Pomeroy Studio Design for a Sustainable Future Award (DSFA)
The Pomeroy Studio ‘Design for a Sustainable Future Award’ provides an exciting and challenging opportunity for the best global design students to gain valuable design, research and technical experience in a professional interdisciplinary design practice. The award and internship’s primary mission is to promote sustainable design early in a student’s career. Green design ‘best practice’ principles, the application of green technologies to live projects, desktop and field research, and an awareness of current global government legislation on green issues, forms the basis of the knowledge transferred to students. This allows the award-winning students to completely immerse themselves into Studio activity, and develop the requisite green skills for further study. A bursary will be awarded during the 3-month internship at Pomeroy Studio, located in Singapore.
Submit your application to internship@pomeroystudio.sg
Juliette is currently completing her degree in urban engineering at the University of Technology of Compiègne in France. She chose to complete her end-of-study internship in Pomeroy Studio to experience urbanism in an international context and to work on innovative and sustainable solutions. Her university group project ‘Bobigny’s station square as a living and meeting space’ aims to make the most out of the insertion of a new metro line in Bobigny and revitalize this unsafe area, making it a more pleasant and sustainable place to live in. They proposed solutions to prioritize active mobility and public transportation, increase vegetation surfaces, and make it a square where residents and visitors like to stay.
Rutuja completed her bachelor's degree in Architecture from India and then went on to complete her postgraduate studies in the MSc. Integrated Sustainable Design Course at National University of Singapore. In her graduate project, she explored architecture as an interdisciplinary field of art that integrates the social, spatial and cultural aspects of human life, while showing respect for the environment and the people by harnessing technological innovations. Her subsequent projects during and after her post-graduate studies aim to build on this essence of holistic development that she believes is vital for sustainable development.
As an architect, Ruiee has always been intrigued with diluting the rigid boundaries between the built and unbuilt environment. She received her master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the National University of Singapore which emphasized on the high density Asian context. Her final year project attempted at reimagining mangroves as a neighborhood landscape. The phased planning aimed at developing an inherent connect between the maturing landscape and the residents’ memory, reclaiming the importance it once had in their lives. The project explored the possibility of an alternate land reclamation detail that could make for a conducive environment for the growth of Mangroves. This was envisioned to over time help soak up and draw down the carbon emissions.
Valeria Ortiz Naranjo is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Integrated Sustainable Design at National University of Singapore. She thinks that sustainability must be a pillar implemented in construction projects, in order to mitigate the environmental impact of buildings. For her master’s project at NUS, she and her team had the task to envision the Central Singapore development for 2100. They identified the upcoming challenges that included sea-level rise, fragmentation of greenery, growing population and underutilized waterfronts. They envisioned a compact, high-rise connected development that sought to expand space for biodiversity by generating strategies such as: creating synergized precincts, expanding the blue and green systems, creating and connecting diverse waterfront experiences, liberating the ground and connecting mobility at multiple levels.
At Pomeroy Studio she assisted the team on a project proposal, where she learned how sustainability strategies are advocated as an integrated design process. She also helped the sustainability team by gathering data on Green Mark certification.
Rajiv received his master’s degree from the National University of Singapore. His project, ‘Sustainable Redesign of the Ng Teng Fong Hospital Complex’ investigates a deeper integration of architecture and spatial design with energy, food, and water systems. This ‘systems thinking’ perspective, while aiding in the visualisation of connectivity and exchange, also helps to generate a zone of influence in the immediate Jurong precinct that is adaptable and resilient.
Dorina Mericskai completed her Bachelor studies in architectural engineering in Hungary and is currently pursuing her Masters in Urban Planning and Management at Aalborg University in Denmark. Her recent university project, the ‘Idea Factory Coffee House’, is an eco-friendly design striving to harness technological innovation to run on green energy and leave as little carbon footprint as possible. Another important aspect to the design was to provide a shared, flexible space for students to study, co-work and collaborate, and thereby inspire each other.
Amrita completed her postgraduate degree (MSc) in Sustainable Urbanism from the Bartlett School of Planning, University College, London. With a background in urban planning and design, she has always been intrigued on the rationale behind sustainability as achieved by Asian cities. Her university project 'Urban Design-Placemaking' in Stratford High Street in London was aiming to dissolve the existing physical barriers presented by Stratford's urban form by establishing a system that depends on urban farming that generates economic activity from local production to regional distribution.
Hala is Moroccan and spent her upbringing between Morocco and France. After completing her bachelor degree from Architecture at L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier, she completed various internship experiences in Morocco, France, and Switzerland, before deciding to pursue her Master of Architecture in Ukraine. In future, she hopes to extract the essence of each culture, reinterpret it, and using best practice to provide better solutions for humanity.
Stefano completed his Master’s Degree in Architecture – Building Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan and is now completing a post-graduate Degree in BIM Management. During his Postgraduate degree he experienced a first step of interoperability with different Open Source BIM software (Revit, Tekla, Navisworks and Solibri) applicated on Galfa tower in Milan. He believes that architecture projects are a big responsibility because we are creating the space of the community and we have the duty to made it ethical and emotional.
Serena Salvi was born and raised in Italy, completed her Bachelor in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano, and is currently pursuing her postgraduate degree in Urban Design at Aalborg University in Denmark. Her recent project ‘Turning the Tide’, sited in Aalborg, was to create a new connection in the city that has been divided by the fjord. The phased design intervention integrates the harvesting of tidal power through the use of water turbines, linking the two sides of the fjord by floating platforms and a new public space on the water.
Ning completed her Bachelor Degree in Architecture at the University of Edinburgh. She explored architecture as a threshold, in between zones that mediate people’s movement from one space to another. By reinterpreting the threshold of identity, time and interaction through spaces and materiality become more meaningful, and a perceptive architecture will be created.
Jun Kai received Bachelor’s Degree in the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) under the Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD) Pillar. In his winning project of SUTD’s satellite campus situated in the heart of the city, he attempts to weave together different conditions from the site to create an architecture that envelops the space in it visually, spatially and kinetically.
Enrico originates from Udine - Italy, studied for the Master Degree at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In his ‘Mixed use building’ winning project, he incorporated traditional berliner tradition through a combination between a rigid façade grid and a fluid transparent vault for the internal court, a social space also important for the local neighborhood of Kreuzberg.
Julia received her Master of Architecture at the University of Nottingham. In her winning project, the ‘Cultural Performance Towers’, she incorporated traditional Chinese art into a ‘podium free’ hybrid building design in an attempt to enhance not only the environmental sustainability but also social sustainability, for the local community in Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong.
Gregorio is a graduate Urban Designer from Lund University, Sweden, with a Master degree in Sustainable Urban Design. Gregorio’s winning project, ‘Life|in|out|side’ aims not only to re-design the urban plan of An-Kang community, the biggest low-income community in Taipei, but also to be an example of how we can relate to an existing situation in a city in transition that needs a drastic renovation.
Dario is a graduate from IUAV University, Venice, Italy, with a Master in Restoration and Urban Architecture. His opportunity to visit Singapore emerged when he won the VVA International Workshop, “The Venice Tower,” and was then selected as one of the winners of the 2015 Pomeroy Studio “Design for a Sustainable Future Award,” which also provided a summer internship placement.
Alex studied Architecture at The University of Nottingham, UK. His project, the ‘Clean Air Tower’ combines vertical architecture with industrial air-cleaning technologies and self-generated power, making use of the stack effect to clean 8,500,000 m3 of air per year for residents, office workers and the citizens of Tianjin. It also received the First Prize Award at the 3rd Annual CTBUH International Student Design Competition 2014.
Constantin is a graduate Urban Designer from Lund University, Sweden, with a Master’s degree in Sustainable Urban Design. His project, ‘Designing Water Communities’, challenges the phenomenon that rivers are wastewater dump holes, and rethinks the use of public spaces through strengthening the relations between water ecosystems and the urban framework in Calarasi, Romania.
Matt is a graduate from The University of Nottingham. His ‘Vertical Aquaponic Farm’ explores the potential of vertical farming directly above the busy metro station of Tanjong Pagar within the Central Business District of Singapore. A mixed use development of vegetation growing, fish rearing and residential living aim to reduce the country’s high dependence on food imports yet not compromise on the scarce space in town for social interaction.
Nguyen scooped Pomeroy Studio’s Inaugural ‘Design for a Sustainable Future’ Award from a field of over 250 architectural students from around the World. Thi An’s design for a ‘Vertical Aviary’ combines the functions of ecology, wildlife and high-rise residential living - bringing nature into people’s everyday lives, whilst also encouraging a diverse habitat.