SUBMITTED BY:

ADITI CHANDEL
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AR. MOSHE SAFDIE

 INTRODUCTION
Moshe Safdie is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author. Embracing a comprehensive and humane design philosophy, Safdie is committed to
architecture that supports and enhances a project's program; that is informed by the geographic, social, and cultural elements that define a place; and that
responds to human needs and aspirations.

Moshe Safdie came a long way to win the prestigious AIA Gold Medal in 2015. When growing up in Israel, Safdie thought he would study agriculture and
become a farmer.
Born: July 14, 1938, Haifa, Israel; family moved to Canada when he was 15.
Honors and Awards:
1995: Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Gold Medal
2015: AIA Gold Medal

Six Design Principles that Direct Safdie's Approach:

1. Architecture and Planning Should Shape the Public Realm: "create
Meaningful, vital, and inclusive social spaces"
2. Architecture has a Purpose: design buildings that "address human
Needs and aspirations"
3. Respond to the Essence of Place: design "specific to place and culture"
4. Architecture should be Inherently Buildable: design is informed by "the specific qualities of materials and the processes of construction"
5. Build Responsibly: "We have to use resources efficiently while we advance our clients' goals."
6. Humanize the Megascale: "mitigate the dehumanizing effect of mega-scale, and enhance the quality of life in our cities and neighborhoods
Moshe Safdie: “To design without the intention of building is not architecture”
Dimensions of learning
in the early parts of his career, he was obsessed with geometry and with the notion of creating three-dimensional spatial components, as building blocks for
construction.
Habitat (seminal Habitat 67 housing complex in Montrea, designed in 1967) is an example where boxes form houses, but then he tried to carry that
thought process to other typologies. At some point, he realized that different typologies require different systems, all of which could lead to a wider variety
of expressions. So this was his big lesson. A lesson of the language of my building.”

"I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my
buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different."

Heritage in the unbuilt

“As an architect committed to building and impacting the environment, to design without the intention of building is a failure by definition because it’s not
architecture. For those who design in order to build, not succeeding in building is not a failure. There are different reasons why things don’t get built, but they
form a fascinating track through one’s thoughts and career. Probably more than 50% of his work is unbuilt. The Habitat 67 that got built is one-fifth of the
original complex. Had the original been built, perhaps the course of architecture in this century would have been different.”

HABITAT 67

CONCEPT AND DESIGN

The development was designed to integrate the benefits of suburban homes, namely
Gardens, fresh air, privacy, and multileveled environments, with the economics and
Density of a modern urban apartment building. It was believed to illustrate the new
Lifestyle people would live in increasingly crowded cities around the world.

Habitat 67 comprises 354 identical, prefabricated concrete forms arranged in various

Combinations, reaching up to 12 stores in height. Together these units create 146
Residences of varying sizes and configurations, each formed from between one to eight
Linked concrete units. The complex originally contained 158 apartments, but several
Apartments have since been joined to create larger units, reducing the total number. Each unit is connected to at least one private terrace, which can range
from approximately 225 to 1,000 square feet (20.9 to 93 m2) in size.
354 prefabricated individual containers are stacked in a confused order and connected by steel cable .

ORIGINAL PLANS OF HABITAT 67

SHOWING CONNECTIVITY OF APARTMENTS WITH CORIDORE
 MARINA BAY SANDS

The site is located in the downtown of Singapore at marina bay. Marina bay is an integrated resort developed by Las Vegas sands.

With the casino complete, the resort features a 2,561 room hotel 1,300,000sq ft. convention exhibition centre,8 lakh sqft the shops at marina bay sands mall,
a museum ,2 large theatres ,7 celebrity chef restaurant,2 floating crystal pavilion etc.

The main feature is the infinite swimming pool located at the roof above the three towers of hotel. It is the world’s largest public cantilevered platform. A
series of layered gardens extends the tropical garden landscape from Gardens by the Bay towards the bayfront.

Concept
In the words of the architect: “… Marina Bay Sands is really more than a construction project, is a microcosm of a city rooted in the culture of Singapore, its
climate and contemporary life. Our challenge was to create a public place vital urban district scale, i.e. facing a mega-scale project and invent a cityscape that
works on a human scale… ”
BUILDING DESIGN

Due to the extreme tilt of the legs of the towers, walls opposed cutting and derive tend to
flex laterally during construction. It was therefore crucial to carefully consider when
designing the construction sequence, a simple structural analysis in place was not enough.
To this end, Arup conducted a series of analyses of the construction stages of the different
scenarios of erection at the beginning of the design process in order to quantify the amount
of displacement and locking the stress that builds up inside each tower in each scenario.
Additional studies showed that by introducing prestressing on the walls of vertical and
inclined cut, movements and resulting tensions could be reduced further.
Measurements of the walls include:
• Angular rotation on top of the tower
• Maximum lifting movement in all three axes
• Differential movement between the vertical walls and sloping
• Differential movement between adjacent bays walls
• Differential movement between the three towers

• 1. Hotel:
• 2. Sands SkyPark
• 3. Casino:
• 4. Shop
• 5. Sands Expo and Convention Center:
• 6. ArtScience Museum:
• 7. Theatres:
• 8. Crystal Pavilions
 KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

The opportunity to design a major new performing arts center was precipitated by two significant decisions: the selection of an extraordinary site crowning
the escarpment overlooking the historic warehouse district and the new entertainment
District, affording a 180° view of the horizon; and the decision to construct two dedicated halls for symphony, ballet, opera, and theatre

The drop in the land towards the south allowed them to include a new road that serves as the drop-off point and leads to a large underground parking garage
on top of which sits a park. From the garage and the drop-off levels, the public ascends the grand stair to the great hall, with public gathering areas and the
individual theatres on each side. Recognizing the significance of downtown as an additional access point, the North Entrance was aligned on the axis of
Central Street, penetrating through the building into the theatre lobbies

The enveloping structure of the complex is a

-series of undulating
-vertical segments of a circle forming the northern container of the theatre’s stage, concert hall, and experimental theatre.
- As these elements ascend, they create a segmented, gently curving crown to the building.
-From this crest, the roof descends in a curve following the toroidal geometry of light cables, metal, and glass toward the south.
-The roof intersects with an outwardly inclined and curved glass wall (which contains the foyer with a southern view).
-The tensile forces of the suspended glass foyer roof are counteracted by a series of cables tying down the structure to anchors at the entrance terrace

Structure of glass wall at the entrance