to cater for the modern-days’ rapidly changing requirements. Factors considered should be include lifestyle, needs, vernacular, culture, social factors, climate and what local people consider a place to be “one’s home”. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS The students will submit their projects through the IVLE platform. The submission should comprise one zipped folder using the following NUS ARCHICAD BIM COMPETITION Shophouse New Generation naming convention: NAMEOFTHETEAM_NAMEOFTHEMEMBERS.zip All Team Entrants are required to submit: • 1 panel of DIN-A1 size (59.4, 84.1cm) in .pdf format containing: All necessary plans, elevations, and relevant sections At least one rendering with insertion on the Baba House location (157 Neil Rd, Singapore 088883) • • The ArchiCAD model in .pla file format The BIMx model published directly from ArchiCAD. On the panel, each of the teams need to define a title describing the major idea of the project, together with a 250-words summary of the main points of this idea. The submission must be done through the competition website, on or before the submission deadline of 6pm on 30 January 2015. No submissions will be accepted by e-mail or any other medium. The submission page will be automatically closed upon the expiry of the submission deadline, not allowing any modifications or aggregations after that, so please, try to upload your project well in advance. For further information regarding uploading your submission, please read the upload process written on the IVLE. All existing materials regarding the “Baba House” provided for the competition use will also be available on the website. LANGUAGE All entries must be submitted in English EVALUATION CRITERIA • • • • • Compliance with the design brief, Creativity of the design idea, Quality of the functions and spaces created, Adaptation of the shophouse concept to nowadays constantly changing requirements, Skills in performing, communicating and describing your idea via the use of the ArchiCAD BIM technology, including: - consistency of the BIM model using the priority based connections - quality and accuracy of Drawings originated directly from the model - quality of the renders created by the use of ArchiCAD CineRender for, the internal and external spaces, - quality of the BIMx file. NUS ARCHICAD BIM COMPETITION Shophouse New Generation EXHIBITION The work of short-listed finalists will be exhibited in the gallery of the “Baba house” after March 2015. WINNERS The winners will be announced at the joint NUS-GRAPHISOFT international BIM event organized on 13th February 2015. THE PRIZES The prizes will be awarded to the Teams in the form of vouchers to be spent at a designated electronics store: 1st PRIZE – S$1,500 voucher 2nd PRIZE – S$1,000 voucher 3rd PRIZE – S$750 voucher JURY • NUS : Department of Architecture • NUS : Museum Member • GRAPHISOFT : Bence Kovacs – General Manager of Graphisoft Japan, VP, Asia The Software can be downloaded from www.myarchicad.com NUS ARCHICAD BIM COMPETITION Shophouse New Generation Context Concept of the traditional shophouse A shophouse is a vernacular architectural building type that is commonly seen in areas such as urban Southeast Asia. Shophouses are mostly two or three stories high, with a shop on the ground floor for mercantile activity and a residence above the shop. This hybrid building form characterises the historical centres of most towns and cities in the Southeast Asia region. • Multi-functional Typically, shophouses consist of shops on the ground floor which open up to a public arcade or "five-foot way", and which have residential accommodation upstairs. As its name suggests, a shophouse often contains a shop with separate residential spaces. More generally, space occupied by the former contains a semi-public function. While this usually is, and historically usually was, a shop, it could just as easily be a food and beverage outlet (e.g. coffeeshop or bar), a service provider (e.g. clinic or barber), an industrial activity (e.g. cottage industry or auto workshop) or a community space (e.g. a school or clan association). Residential spaces are meant to accommodate one or more families, or serve as a dormitory for single workers. • Low rise Shophouses are generally low rise buildings. They have a minimum of one floor, but shophouses with two storeys are abundant, while three storey shophouses are typically present in more prosperous and densely built up central areas. • Narrow fronts, deep rears Shophouses have narrow street frontages, but may extend backwards to great depths, in some cases extending all the way to the rear street. A number of reasons have been given for the narrow widths of these buildings. One reason relates to taxes, i.e. the idea that buildings were historically taxed according to street frontage rather than total area, thereby creating an economic motivation to build narrow and deeply. Another reason is building technology: the timber beams that carried the roof and floor loads of these structures were supported by masonry party walls. The extent of frontage was therefore affected by the structural span of the timber used. While all shophouses appear, visually, to have similarly narrow widths, these are not uniform and minor variations are the rule, especially when comparing buildings built at different times, by different owners and with different materials or technologies. • Terraced building Shophouses are urban terraced buildings, i.e. standing right next to each other along a street, with no gap or space in between buildings (in similar vein NUS ARCHICAD BIM COMPETITION Shophouse New Generation as a terraced house). Frequently, a single wall separates the shophouses on either side of it. • "Five-foot ways" The covered walkway along the road is within the shophouse property line but is for public use, providing pedestrians shade from sun and rain. A key development was the Raffles Ordinances (1822) for Singapore which stipulated that “all houses constructed of brick or tiles have a common type of front each having an arcade of a certain depth, open to all sides as a continuous and open passage on each side of the street”. • Internal courtyards One of the most important features of the shophouse is the use of a variety of open-to-sky spaces to admit natural daylight as well as natural air. These open-to-sky spaces may be back yards, small airwells and most commonly, internal courtyards. • Party walls The party walls that separate most shophouses from their neighbours are generally constructed out of masonry (usually locally manufactured baked clay bricks) and they are structural, load-bearing walls, i.e. they transfer the weight of the roof and upper floors down to the ground. Party walls marked a major shift from traditional timber post-and-beam frame construction of precolonial Southeast Asia. Masonry was used to bear the heavy loads, to provide privacy and security and, importantly, to serve as a barrier to the spread of fire in a crowded urban settlement. Modern shophouses use similar materials but additionally include reinforced concrete beams. • Roofs Shophouses are typically roofed using orange clay roof tiles. Again, this marks an important shift away from the use of more organic coconut frond thatch (called 'attap') in traditional architecture. The added cost of clay tiles was borne due to their greater durability and especially their resistance to fire. • Floors and beams Traditionally shophouses were built with structural (i.e. load bearing) timber beams which carried the weight of the roof and floors. Floor were similarly made of timber planks, often with narrow gaps in between them to allow air to filter through and to help the building (and its inhabitants) to 'breathe' better. The use of timber beams and floor boards was very much in line with local building traditions. Modern shophouses, on the other hand, use reinforced concrete beams and slabs. • Facade colours NUS ARCHICAD BIM COMPETITION Shophouse New Generation Tourists often enjoy visiting and walking around shophouse districts because of the variety of colours used in their facade decoration. Traditionally, many shophouses would have been plastered an off-white colour. Other popular early colours were indigo and ochre, given the range of available pigments. By the mid-20th century, pastel colours (rose pink, baby blue, light yellow, etc.) became popular, and they remain the colours that most people most strongly associate with these buildings. However, many contemporary or restored shophouses have now taken to using very bold colours, including deep reds, black, silver, gold, purple, etc. • Facade ornamentation Traditional shophouses facade ornamentation draws inspiration from the Malay, Chinese and European traditions. European neo-classical motifs include egg-and-dart moldings and ionic or Corinthian capitals on decorative pillasters. From the Malay building tradition, elaborate woodwork has been borrowed in the form of carved panels. Fascia boards, louvres, screens and fretwork. Finally, from the Chinese tradition comes mythological motifs like phoenixes. Other traditions include the use of Peranakan pastel coloured glazed tiles, often with floral or geometric motifs. The degree of a shophouse's ornamentation depends on the prosperity of its owner and the surrounding area; shophouse facades in cities and (former) boomtowns are generally more elaborate than rural shophouses, which tend to be more spartan in design. In comparison to traditional shophouses, modern variations through the 1950s up until the 1980s were devoid of ornamental decorations and are more often designed for utilitarian purposes. Beginning the 1990s, the buildings began to adopt postmodern and revival styles. (source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shophouse) NUS ARCHICAD BIM COMPETITION Shophouse New Generation
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