CDE +

Design Concept

The NUS College of Design and Engineering (CDE+) building renovates and extends the first building on the NUS Kent Ridge campus known as SDE 2. The design serves as the College’s new chapter on the road to carbon neutrality and an advanced prototype for future A&A zero carbon projects. The building is a platform to that translates and integrates design and engineering CDE research outcomes through architecture. Through developing a unified model of teaching and research, the new building will become integrative research and making laboratory for advanced design and engineering thinking.

The building employs multidomain spaces for integrative research and cross-disciplinary learning. The existing SDE 2 block is planned to undergo adaptive reuse and retrofitting to minimize the new carbon expenditure, rejecting the traditional ‘teardown and rebuild’ model. Mass Engineered Timber (MET) construction is utilized for a new elliptical pavilion and overhanding PV roof assembly. An ample social plaza. naturally ventilated social spaces and the two stand-alone buildings are shaded by the large MET roof. The long roof spans are achieved through a reciprocal structure system that makes for efficient transport and assembly.

VISUALIZATION

STRUCTURAL AND MATERIAL DESIGN