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eco campaign 2015 eco ideas proposal competition
first runner-up
19 June 2015
In this varsity-level competition, participants from all schools present their ideas on ways to decreasing carbon-emission, urban heat island effect and other negative impacts on our environment through ways of waste management, innovative technology or any other methods.
Our team's idea is to revolutionize residential housing plans by redirecting waste from housing units to an urban farming zone. Agriculture with close proximity to the living areas produces organic food back to the residents. This decreases the demand of transportation of food from other places and fully utilize waste as fertilizer, thus making residential houses more self-sustainable.
eco campaign 2015 eco ideas proposal competition
first runner-up
19 June 2015
In this varsity-level competition, participants from all schools present their ideas on ways to decreasing carbon-emission, urban heat island effect and other negative impacts on our environment through ways of waste management, innovative technology or any other methods.
Our team's idea is to revolutionize residential housing plans by redirecting waste from housing units to an urban farming zone. Agriculture with close proximity to the living areas produces organic food back to the residents. This decreases the demand of transportation of food from other places and fully utilize waste as fertilizer, thus making residential houses more self-sustainable.
eco campaign 2015 eco ideas proposal competition
first runner-up
19 June 2015
In this varsity-level competition, participants from all schools present their ideas on ways to decreasing carbon-emission, urban heat island effect and other negative impacts on our environment through ways of waste management, innovative technology or any other methods.
Our team's idea is to revolutionize residential housing plans by redirecting waste from housing units to an urban farming zone. Agriculture with close proximity to the living areas produces organic food back to the residents. This decreases the demand of transportation of food from other places and fully utilize waste as fertilizer, thus making residential houses more self-sustainable.
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in adaptation
project 2: resynthesized: an experiment
Where Project 1A was an attempt to adapt literature into graphical expression of the city, and Project 1B allows us to perceive the ordinary city in an extraordinary way; Project 2 is a synthesis of the surrealism and imaginary in Assignment 1A, and the realism fabric of the existing urban conditions in Assignment 1B. This assignment stretches the idea of ‘adaptation’ further, in the style of how a film maker would overlay an imaginary utopian/dystopian city into the real place.
Chapter 6 of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities expresses the intertwining system of cities where numerous tales arise and fade. The city is alive. It is a cohesively integrated conscience with an entanglement of networks for people to traverse and interact within. By observing various phenomena that occur in the city, we can speculate its future. Situated in the core of Kuala Lumpur, Bukit Bintang is an economic hub that became a magnet for immigrants to find a living. In contrary to that, the local community is aging rapidly and will be displaced as the young migrated to the suburbs or overseas. Thousands of diverse individuals flock into the city as the urbanscape develops exponentially. Levels of Bukit Bintang’s concrete jungle pile upwards as time progresses, resulting in a complex, perplexing labyrinth fueled with the ambience of mistrust and compartmentalisation. Inhabitants of the city lead secret and adventurous lives as the city itself is a volatile dimension. The sense of community diminished as the mission of an individual is merely to survive within a bewildering maze. Social interaction is based on profit. Immigrants form large communities segregated by language or ethnicity.
2042 (25 years later) The local community was entirely displaced as the city continued to grow with new technological development and businesses brought in by immigrants, keeping the inner city alive and bustling. New sets of languages and cultures became the norm in Bukit Bintang as immigrants became the absolute majority. Kuala Lumpur is now a prosperous metropolis due to strong competition between thriving businesses, a trend on the way towards globalization. The city became more complex than ever with new transportation systems, electronic boards and skyscrapers. Thus, barriers are formed between people due to an overwhelming labyrinthine presence of illusions, contradicting the aim of technology to link people together. It is human nature to group themselves with people of their likeness in a realm of uncertainty. In this case, two distinct communities are formed from smaller groups based on linguistic differences, the Indo-Europeans and Afro-Asiatics. As the central government collapsed due to rebellion and the local population fleeing the nation, these two communities seized opportunity and established triads to compete for economic and political control, viewing each other with suspicion.
2067 (50 years later) The future is uncertain. One moment, prosperity; Moments later, downfall and agony. History repeats itself as no city can enjoy its glory eternally. Conflict intensified between two parties and a war erupted when Kuala Lumpur started to fail and become unsustainable. The skirmishes were complicated by the urban terrain’s three-dimensional environment, limited fields of view, below-ground infrastructure and enhanced concealment for defenders. Kuala Lumpur is doomed to ruination. Civilians evacuated and lived in horror and anguish. The devastation became the saddest of their memories. Hundreds of busy lives that were spent without repetition at times of peace, perished with stories yet to be told, succumbed by insatiable greed, the very nature of humanity. The story of the city’s destruction teaches people that peaceful routines are not to be taken for granted. Impermenance lurks and ambush human lives without warning. Networks within a city are for urban adventurers to explore before they change form or be vanquished by deliberate action or time’s progression. No city is the same everytime you visit.
2117 (100 years later) Kuala Lumpur is unrecognizable. Rising sea levels due to global warming engulfed the city’s lower areas. Settlements are built on existing ruins. The aggregate of its citizen’s‘ joy and suffering, various economic doctrines, every artifact that hint the city’s glorious past, every fierce combat fought... all submerged underwater beneath a canal traversed by the city’s surviving descendants. The city is a melancholic stage for temporary people and events. Think of all those economic tycoons and landlords, in glory and triumph, they became the pitiful momentary possessors of power and wealth; Think of all those white-collar workers and toilet cleaners, no matter how indisputable their diligence, are largely indifferent for the city’s future fate. How frequent our misunderstandings, how stranger we are to one another, how fervent our abhorrence towards specific groups, every twist of fate... all vanish like a speck of dust blown by the wind.