The Guardian of Informal Gardens.
Ruth is fascinated with the growth of plant matter outside the planning parameters of formal planning agencies. She sees another type of agency, those of the ficus growing in a crack of a wall, or the carefully arranged potted gardens outside a dwelling and ephermal papaya gardens near construction sites. How then does an architect (with a lower case “a”) act lightly to enable this form of “magical” growth to occur? Understanding the collective “energies” of amateur gardeners, birds, insects, etc, Ruth constructs as lightly as she can, a series of assemblages around a block of residential apartments, that coax and chorale these “energies” to configurations of planters and supports for seeds to take hold and flourish, or blue pea creepers to travel up a facade and possibly, finally allow the spindly aerial roots of a ficus to grow into a mighty woody colonanade.
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Chong En Ning Ruth , Thesis, AY2022/23, M Arch, Department of Architecture, College of Design & Engineering, National University of Singapore
The Guardian of Informal Gardens.
Ruth is fascinated with the growth of plant matter outside the planning parameters of formal planning agencies. She sees another type of agency, those of the ficus growing in a crack of a wall, or the carefully arranged potted gardens outside a dwelling and ephermal papaya gardens near construction sites. How then does an architect (with a lower case “a”) act lightly to enable this form of “magical” growth to occur? Understanding the collective “energies” of amateur gardeners, birds, insects, etc, Ruth constructs as lightly as she can, a series of assemblages around a block of residential apartments, that coax and chorale these “energies” to configurations of planters and supports for seeds to take hold and flourish, or blue pea creepers to travel up a facade and possibly, finally allow the spindly aerial roots of a ficus to grow into a mighty woody colonanade.
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Chong En Ning Ruth , Thesis, AY2022/23, M Arch, Department of Architecture, College of Design & Engineering, National University of Singapore
The Guardian of Informal Gardens.
Ruth is fascinated with the growth of plant matter outside the planning parameters of formal planning agencies. She sees another type of agency, those of the ficus growing in a crack of a wall, or the carefully arranged potted gardens outside a dwelling and ephermal papaya gardens near construction sites. How then does an architect (with a lower case “a”) act lightly to enable this form of “magical” growth to occur? Understanding the collective “energies” of amateur gardeners, birds, insects, etc, Ruth constructs as lightly as she can, a series of assemblages around a block of residential apartments, that coax and chorale these “energies” to configurations of planters and supports for seeds to take hold and flourish, or blue pea creepers to travel up a facade and possibly, finally allow the spindly aerial roots of a ficus to grow into a mighty woody colonanade.
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Chong En Ning Ruth , Thesis, AY2022/23, M Arch, Department of Architecture, College of Design & Engineering, National University of Singapore
The Guardian of Informal Gardens.
Ruth is fascinated with the growth of plant matter outside the planning parameters of formal planning agencies. She sees another type of agency, those of the ficus growing in a crack of a wall, or the carefully arranged potted gardens outside a dwelling and ephermal papaya gardens near construction sites. How then does an architect (with a lower case “a”) act lightly to enable this form of “magical” growth to occur? Understanding the collective “energies” of amateur gardeners, birds, insects, etc, Ruth constructs as lightly as she can, a series of assemblages around a block of residential apartments, that coax and chorale these “energies” to configurations of planters and supports for seeds to take hold and flourish, or blue pea creepers to travel up a facade and possibly, finally allow the spindly aerial roots of a ficus to grow into a mighty woody colonanade.
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Chong En Ning Ruth , Thesis, AY2022/23, M Arch, Department of Architecture, College of Design & Engineering, National University of Singapore
The Guardian of Informal Gardens.
Ruth is fascinated with the growth of plant matter outside the planning parameters of formal planning agencies. She sees another type of agency, those of the ficus growing in a crack of a wall, or the carefully arranged potted gardens outside a dwelling and ephermal papaya gardens near construction sites. How then does an architect (with a lower case “a”) act lightly to enable this form of “magical” growth to occur? Understanding the collective “energies” of amateur gardeners, birds, insects, etc, Ruth constructs as lightly as she can, a series of assemblages around a block of residential apartments, that coax and chorale these “energies” to configurations of planters and supports for seeds to take hold and flourish, or blue pea creepers to travel up a facade and possibly, finally allow the spindly aerial roots of a ficus to grow into a mighty woody colonanade.
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Chong En Ning Ruth , Thesis, AY2022/23, M Arch, Department of Architecture, College of Design & Engineering, National University of Singapore
The Guardian of Informal Gardens.
Ruth is fascinated with the growth of plant matter outside the planning parameters of formal planning agencies. She sees another type of agency, those of the ficus growing in a crack of a wall, or the carefully arranged potted gardens outside a dwelling and ephermal papaya gardens near construction sites. How then does an architect (with a lower case “a”) act lightly to enable this form of “magical” growth to occur? Understanding the collective “energies” of amateur gardeners, birds, insects, etc, Ruth constructs as lightly as she can, a series of assemblages around a block of residential apartments, that coax and chorale these “energies” to configurations of planters and supports for seeds to take hold and flourish, or blue pea creepers to travel up a facade and possibly, finally allow the spindly aerial roots of a ficus to grow into a mighty woody colonanade.
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Chong En Ning Ruth , Thesis, AY2022/23, M Arch, Department of Architecture, College of Design & Engineering, National University of Singapore
The Guardian of Informal Gardens.
Ruth is fascinated with the growth of plant matter outside the planning parameters of formal planning agencies. She sees another type of agency, those of the ficus growing in a crack of a wall, or the carefully arranged potted gardens outside a dwelling and ephermal papaya gardens near construction sites. How then does an architect (with a lower case “a”) act lightly to enable this form of “magical” growth to occur? Understanding the collective “energies” of amateur gardeners, birds, insects, etc, Ruth constructs as lightly as she can, a series of assemblages around a block of residential apartments, that coax and chorale these “energies” to configurations of planters and supports for seeds to take hold and flourish, or blue pea creepers to travel up a facade and possibly, finally allow the spindly aerial roots of a ficus to grow into a mighty woody colonanade.
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Chong En Ning Ruth , Thesis, AY2022/23, M Arch, Department of Architecture, College of Design & Engineering, National University of Singapore
The Guardian of Informal Gardens.
Ruth is fascinated with the growth of plant matter outside the planning parameters of formal planning agencies. She sees another type of agency, those of the ficus growing in a crack of a wall, or the carefully arranged potted gardens outside a dwelling and ephermal papaya gardens near construction sites. How then does an architect (with a lower case “a”) act lightly to enable this form of “magical” growth to occur? Understanding the collective “energies” of amateur gardeners, birds, insects, etc, Ruth constructs as lightly as she can, a series of assemblages around a block of residential apartments, that coax and chorale these “energies” to configurations of planters and supports for seeds to take hold and flourish, or blue pea creepers to travel up a facade and possibly, finally allow the spindly aerial roots of a ficus to grow into a mighty woody colonanade.
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Chong En Ning Ruth , Thesis, AY2022/23, M Arch, Department of Architecture, College of Design & Engineering, National University of Singapore
The Guardian of Informal Gardens.
Ruth is fascinated with the growth of plant matter outside the planning parameters of formal planning agencies. She sees another type of agency, those of the ficus growing in a crack of a wall, or the carefully arranged potted gardens outside a dwelling and ephermal papaya gardens near construction sites. How then does an architect (with a lower case “a”) act lightly to enable this form of “magical” growth to occur? Understanding the collective “energies” of amateur gardeners, birds, insects, etc, Ruth constructs as lightly as she can, a series of assemblages around a block of residential apartments, that coax and chorale these “energies” to configurations of planters and supports for seeds to take hold and flourish, or blue pea creepers to travel up a facade and possibly, finally allow the spindly aerial roots of a ficus to grow into a mighty woody colonanade.
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Chong En Ning Ruth , Thesis, AY2022/23, M Arch, Department of Architecture, College of Design & Engineering, National University of Singapore
The Guardian of Informal Gardens.
Ruth is fascinated with the growth of plant matter outside the planning parameters of formal planning agencies. She sees another type of agency, those of the ficus growing in a crack of a wall, or the carefully arranged potted gardens outside a dwelling and ephermal papaya gardens near construction sites. How then does an architect (with a lower case “a”) act lightly to enable this form of “magical” growth to occur? Understanding the collective “energies” of amateur gardeners, birds, insects, etc, Ruth constructs as lightly as she can, a series of assemblages around a block of residential apartments, that coax and chorale these “energies” to configurations of planters and supports for seeds to take hold and flourish, or blue pea creepers to travel up a facade and possibly, finally allow the spindly aerial roots of a ficus to grow into a mighty woody colonanade.
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Chong En Ning Ruth , Thesis, AY2022/23, M Arch, Department of Architecture, College of Design & Engineering, National University of Singapore
The Guardian of Informal Gardens.
Ruth is fascinated with the growth of plant matter outside the planning parameters of formal planning agencies. She sees another type of agency, those of the ficus growing in a crack of a wall, or the carefully arranged potted gardens outside a dwelling and ephermal papaya gardens near construction sites. How then does an architect (with a lower case “a”) act lightly to enable this form of “magical” growth to occur? Understanding the collective “energies" of amateur gardeners, birds, insects, etc, Ruth constructs as lightly as she can, a series of assemblages around a block of residential apartments, that coax and chorale these “energies” to configurations of planters and supports for seeds to take hold and flourish, or blue pea creepers to travel up a facade and possibly, finally allow the spindly aerial roots of a ficus to grow into a mighty woody colonanade.
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Chong En Ning Ruth , Thesis, AY2022/23, M Arch, Department of Architecture, College of Design & Engineering, National University of Singapore
The Guardian of Informal Gardens.
Ruth is fascinated with the growth of plant matter outside the planning parameters of formal planning agencies. She sees another type of agency, those of the ficus growing in a crack of a wall, or the carefully arranged potted gardens outside a dwelling and ephermal papaya gardens near construction sites. How then does an architect (with a lower case “a”) act lightly to enable this form of “magical” growth to occur? Understanding the collective “energies" of amateur gardeners, birds, insects, etc, Ruth constructs as lightly as she can, a series of assemblages around a block of residential apartments, that coax and chorale these “energies” to configurations of planters and supports for seeds to take hold and flourish, or blue pea creepers to travel up a facade and possibly, finally allow the spindly aerial roots of a ficus to grow into a mighty woody colonanade.
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Chong En Ning Ruth , Thesis, AY2022/23, M Arch, Department of Architecture, College of Design & Engineering, National University of Singapore
