Venue: Guo Guang Primary School bus stop

In primary school, one of the main issues is always how to tackle the dispersion of students so that it does not create jam or chaos. Therefore, the arrangement of the waiting point becomes the key so that the hectic situations will be reduced and students are more comfortable waiting after school dismissed.

So, in this first photo, what you will notice is the comparison between the existing waiting area and the new waiting area at the rear. The old waiting area, constructed using corrugated metal roofing, is a sunken area with low roof. Whereas the newly built waiting area is a daring construction of having a stretch of supporting columns at the centre, polycarbonate (slightly curved) roof, with double volume at one’s side, and another side, lower (still higher compare to the old one). You can see the difference evidently in the subsequent photos.

Here comes all the differences.

By having a higher roof, what we experience directly from the space is the difference in the temperature. The heat can be easily felt in the old bus stop. Stuffy, I would say. However, in the new bus stop, it is quite windy. The new bus stop encourages ventilation i.e. flow of air. Old bus stop, poorly designed in that aspect.

Of course, the issue will rise saying that when there’s rain, students might get wet in the double volume part of the new bus stop. But, they can always have the alternative to walk over to the rear where the roof is lower or even back to the old bus stop, isn’t it?

Echo would be another interesting difference at the space. Xinyi did stupidly shouted “aaa~~~~” at both low and high roof of the new bus stop and the reflected volume is undoubtedly different. At higher roof area, the speaker’s volume tends to be louder to be hearable. Oppositely, at the lower roof form, maybe whispering can be clearly heard from a distance. The echo is more at the lower roof form.




As mentioned earlier about the daring placement of the column structure, will the walking patterns change? Students walk in wavy line instead of straight line?

Maybe we should imagine when the crowds are there, how would they feel, how would we feel by then.

Relate the discovery back to the Wong Ah Fook Spine, we often complains that the journey from one point to another is not comfy. So how can we promote more walking culture there? Maybe this is what we can do? Add shelters to the journey?

A humanize designed journey. Then we can add a lot of the story line to the journey. The connectivity can be established.

For more photos: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=99755&id=583564670&ref=mf

Experience it and you will have your own discovery. ^.^











p.s. Thanks Ar Hong for the car ride and lunch =)