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112 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD FEBRUARY <strong>2015</strong> BUILDING TYPE STUDY RENOVATION, RESTORATION, ADAPTATION National Design Centre | Singapore | SCDA Architects 5(/,*,286&219(56,21
113 Once a Catholic school, a set of buildings from different decades of the 20th century has been transformed into a modern design hub. BY CLIFFORD A. PEARSON PHOTOGRAPHY BY AARON POCOCK HISTORICAL PROGRESSION Three of the four buildings comprising the 85,000-squarefoot NDC face Middle Road (left) with the oldest on the right and the newest on the far left (also seen above). &hange comes from within. Such advice applies not just to people but to buildings, especially those of a certain age and protected by heritage designation. With this in mind, Soo Chan, principal of the Singapore-based firm SCDA Architects worked from the inside out on the transformation of a Catholic school into Singapore’s National Design Centre (NDC). While mostly restoring the exteriors of the four buildings that make up the former Saint Anthony Convent school, Chan added and subtracted key spaces on the inside. The buildings—three of which date from the 1920s and ’30s and the fourth from the ’40s—represent a range of styles from British Colonial to Moderne. They sit in the Bras Basah/Bugis part of town, a few blocks from the historic Raffles Hotel and across the street from Ken Yeang’s National Library (record, August 2006, page 90). Three of the structures line up along busy Middle Road and are connected inside, while the fourth sits behind them on quieter Queen Street, separated by just a driveway. The NDC serves as the home of the DesignSingapore Council, the national agency for developing the design sector, and provides tenant space to a variety of private design firms, a prototyping lab, and a design store. An auditorium, a library, a roof deck, a central atrium, galleries, and meeting rooms are available to the tenants for events, making the NDC a hub for the design community. Chan made his biggest moves inside the 1940s corner building, where he covered an outdoor courtyard with a folded skylight to create a central atrium, and removed parts of old floor slabs to make room for a set of metal-mesh-clad View additional images at architecturalrecord.com.
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