The great unlearning.This dramatic (if not brash) institute is intended both to project an image of technical progress and to respond to the tropical climate A tropical climate is a type of climate typical in the tropics. Köppen's widely-recognized scheme of climate classification defines it as a non-arid climate in which all twelve months have mean temperatures above 18°C (64.4 °F). with least use of artificially produced energy by exploiting the geometries of site and section. The Institute of Technical Education (ITE ITE Institute of Transportation Engineers ITE In the Ear ITE Information Technology Equipment ITE Initial Teacher Education (UK) ITE Institute of Technical Education ITE Institute of Terrestrial Ecology ) is a development of Akitek Tenggara' exploration of a modern architectural language for the tropics tropics, also called tropical zone or torrid zone, all the land and water of the earth situated between the Tropic of Cancer at lat. 23 1-2°N and the Tropic of Capricorn at lat. 23 1-2°S. . Two 250m long parallel blocks of accommodation are separated by a strip of landscape 18m wide. They are gently bent to a curve with an inside radius of 170m. The four-storey-high blocks are punctured at intervals coming or happening with intervals between; now and then. See also: Interval along the facade t permit prevailing breezes to pass through the structure. The curved roof has a wide overhang which gives protection from the rain and sun. The overhang is supported on a secondary steel frame which also carries aerolon Iouvres which shield the external walls. The building projects a striking image of raw technology with steel bridges across the gap between the two linear blocks. Everything is stripped to essentials: decoration is superfluous; every component has a structural reason or is an essential climatic controlling device. The building is entered on the west, into a soaring, naturally ventilated ven·ti·late tr.v. ven·ti·lat·ed, ven·ti·lat·ing, ven·ti·lates 1. To admit fresh air into (a mine, for example) to replace stale or noxious air. 2. atriu and open-to-sky auditorium. The roof is a high curved steel frame with open sides. The place is perhaps not entirely suitable for its users in a tropical thunderstorm thunderstorm, violent, local atmospheric disturbance accompanied by lightning, thunder, and heavy rain, often by strong gusts of wind, and sometimes by hail. but at other times it is the hub of the complex. An industrial glass lift ascends within the atrium and is connected by flying bridges to the intermediate floors of the teaching blocks. The architectural language is consistent throughout. The building celebrates technology poetically, The central street is reminiscent of Tay Kheng Soon's ideas for Kampong Bugis DGP DGP Director General of Police (India) DGP Dog-Gone-Pain DGP Dissimilar Gateway Protocol DGP Deutsche Gesellschaft für Parodontologie DGP Data Generating Process DGP Daily Grammar Practice (education) ; it is high and narrow with overhanging roofs that effectively give shade throughout the day. Non-reflective landscape helps to cool the building. Two elements could be better. The alignment of the gutter could be improved -- difficult though it is, for it curves in two directions. And the soft landscape is handled with less confidence than the structural elements Structural elements are used in structural analysis to simplify the structure which is to be analysed. Structural elements can be linear, surfaces or volumes. Linear elements:
This criticism aside, this is seminal building advancing Tay Kheng Soon's advocacy of a design language for the tropics which emphasises line, edge, mesh and shade, rather than an architecture of plane, volume, solid and void. Tay suggests that 'an unlearning process is involved, given the dominance of European architecture which has formed the basics of architectural training for the past 200 years'. |
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