River Morphologies

EXHIBITIONS:

River Culture in Southeast Asia

As part of an ongoing exploration, second year architecture students look into the existing traditional culture around water and rivers of Southeast Asia. Students look into the history, living patterns and habits, trades, activities, circularity, and sustainability.

The research centres around uncovering the relationship of humans with the river, how towns are shaped by the river, and how humans have adapted and learned to live with the river.

Living by the River

As first year architecture students, they were asked to open their imaginations into exploring the connection between living spaces and the natural environment.

Spaces for living is not defined rigidly, but rather as a rethinking of how humans inhabit spaces. Spaces are not thought of as a indoor/outdoor duality, but rather as a blurred existence within the tropics and the riverside. In rethinking spaces for living, the ways, patterns and culture of living by the river is understood, recontextualised, and reinterpreted, reshaping the human-river relationship.

The ten student works showcased explores the potential morphologies of living by the river through the lens of young architects.

Waste to Art

Throughout the semester, second year architecture, interior architecture, and quantity surveying students were led to explore the sustainability of our human habits around the river. Students explored their own waste habits, and went to the riverside to conduct a river waste audit. Through understanding the relationship and connection between personal waste and collective waste, students ask how could our human habits change for the better?