Our First Archifest: ArKIDecture X Exhale | Children Workshop

Have you ever correlate the human body system with the complex building system? Such as circulation and respiration systems in our body versus a building structure and... if it breaths. This morning, the girls and I attended an arKIDecture workshop to learn the concept of a breathable building. We were lucky to be able get the ticket for this event in Archifest, as there was very limited tickets up for grab. Here, must thank Sarah for the alert!

ArKIDecture X Exhale | Children Workshop: The Breathable City Design : Breathable Buildings.

Love that we were in the space that was walled and sheltered with rainbow-scaffolding.

After hearing about the introduction of the workshop, gotten the idea, participants were tasked to build various typology of buildings, and would had helps from one or two assigned team leaders (volunteers from SAA Architects and NAFA mostly). Our task was to build model akin housing block. (Eh... can't a house be a house, not related to block?)

Well, Jiejie was game and started sketching her idea out, and moved on to grab necessary material and build. Not meimei, however. Bomber was taken aback with the unfamiliar buzz, or maybe unfamiliar topic. She frowned, teared; struggled to sketch. I tried to encourage her by giving more ideas/examples. In the end, she drew castle. Oh, she made flower with straws.

I helped in cutting and gluing, more cutting and gluing from the other two very nice Team Leaders from SAA and NAFA too. My daughter impressed me very much. She conceptualised her housing block from her initial, H. She probably loved the colourful scaffolding and given the building facade multiple colours. She remembered the concept of breathable building, hence put up green wall features, green roof and openings on the colourful building facade. Being a kid, she didn't forget to inject the fun element into the... ahem, boring housing block- a slide. For the record, I did not chip in any idea to her little project. I was too busy with frowning Little Bomber.

Kids then took turns to depict their work.

I was a proud mama, as C, the team leader whom had helped her a lot (in cutting and gluing), observed that she was practical, able to sketch her idea on paper and executed it according to plan, as we saw that many deviated from plan, but built very innovative model.

We headed out for more fun of Raffles Place Park after the workshop. The weather was nice, not wet, not hot. The place was not crowded too.

I love being aside just to watch them having fun. It was a very nice Saturday for us spent time in CBD.

The very last time I came to Raffles Place was last year... or the year before. This time, I was struggle in navigation for the place, and I forgotten that I needed to find another place to dump my car. In the end, I chanced upon Golden Shoe Complex (which later cost me $24+, for 5 hours). And we were 5 minutes late to the event.



More about the organiser: ArKIDecture | a CSR initiative supported by SAA Architects. Go like its FB page to follow and sign up new event/activities. Albert, the host seems very good with kids!

ArchiFest, organised by Singapore Institute of Architects, has been existed for 10 years. I didn't know that, until today.