Rethinking tropical architecture: Yann Follain
Words, voices and images: Connecting to cultures around the world
“Everything is linked, connecting communities, a sustainable approach, conservation, everything is linked”.
Duration
19.02
Director
Cinematography
Andrea Hylands
Most of the general building sequences by Andrea Hylands are shot in Singapore but brief clips are included from recent trips to both Shanghai and Seoul. Architectural drawings and detailed images courtesy WY-TO. Our thanks to the Raffles Hotel and the Stamford / Swiss Hotels, Bras Basah Road.
This story is suitable for architecture and design students, particularly with an interest in the architecture of a tropical world. The discussion covers light, space, air, urban greenery, nature, reconnecting people and lifecycle issues.
We contemplate the ways in which architecture should contribute to the development of modern communities across the tropical world and particularly in South East Asia.
Away from France, Yann has lived in both Indonesia and Singapore, now for several years, and this experience has given Yann the opportunity to contemplate the ways in which architecture should contribute to the development of modern communities across the tropical world and particularly in South East Asia.
In Singapore, Yann Follain and Peter Hylands discuss some of these ideas.
We share a similar concern about the types of buildings being constructed, particularly over the last 100 years or so and particularly in an increasingly carbon constrained world. What the Victorians often got right, we have somehow forgotten.
What Yann tells me makes me also think about the opportunities that a new approach to architecture and construction can offer to Indigenous people (for example in Australia) where all too often Indigenous people end up with inappropriate, if well intentioned, buildings and these shortcomings can apply to both domestic housing and public buildings. Poorly designed buildings can also be hugely expensive to construct, maintain and run. Such buildings may also be extremely ugly and unsuitable for their beautiful environments. Buildings with poor design thinking can also infringe important cultural protocols.
Away from France, Yann has lived in both Indonesia and Singapore, now for several years, and this experience has given Yann the opportunity to contemplate the ways in which architecture should contribute to the development of modern communities across the tropical world and particularly in South East Asia.
In Singapore, Yann Follain and Peter Hylands discuss some of these ideas.
We share a similar concern about the types of buildings being constructed, particularly over the last 100 years or so and particularly in an increasingly carbon constrained world. What the Victorians often got right, we have somehow forgotten.
What Yann tells me makes me also think about the opportunities that a new approach to architecture and construction can offer to Indigenous people (for example in Australia) where all too often Indigenous people end up with inappropriate, if well intentioned, buildings and these shortcomings can apply to both domestic housing and public buildings. Poorly designed buildings can also be hugely expensive to construct, maintain and run. Such buildings may also be extremely ugly and unsuitable for their beautiful environments. Buildings with poor design thinking can also infringe important cultural protocols.
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Most of the general building sequences by Andrea Hylands are shot in Singapore but brief clips are included from recent trips to both Shanghai and Seoul. Architectural drawings and detailed images courtesy WY-TO. Our thanks to the Raffles Hotel and the Stamford / Swiss Hotels, Bras Basah Road.
This story is suitable for architecture and design students, particularly with an interest in the architecture of a tropical world. The discussion covers light, space, air, urban greenery, nature, reconnecting people and lifecycle issues.