Interstice
The project aims to extend the current green corridor from the Kent Ridge Park across the campus and into the current site of SDE 2. Mapping the current canopy and the experience of walking under the canopy, the project aims to provide this experience of being closely connected to nature within and surrouding the new building. Interstice aims to weave together the indoors and outdoors, in order to stimulate a constant relationship with the surrounding environment. Designed with curiosity in mind, students and staff will be enticed to enter and explore this building to find many inter-disciplinary spaces for design. The scheme is driven by exploring various configurations of grids to explore different spatial experiences that could further enhance one’s connection to the surrounding nature. The different configurations led to different degrees of exposure to the outside and inside that blurs the boundaries between the outdoor and indoor spaces. As such, the scheme created a series of spaces that led to various types of pockets of spaces that allow the users of the building to be in constant connection to the surrounding trees and nature. Having the courtyard placed in the central area of the building, with a stepped entrance from the walkway from the Central Library as well as a ramp system that brings the users to the different layers of the building, it gives endless opportunities for the users to be exposed to nature while still being in their respective rooms. Ultimately, this project celebrates the in between spaces of being inside and outside, indoors and outdoors to create new forms of spaces for design.