TRANSIT SPACES (UK, SG)Fabrizo Matillana + Johnny Gao
(UK)
Spaces of transit circulation manage flows of passengers, arriving as groups, individuals, walking, on bikes, on wheelchairs, into an open plan increasingly challenged by new means of passenger transit.
(SG)
An “air-conditioned integrated interchange” materializes as a prescriptive solution to a combination of an increasingly stronger outward entity of the national framework of satellite town planning and a tropical climatic issue.
EATING SPACES (UK, SG)Fabrizo Matillana + Johnny Gao
(UK)
The moment of eating as a moment of contemplation in a fake idyllic setting becomes a ritual that creates a space separated from the city.
(SG )
In a hyper-productive microstate of 5 million people where there is one food vendor for every 570 people, the hawker centre was the Singaporean government’s answer to a potential rip in the social fabric by the aggressively efficient removal of street food vendors in the 1960s.
RETAIL SPACES (UK, SG)Fabrizo Matillana + Johnny Gao
(UK)
The formally permanent with the transient market stalls build up into a social impromptu space, institutionalised by routine and defining an indeterminate indoor as a meeting point, which, by virtue of its own success, settles into a venue that contradicts its unpredictability into an expected retail space.
(SG)
The escalator acts as networked urbanism’s tool in its manifestation within modern retail building types where under the transmission of this urban object, users are treated as components rather than human beings, transforming a nation’s perceived notion of value-free assumptions.
LEISURE SPACES (UK, SG)Fabrizo Matillana + Johnny Gao
(UK)
A square as a leisure space is framed by an increasing congestive flow that transcends the capacity of restrain, yet stoic users override the incongruence by sheer will of occupation.
(SG)
Singapore’s “garden city action committee” enforces the nation’s long term commitment to one hectare of green space for every 1000 people, part of a prescriptive national framework made more remarkable by Singapore’s status as the 3rd most dense country in the world.
OCCUPATIONAL SPACES (UK, SG)Fabrizo Matillana + Johnny Gao
(UK)
Minimal changes in table orientation, table and chair layout and spacing in between enacts a work space located in between a canteen and gallery within the British Library on a Sunday.
(SG)
The success of adaptive re-use of a small office/home office (SOHO) programmatic building type in what initially set out to be an escape from the city to be a unique abandoned village, has resulted in a landscape of sameness.
LIVING SPACES (UK, SG)Fabrizo Matillana + Johnny Gao
(UK)
Overlapping the seriality and material choice from the past with the modernist brutality in linearity and material weight; London’s living environment oscillates from these regimes of genericness.
(SG)
The Singaporean balcony – an upward extrapolation of leisure spaces proliferated within the generic modern private residential type.
These photographs are taken by Architects, Fabrizo Matillana and Johnny Gao as part of the Uniquely Singapore - Distinctively London? exhibition.
Using photography as a medium of observation, communication and representation, this project has been a series of ongoing conversations on generic spaces between architects in London and Singapore over the past year. Six key activity spaces (Transit, Eating, Leisure, Retail, Living and Occupational) that define our contemporary life have been identified as the basis for discussion.
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