SCDA Architects

SCDA Architects (Soon Chan Design Architects)
-the Architecture of Soo Chan
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Design philosophy
-tranquility
-calmness
-qualified by light, space & structure orders

intersects Eastern and Western influences
-born in Penang, M'sia
-studied & trained: USA
-work: S'pore
draw on Eastern & Western traditions

concept of Globalization
-a natural part of social & cultural landscape
-using globally perfected building technologies & aesthetics
-composition array & material realisation that derives from the local geographic, geological and climatological realities.

a modern tropical Architecture 
1. he cut corners - he refuses to let the rooms remain stable spaces

2.he creates mirrored versions of the same house next to each other & builds whole neighbourhoods by fitting courtyard compounds, open spaces and roads ard each other in meandering pattern

3.buildings look like Modernist structure tat tend to dissolution into while panels, glass & exposed concrete

4.details pull to the context of South-East Asian region: slopping roofs appear,wood shutters, the rooms are open to each other to encourage the breezes to cut through the humid warmth


5.the free plan in design are grounded in classical ideals of scale and proportions

6.the spaces within the free plans overlap and are further defined through the careful placement and clear expression of walls and ceiling planes that intersect with or 'slide by' each other

7.compositionally these walls propagate from multiple 'centres' withing the flowing spaces

8.these 'centres' implied withing the open concept planning are reinforced when the spaces are experienced sequentially and hierarchically through choreography processions that recentre and realign the perceptual 'axis' that terminates in objects,landscaped vistas or open spaces.