Space for the essential
Arjun Kumar
Year 4 · Architecture · Singapore I design quiet buildings for crowded places: void decks, rooftops, and the gaps between blocks.
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The Shared Ground
Void decks are some of the most-used public spaces in Singapore, but they were designed for weddings and funerals, not daily care for children and older residents.
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Experience
Architectural Intern
Atelier Lumen (small architecture practice)
- Produced drawings for a community centre addition, from schematic to tender.
- Built three presentation models.
- Joined site meetings and learned to read a construction programme.
Teaching Assistant
First-year design studio
- Help run model-making workshops for 40 first-years.
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Section model
1:50, basswood and card.
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About
I grew up on the ninth floor of a block where the void deck was everyone's living room. Most of my projects are about that space: what it does well, and what it could do better.
I care about quiet architecture, simple structures, shade and air, and leaving room for people to change things. I draw by hand first and model a lot.
Away from studio I run along the park connector, and I'm slowly photographing every void deck in my estate.
Education & community
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, Year 4, Singapore.
Modules: Design Studio IV, Tropical Building Design, Structures, Urban Housing, History of Southeast Asian Architecture.
Year representative for the architecture student society. Year-end exhibition, 2025.
Skills
- Design
- Hand drawing
- Physical models
- Rhino
- Climate-responsive design
- Representation
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- Enscape
- Section drawings
- Research
- Site observation
- Mapping
- Interviews
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