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Title:
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Urban Legacy: Preserving Cultural Continuity in Land Scarce Singapore
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Creator:
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Zhang Ye, Denzyl
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Subject:
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Thesis (M.Arch.) – Architecture
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Subject:
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Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Architecture
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Rights:
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Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Abstract:
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“This thesis looks at how memorial spaces might be integrated into urban parks, with an emphasis on the Sanctuary of Passage, a prototype for ecological and culturally sensitive memorial architecture in Singapore’s Ang Mo Kio-Bishan Park. The design tackles the issues of urban congestion and the displacement of customary burial grounds caused by the urgent requirement for living space in increasingly urbanizing regions. The thesis suggests a paradigm in which memorial spaces coexist alongside recreational places while also improving the ecological and social fabric of urban surroundings. The Sanctuary of Passage is based on the idea of a journey through sorrow, expressed by a series of ascending spaces that represent the phases of bereavement. Each level of the construction provides a unique experience with nature and architecture, allowing for a gradual shift from grieving to recollection and healing. The proposal draws on the natural dichotomies of visibility and obscurity, enclosure and exposure, and nature and architecture to create a dynamic place that respects and reacts to Singapore’s unique cultural traditions around death. The thesis concludes with a design that reimagines the function of memorial spaces in urban environments, arguing that they may be effortlessly incorporated into the city’s landscape, acting as crucial public places that provide consolation and connectedness. By doing so, it establishes a precedent for future developments across the globe, implying that combining urban growth with memorialization techniques may produce places that commemorate the past while also benefitting the present and future.” –Abstract
Keywords: urban memorial spaces, sustainable architecture, cultural sensitivity, grief stages, urban parks, Singapore, ecological integration, public space utilization.
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Publisher:
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Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
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Date:
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2024-05
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Format:
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1 online resource: 1 PDF (Thesis, 118 pages, color illustrations, maps, plans, graphs)
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