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Fabricating The Ineffable BA (Hons) Spatial Design
Selwyn Kusuma

Video + Board

1 x A0 board
Animation

Student Bio Project Description

Selwyn Kusuma (b. 2000) is a young aspiring architect who The scheme intertwines and is inspired through the idea of

has participated in many competitions that has accumulated “Ineffable”, embodied within the history of Fort Canning. The

several awards throughout his studies. ineffable investigates the understanding and exploration of

precedence of Fort Canning’s history, deriving to how the

In 2019, he was awarded SILA Student Design Awards for design will be able to evoke memories and emotions while

Outstanding Graphics in Gold, as well as, SILA Student simultaneously inspiring responses from the visitors. The

Design Awards for Outstanding Contextual Analysis & collective memories are a comment within the present,

Investigation in Bronze. He was awarded, Best of Best evoking the memories of the past, while also giving hope to

Certificate of Awards (Diploma), for the B.O.B exhibition at the future.

Lim Hak Tai Gallery, NAFA.

The idea can only be extracted by repressing these

He has a strong passion in architecture and believes that memories through the architecture of sensibility: which

architecture is more than just function and structure, but the surpasses the dominance of the eye but engages all the five

unique and creative process of designing. senses; touch, smell, sound, taste and sight as a vessel for

experience. Therefore, a reactive reaction will be formed by

the movements, actions, and perception of the bodies as

they enter the space.

The project harmonises the human body, nature, in response

to the ineffable memories. The significance of materiality,

views / non views, solid / void and the dynamism of light

choreography is to construct the embodied memories of Fort

Canning within the architecture. The ineffable thus combines

the movement of the human body, nature of site, specifics of

history to create a choreography that retraces Singapore’s

Journey, intended to inspire all generations and the public,

Fig 31. that has the privilege to achieve the freedom of thought,
creativity, and openness in multiculturism, which should not

be taken for granted.

Fig 32.

B.o.B. 2020 S.O.A.D. 3D Design