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City of Tomorrow: The human environment (2/2)

May 9, 2021June 21, 2021 William Ti, Jr. | Philippine Daily Inquirer
Villa Borghese Gardens, Rome
Villa Borghese Gardens, Rome

We need environments in which we can thrive. The 21st century will see homo sapiens become a predominantly urban species. Development will push almost 70 percent of the population to live in urban areas by 2050. More and more of humanity will need to find space in bigger and denser cities. The built environment that we build for ourselves will dictate how we develop and evolve as a society.

Nurture, preserve, expand

Our human environments must serve to nurture us. We must develop spaces and facilities that nurture our mind, body and spirit. We need space to grow, open fields to run in and an abundance of nature to immerse ourselves in. Our minds need to be stimulated and fed. We need access to libraries and places of learning—facilities that allow us to explore new interests and satiate our curiosity. Learning must be facilitated and become a lifelong activity.

Our health and well-being are of paramount importance. The calculus that weighs economic and social development must sway towards providing an environment that is beneficial to human life. Limited resources, primary of which is space, must not be hoarded to benefit the few but expended to serve our communities. It is almost criminal how a city with so few public parks can have such an abundance of golf courses, how each building devotes so much more space to parking for cars than for gardens and greens.

Our urban lifestyles must expand beyond a torturous cycle of working just to survive. Subsistence living traps too many urbanites into concrete cages linked by steel carriages running on barren paved roads.

Notting Hill, London
Notting Hill, London
Gorky Park Moscow
Gorky Park, Moscow

Our cities must serve to expand the human experience. It must enrich our lives by providing greater diversity and freedom. Personal mobility and freedom must be prioritized. We must develop spaces and urban amenities that can allow for a depth and diversity of cultural and recreational activities. The digital realm has allowed us to expand our reach exponentially. We must not allow our physical realm to shrink and limit us in turn.

The people

Politics divides us. Government limits us. National agendas disregard us. Yet politics can also bring us together; government can lead the way; and the country can be the home that shelters us.

 

“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”—Jane Jacobs

Essentials

Our human environments are often planned to be efficient and functional. They are designed to address function and durability. If function is the rational and structure, the framework of how we build our environment, then purpose is the essence of why we build.

We must build an environment that delights us, communities that serve to enrich us. Perhaps the most important shift in modern times is the value we have placed upon design. From Apple to Tesla, the world has shown how ideas can change the world.

 

 

Manila, 2021 – Philippine Daily Inquirer publishes WTA Architect William Ti’s City of Tomorrow Column: The Human Environment (2/2). Click here to read more.

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City of Tomorrow: The human environment (1/2)

April 24, 2021May 26, 2022 William Ti, Jr. | Philippine Daily Inquirer
Horizon East Church of the Crossroads is located at Horizon Manila
Church at Horizon Manila. Landform architecture allows the development of buildings that can also be engaged as open landscapes.

(First in a series)

Climate change continues to be the single, most important long term global concern, even as we all face the current pandemic. This week, world leaders convened a climate summit to pledge new targets and reinforce existing ones to reduce their emissions. This was in preparation for the next world summit in November.

Our roles as architects and planners to provide system-wide and comprehensive solutions to not just mitigate but also improve our built environment become increasingly important in the world we live in. How do we develop our human environment? How can we make this world we live in a more suitable and beneficial habitat for homo sapiens and our web of interrelated species?

Beyond my personal musings and internal hypothesizing, we’re currently exploring some of these ideas in the work we’re doing. They range from the immediate to the societal, from human to environmental concerns.

Learn more about living streets at Leefstraat.be/
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World map of the intensity of the urban heat island effect in 30,000 cities around the world from Eos. org
World map of the intensity of the urban heat island effect in 30,000 cities around the world from Eos. org
A sense of belonging

While we constantly strive to design for our five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch, we also need to design spaces that enhance our sense of belonging. It is a sense that we have developed over hundreds of thousands of years even before the first extant member of our species. This is the sense that has allowed us to develop our culture and civilization and spread to almost all regions of the world.

Our sense of belonging constantly makes us search for channels to connect with one another. We require communal experiences that bond us together and look for the presence of other people in our living spaces. We congregate and mingle even for no reason, and we fear or avoid empty and bare spaces. We feel anxious in empty halls and corridors, empty and dead streets.

As we strive for the development of 15-minute cities, we must be aware of how we can make pocket neighborhoods communal and conducive to personal movement and exploration. Expand points of gathering beyond nodes and centralities towards corridors of activity that spread out and activate our streetscapes. Our streets are not just channels for movement but part of a web that can be stimulated and livened by human activity.

Manila, 2021 – Philippine Daily Inquirer publishes WTA Architect William Ti’s City of Tomorrow Column: The Human Environment (1/2). Click here to read more.

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City of Tomorrow: Megacities and the story of our future

April 11, 2021April 24, 2021 William Ti, Jr. | Philippine Daily Inquirer

Sometimes it gets awfully confusing trying to figure out how to describe or define Manila. As we get well into the third decade of this millennium however, it is becoming evident that we are entering an age of megacities or urban regions. While the cities of our world have defined the story of humanity over the last century, the megacities or urban regions of today will begin to dominate the story of our future.

Manila skyline from the Twelve Luxury Flats

Megacity

We can no longer see Manila or even Metro Manila as the borders of our city. Defining or limiting policies and programs to its various component cities is futile. The second week of this current lockdown with its “NCR plus” designation shows just how far our megacity extends to. Mega Manila is one entity and one region that extends from Pampanga in the north to Batangas in the south.

In this megacity, we will find 25 million urban residents with another 7 million ex-urban residents living in rapidly urbanizing areas. This city of 32 million people would rank as the 45th most populous country in the world or 10th in Europe. Mega Manila is the second densest and second largest urban region in the world and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

Mega Manila population data

The development and governance of such an entity require planning and organizations way beyond the capacity of its individual cities. The lack of a coherent regional political framework means that major policies for the region need to be enacted or developed by the national government. Failure to do so creates imbalance and inefficiency, if not outright confusion and mismanagement.

 

As we begin to develop and reimagine our cities to face a “new normal,” the importance and value of good planning principles remain the same but become much more pronounced. We have begun to notice the inadequacies of our urban environment and will need to address this or risk creating unlivable conditions and extending the problems of Metro Manila to the greater region.

 

Manila, 2021 – Philippine Daily Inquirer publishes WTA Architect William Ti’s City of Tomorrow Column: Megacities and the story of our future. Click here to read more.

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WTA Architecture Design Studio Principal Architect, William Ti Jr., shares his Social Architecture lecture at the Architecture Construction City (ACC) Conference by Politecnico di Torino. Curated by Mauro Berta and Edoardo Bruno, the conference is entitled, Architecture: ENDLESS FORMS MOST BEAUTIFUL ACC that was live streamed last March 31, 2021 on the DASP Students website.

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City of Tomorrow: Where do we go from here?

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Community Street Park for every barangay

Exactly a year ago from today, we brought together a special group of people to help augment the capacity of our hospitals by building emergency quarantine facilities. This program was spearheaded by myself, Dr. Glenn Angeles and Maj. Carmelo Jaluague. We felt that the best way for us to help fight the pandemic was by making sure that the hospitals had enough room for everyone who needed it.

Our idea to build a few prototypes quickly evaporated as the events overtook us and we ended up building 75 facilities all over Mega Manila. We needed so many people to help build, organize and raise funds for this endeavor: Gen. Wilhelm Ilagan, Prim Paypon, Jason Ang, Dan Quiaoit, Banjo Badayos, Arvin Pangilinan, Jeffrey Cheah, Rebecca Plaza, Rommel Laquian, Denise De Castro, Danny Ko, Gene Go, Pauline Morales, Luca Arcari, Felipe Agustin, Eric Salanguit, Eric Tan, Kryzta Castillo, Arianna Rodriguez, Justin Wee Eng, Alyana Acacio, Benjee Mendoza, An Bermejo, Jason and Nikki Buensalido, Sonny Sunga, Arthur Austria, and over 400 other architects, soldiers, builders and vendors who came together to make the facilities happen. Through it all, we always thought to ourselves, if it takes an entire village, then let us begin by working together as a village, and together, we build as one…

Community Street Park for every barangay

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Essentials for a barangay

…We are proposing the development of community street parks not just for our affluent neighborhoods, but for those who need it more. We seek to reclaim the streets for the people and help build stronger community bubbles by passively minimizing unnecessary travel and commute.

 

What does a community street park do? These parks provide immediately accessible open space. It increases the space available to people from sidewalks to whole streets. It provides the leisure spaces that they would travel to in their immediate vicinity. It passively lessens commute, mass gathering and alleviates intimate crowding. It is a hyperlocal passive solution to cross pollination between communities.

 

What is inside a community street park? Entertainment, playgrounds, trade, workshop, food and space to alleviate our vulnerable communities. The parks will provide entertainment with free internet and movies and free books from a library. It will provide non-tactile playgrounds for kids. There will be a trade hall for local vendors and a workshop to provide tools and teach crafts to augment incomes. It will provide garden patches to augment food supply. Most importantly, it will provide shaded open air seating space for people who need them.

Where can we put a community street park? We need these parks in tightly packed streets where informal settlements and low rise community housing cannot provide adequate space. Areas like Tondo in Manila or Pinyahan in Quezon City are prime candidates for a better urban environment.

 

Philippine Daily Inquirer publishes WTA Architect William Ti’s City of Tomorrow Column: Where do we go from here?. Click here to read more.

 


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Anthology Festival 2021: Nature, Building, and City for “Our City

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Anthology Festival 2021 - Anthology Talks Maison H

Anthology Festival, an annual architectural festival held by WTA Design & Studio on March 19-21, 2021. Different from previous years and adjusting to the current pandemic conditions, the Anthology Festival 2021 is transformed into a virtual event with free online accessibility through the Anthology Festival’s official Facebook page.

However, this virtual event’s concept still attracted every session that was held. The 6th Anthology Festival with the theme “Our City” brings several practitioners of architecture, city development, art, and education. The talks and discussions in this event became more diverse and came from many points of view. Even the panelists and speakers involved are from various countries in the world. From the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, to China..

Starting with some young architects on the first day, the Anthology Festival presents Benjee Mendoza (BAAD Studio) on the Scale Model Tour. Then, other young architects were also present at the Shelter Dialogues session. They discussed trends and social media among young architects. Then, the first day of the festival was closed with Anthology Talks with Martijn de Geus and Han Zhang (Maison H), as well as the announcement of the winner of the “Revamp: Our Jeep” competition.

The second day was also interesting. This time, it opened with the Scale Model Tour with Cathy Saldana (PDP Architects). In contrast to the previous day, the festival on March 20, 2021, consisted of two Anthology Sessions. First session with Jason Buensalido (Buensalido Architects) who shared how models help them in studying fluidity building designs. Then it was followed by the presence of lecturers from various countries who talked about the teaching process during the pandemic. Various panelists also attended the Shelter Dialogue. Here they believe that one of the things that make up a city is the people in it.

Archinesia publishes about WTA Design Studio’s annual event Anthology Festival 2021 : Nature, Building, and City for “Our City”

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Anthology Festival 2021: Our City

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For the past 5 years, Anthology Festival has delved into themes that revolve around current events in the hopes of furthering the practice of Architecture and its involvement in making the city a better place for all. This year, the 6th Anthology Architecture and Design Festival is transformed into a 3-day virtual event that will reach an even wider public with free online accessibility. It is centered around the theme, “Our City”, that shines a light on the continuous transformation of architectural necessities that make our cities. It seeks to break down the shapes of our past cities to inform the adapting city of today.

A city is a complex series of cogs and wheels. One cog is seemingly unrelated to that of another wheel, but both have to be operating well for the whole system to actually work. It is an ecosystem of multi-disciplinary facets dependent within and outside of its community. The festival invites us to explore the principles of art, culture, and architecture that foster positive human behavior, and ultimately, stimulate holistic progress in the built environment. It aims to reveal these contributions in an effort to join the conversation over a badly-needed system makeover.

“Our City” highlights the continuous redefinition of architecture in the city that challenges us to explore different fields in hopes to create a more cohesive and collaborative community. It forces us to express our ideas of a better tomorrow. The festival aims to inspire the individual to affect change in the face of adversity. It acts as a point of engagement to share experiences and address our challenges together.

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City of Tomorrow: Twelve Luxury Flats

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 William Ti, Jr. | Philippine Daily Inquirer

Dron shot of the Twelve Luxury Flats building by WTA Design Studio

 

The City of San Juan is a lovely residential neighborhood at the geographical center of Metro Manila. At only 595 hectares, San Juan is the Philippines’ smallest city with Greenhills Shopping Center and its surrounding villages occupying a significant portion of that land area.

Spaces to live, thrive

In the altered age of the new normal, we are forced to rethink the roles of density, public space and barriers. We need space to live and to thrive.

This time, it’s about creating enough space to accommodate people. In social distancing, there is still the social.

We must become conscious of the spaces we need and occupy. We must encourage openness and spread out utilization of public space. Density done right permits and promotes interactions and social connections essential to a healthy city.

 

We’ve always been actively pursuing the development of milder, more sustainable living conditions for the city—one that allows for comfortable and attractive spaces with a healthy group of friendly neighbors in a smaller footprint that allows for more ideal locations, a living ground plane, and a smaller impact on our environment.

Sustainability begins with a sustainable home. Sustainable homes shorten travel distances and limit the per capita occupation of more land.

Our designs for the establishment of mid-rise medium density residences with Twelve Luxury Flats translate sprawl into vantage or height. We stacked 12 residences into a smaller footprint in a more ideal location. Each unit is the same size as a typical townhouse and allows for a greater degree of privacy. There are no walls that you share with neighbors, no visibility of your movement through the front door or windows. Yet there a number of shared community spaces on various floors that can encourage stronger bonds among neighbors.

Balcony Design on the Twelve Luxury Flats Building by WTA Design Studio
Bedroom interior design overlooking the Manila City at the Twelve Luxury Flats building by WTA Design Studio
Our designs for the establishment of mid-rise medium density residences with Twelve Luxury Flats translate sprawl into vantage or height. We stacked 12 residences into a smaller footprint in a more ideal location. Each unit is the same size as a typical townhouse and allows for a greater degree of privacy.

Renewed appreciation

 

The pandemic has renewed our appreciation for bigger homes. Balconies become our immediate connection to fresh air, to direct sunlight, to the outside world. Each balcony becomes a garden overlooking the city and serving as the central space of each unit. This personal yet open space allows for a blurring of the indoor and outdoor by creating an unmatched and unhindered affinity with the sky.

 

Philippine Daily Inquirer publishes WTA Architect William Ti’s City of Tomorrow Column: Twelve Luxury Flats. Click here to read more.


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MAKNA 2020 ASA 2021

February 1, 2021February 11, 2021 WTA

Archinesia invites WTA Design Studio to “MAKNA 2020 & ASA 2021” last January 30, 2021. Principal Architect William Ti and Senior Manager Arvin Pangilinan shared their challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Furthermore, they shared their hopes for a brighter 2021. This event was also in celebration of Archinesia’s 9th anniversary.

In the span of 12 hours, Archinesia was able to connect several ASEAN architects and professionals namely:

Abimantra Pradhana, Achmad Tardiyana, Adela Askandar, Adjie Negara, Alex Bayu, Alexis Dornier, Andra Matin, Andrew Tirta, Andy Rahman, Antonius Richard, Antony Liu, Arvin Pangilinan, Ary Indra, Audite Matin, Baskoro Tedjo, Boy B. Sembiring, Budi Pradono, Budiman Hendropurnomo, Charlie Hearn, Chatpong Chuenrudeemol, Cosmas Gozali, Daliana Suryawinata, Danny Wicaksono, Deddy Wahjudi, Defry Agatha, Denny Setiawan, Diana Nazir, Dirgantara I Ketut, Doddy A Tjahjadi, Effan Adhiwira, Eko Prawoto, Florian Heinzelman, Francis Surjaseputra, Gabi Osri, Gregorius Supie Yolodi, Gunawan Tjahjono, Hafiz Amirol, Her Pramtama, Jacob Gatot Surarjo, Jessica Auditama, Joe Willendra, Kamil Muhammad, Kurjanto, Lea Aziz, Maria Rosantina, Mustapha Kamal, Nguyen Hoang Manh, Paulus Setyabudi, Putu Edy Semara, Ramadhoni Dwi Payana, Realrich Sjarief, Reza Nurtjahja, Rina Renville, Santi Alaysius, Sibarani Sofian, Sigit Kusumawijaya, Stephanie Larassati, Steve J. Manahampi, Sukendro Priyoso, Tan Loke Mun, Theodore Chan, Thoat Fauzi, Vasu Virajsilp, Wendy Djuhara, Widiadnyana, William Ti, Woerjantari Kartidjo, Yu Sing.

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City of Tomorrow: Our City Anthology Festival 2021

January 30, 2021February 2, 2021 William Ti, Jr. | Philippine Daily Inquirer

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We spend more than 90 percent of our lives in our city. We eat, sleep and work here. We grow up and raise our children here. For the last 6,000 years, the story of man has been intertwined with that of our cities. Our populations have long been thriving in our urban environment. More than half of humanity now live in cities. More than 4 billion people are living on 3 percent of the world’s land mass.

 

We have laws and advocacies to protect and care for our natural environment. Yet where are the laws and regulations that protect our urban environments? We have building codes and urban plans that control and determine the safety and growth of our homes and cities. We control this artificial environment we have built around us, but oftentimes we forget that, as with most things, it, too, needs care and protection.

 

If degradation of our natural environment harms so many of the world’s wildlife, degradation of our urban environment harms us directly. The quality of our public spaces, the accessibility of open spaces, the preservation of our urban history and heritage, and the efficiency of our roads all affect our physical and mental health and balance. Yet what else lies beyond that?

 

How do we take care of the natural, physical and human aspects of our urban ecosystem? How do we extend our attention beyond the physical spaces that we occupy and own into the urban relationships that determine the well-being of our cities? What are the socio-ecological systems that we’re forming with each and every structure we build?

 

Anthology is a festival that brings together architects and designers, policy makers and advocates, to shine a spotlight on our built environment. This year, we are seeking to create awareness about our city, about its physical and social aspects, about its health and well-being, about how we should care about this urban environment we have built to protect and provide for the vast majority of humanity.

Anthology is a festival that brings together architects and designers, policy makers and advocates, to shine a spotlight on our built environment.
Special guests on stage at the Anthology Festival 2020

This year’s festival, with the theme “Our City,” will be held online from March 19 to 21. We are bringing together everyone in our community to celebrate and share their ideas for our cities. The festival is open to everyone and will be streamed live on YouTube and Facebook. We are also inviting everyone to participate in our chatrooms via Zoom and Viber. Registration is now open at Anthologyfest.org.

We invite everyone to actively join the discussion this year during, before and after the festival. We have set up an architecture community on Viber for everyone to join and we hope to have everyone engage in our various chatrooms and platforms as we collectively strive to garner attention and focus ideas on “Our City.”

Manila – Philippine Daily Inquirer publishes WTA Architect William Ti’s City of Tomorrow Column: Our City Anthology Festival 2021. Click here to read more.

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