D6 - EMERGENT SYSTEMS

Emergent Systems explores the idea that architecture is more than the sum of its individual parts. Drawing on the concept of emergence, it introduces NUS Department of Architecture Year 3 students to how complex spatial, structural, and organisational behaviours can arise from a simple set of underlying rules and relationships. By understanding these interactions, students develop architectural “generating systems” that organise interconnected components across multiple scales, enabling the creation of coherent, adaptable, and rigorous design outcomes.

Collaborating with Sport SG, the main platform for investigation this year are the more peripheral and interstitial spaces, networks, communities that serve to support already existing sporting facilities, otherwise known as SPORTS+. Sporting facilities are not the only avenues that contribute to a more active lifestyle, and students are therefore challenged to imagine how the peripheral spaces can also generate value, to support and upgrade the existing systems with new flows.

Through an intensive semester of research, exploration and design, students will hopefully open new definitions for what it means to design for sports.

Exhibition Venues:

– SDE3 Design Studio Level 3: 1 – 14 July

– Kallang Wave Mall (The Lawn): 15 – 21 July

– Archifest Sands Expo Hall A & B: 22 – 24 July