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Publication SIMPLY ADD WATER(2011-01-10) ANG WEN LING WENDY; ARCHITECTURE; ERIK GERARD L'HEUREUXClimate change such as sea level rise has captured popular fear and imagination such as prospect of whole countries disappearing beneath the seas. Authors and scientists are seeing climate change as a crisis that requires immediate actions from the government. On the other hand, there are others who flatly deny the existence of climate change. In order to study the validity of climate change and sea level rise, the viewpoints of the main protagonists involved in both pro and anti climate change will be analyzed. The focus will be mainly on rise of sea level, which is one of the consequences arising from climate change. When the sea level rises, low lying coastal areas are expected to experience increased permanent inundation, beach erosion and salt intrusion. Despite being a low lying city, faced with the possible threat of sea level rise, Singapore is still developing the infrastructure intensively on its coastline, lacking the sense of crisis. An estimation of 3% of Singapore’s total area will be inundated and 21.9% will be affected by temporary storm surges. The figures obtained are based on the mappings of Singapore till the year 2100. Having solved flooding problems through engineering for decades, Minister Mentor, Lee Kuan Yew said that no amount of engineering can prevent floods, causing much uproar among its people, especially the engineers. It leads on to probing the current engineering strategy and its relevance to Singapore in the future, in relations to the idea of sense of crisis.Publication REFRIGERATED BULK BREAKING TERMINAL(2011-05-23) ANG WEN LING WENDY; ARCHITECTURE; CHIA KOK BIN PATRICKThe thesis aims to address the paradoxical nature of capitalizing on the consequences of sea level rise and bring out the possible potentials of sea level rise on Singapore. Emphasis is always given to mitigating impacts of sea level rise rather than seeing it as an opportunity. Sea level rise will create ‘problems’ like land loss and possible increase in tidal ranges and it is especially so for Singapore, as it is a low lying country. Singapore is well known for being an entrepot for dry goods due to its prime location and the thesis seeks to utilize the ‘problems’ of sea level rise to create refrigeration to be a bulk breaking centre for frozen goods. Refrigeration is vital to the tropics because refrigeration can allow food to be kept fresh and it allows alterations to be made to the environment to suit human’s needs. The creation of refrigeration enables people to bring the natural humid environment to acceptable human comfort which is essential for people living in the tropics. The dilemma of using refrigeration is that refrigeration requires massive amount of energy to run the refrigeration systems which is critical to the energy and resources scarce world. The thesis is to utilize tidal power to run refrigeration systems.