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Rising Masses, Singapore
Author(s) -
Kahlen Max
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1276
Subject(s) - architecture , context (archaeology) , architectural engineering , order (exchange) , sociology , engineering , management , history , business , archaeology , economics , finance
Rising Masses, a year‐long final design thesis undertaken at the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture, is for a high‐rise building in the centre of Singapore's financial district. It is characterised by an extreme thinness that is intended to heighten the experience of working in such a dense urban context. As Max Kahlen of Dyvik & Kahlen, Architecture, explains, two mathematical‐based methods were employed in order to aid the design of such a thin structure. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.