Piscine SPLASH! Asia releases details of fringe conference
Piscine SPLASH! Asia has announced the details of its fringe conference being partnered with Landscape Forum.
Tuesday 21 May 2013
1:00pm -1:45pm
Outdoor Decking – How it is done in Singapore
Edmund Goh, General Manager (Material Procurement), Evorich Holdings Pte Ltd
Edmund will discuss with participants the following topics:
• Types of decking materials used in Singapore
• Concerns and challenges faced by the different types of decking materials
• Solutions to these concerns and challenges
• Types of coating available for wood decking in tropical Singapore
With decades of hands-on experience in the engineering industry as well as the local timber and parquet industry, Edmund knows substantially about wood application and outdoor decking in the local building industry. Edmund currently owns the sole distributorship of Accoya in Singapore, the first natural wood with the most number of Eco accreditations in the world today.
1.45pm-2.30pm
What is a good Feng Shui in a landscape design?
Master Chuan
Landscape designs do not just involve the aesthetics and the natural environment – how they blend to give the landscaping its uniqueness and its fresh appeal but it may also involves the incorporation of feng shui principles to further enhance the ambience of the landscape so designed. Master Chuan will discuss with participants the five elements that influence the feng shui of any landscape, the selection of furniture, the use of water features and how to appropriate the design of the house to the landscape so everyone living in the house will benefit from the good feng shui arising from the landscape.
Master Chuan is a contemporary Feng Shui Master who believes that the ancient arts of Feng Shui, Palmistry and the Four Pillar Analysis are practical solutions to solve our everyday challenges. Having read the palms of some 10,000 people from all walks of life in the last 20 years, and combined with Feng Shui and Four Pillar Analysis (BaZi), Master Chuan offers comprehensive readings and analysis for individuals, organisations and corporations. Practical in his approach, Master Chuan draws on the proven wisdom of these ancient arts and relates them to today’s challenges. With his strong psychology background and through simple real life illustrations and analogies, he connects easily with clients and promptly points them to the right solution.
Master Chuan has also written many articles in various publications and conducted numerous workshops on Palmistry and Feng Shui in Singapore and other countries including Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Germany. Master Chuan is a Psychology graduate from the National University of Singapore (1997) and has a Masters degree from De Montfort University, Leicester, UK (2001).
2.30pm-3.15pm
Concept and process of innovative glass and façade design
Kelvin Kan
Besides providing a “barrier” that functionally separates the elements, glass also has the unusual quality that “add value” to the product, especially in high end condominiums or offices. The applications, ranging from curtain walls, frameless structural glass systems to monocoque glass walls, are usually in a series of repetitive elements; but need to be innovatively resolved and meet all the basic requirements for the chosen systems. Ranging from modular to customized solutions, the objectives remain the same for most applications but the outcome will vary depending on the concept and the process involved. To ensure construct-ability and add value to the system, a rigorous process and interactions by different stakeholders are essential. The presentation aims to cover the fundamental process and a range of innovative facade-solutions and built examples.
Kelvin Kan practiced as an architect in Singapore in 1993 and moved into the glass industry before becoming a façade specialist. With the unusual hybrid of expertise, Kelvin founded AgFacadesign (AgFd) in 2009 to provide his clientele an integrated design approach. He believes design must not only add value but must be efficient, functional and aesthetically pleasing by combining ‘standard’ systems and components creatively to provide innovative solutions. This is expressed in AgFd’s very first completed project 158 Cecil Street which won First Prize in the 2011 SIA/NParks Skyrise Greenery Awards with a uniquely integrated design which seamlessly blurred the ‘boundaries’ between architecture, glass/green technologies, façade design around a ‘hanging garden’.
Piscine SPLASH! Asia is being held at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre on the 20 -21 May 2013. Doors open from 10am -6pm Monday 20 May and 8am -5pm Tuesday 21 May 2013.
For more information call: Singapore 800 616 3169; Australia 1300 789 845, New Zealand 0800 451 590 or email to info@piscinesplashasia.com.
