4 Days in Singapore

Day 2

In this second day of our trip. We were going to NUS and have a lecture about ZEB, which is the second destination of that day, and then going to URA, and last having a great walking time in Henderson Wave and Forest Walk.

9 in the morning, we began our lecture with Prof.Wong in charge of explaining. He’s one from three professors doing experiment in ZEB. A great Man I guess, he explained everything in English, but I can understand it clearly, since he spoke perfectly clear and his explanation is amazingly easy to understand. He gave us lots of information about ZEB and some tips about green building. 

Mr. Wong

      photographs of Angela Rinta 

And this short lecture (it lasted about two hours, but somehow I felt it so short) I  think is the best learning green building time I had of all my trip.

ZEB means Zero Energy Building, but not like it’s name, it’s not really zero in consuming energy. It’s Impossible for a building to consume zero energy. So, what happened in this ZEB is, it reduces the use of energy to almost zero. It’s quite difficult to understand, but Prof. Wong showed us some calculating and diagrams that showed this almost zero thing.

In ZEB, there’re some experimental green features such as light pipes (a glass made dome like that works as sun light distributor), solar chimney (a chimney that takes up then out heat from a room using stack effect), a displacement cooling system (an AC installed on the floor and somekind of speakers), Solar Panel to provide electricity, Green roof, green wall, and some experimental shadings and windows. 

Solar Chimney

Green Roof

Light Pipes

Green Wall

There’s also a mini gallery on the first floor consisting all the miniatures of green features installed in this building, so that people can understand more about how it all works.

Feeling enough with ZEB, we went to URA. This is where all BIG PLANS of Singapore is revealed. URA for me is the best designed place I visited of all. It has the greatest space I’ve ever been. A circle all black carpeted room with 5 screens inside giving us an introduction of Singapore.

There in URA, they have a room with huge model of Singapore consisting all built cool buildings and great ideas they’re going to make them happened. They have also some spaces to inform how Singapore was, how old buildings in Singapore treated, and everything we need to know about their BIG PLANS.

 

 

And as a bonus, we have also an exhibition from Richard Rogers on the first floor. A wonderful exhibition with wonderful things exhibited, and wonderful ways of exhibiting. I really wished that later our “Pasca KKA” will at least be like it. Amin. 

photographs of : Angela Rinta

photographs of : Nur Zahrotunissa Zagi

 

Having our legs really tired and quite aching, we’re still going to forest walk. Yeah. Just like it’s name , this forest walk is designed to have great walking time just like in forest. But due to my legs condition, I chose to just stay in Henderson Wave. A spiral like bridge facing one of the best view in Singapore.

photographs of : Satrio Teguh Nugroho

I think this bridge is actually designed for people who have tired of walking in forest walk, but since I’ve tired even before walking in forest walk, then I just rested instead. 

photographs of : Satrio Teguh Nugroho

 

Having enough rest, my friend Juri asked me to go to Jembatan berbatas langit . An intresting place just by the name I guess, and so I joined him also with another friend Satrio. Juri then took us the wrong way. We unintendedly  reached a highway instead of Jembatan berbatas langit Juri said before.

And so we kept walking, walking, and walking, till we met another friend of us. They said we still have to go further to reach this jembatan berbatas langit, which is actually the forest walk we have to study.

Considering the visiting time we had is not much left enough, we decided to run just to see this forest walk thing. And so we ran, ran, ran, till we finally reached forest walk. It’s cool place to walk. It zig zag-ly up and down ramps like made of somekind of horizontally holed steel I guess. But since we hove not much time left, we just took some photographs there, and then again, we ran back to Henderson Wave. It went oppositely like I planned, which is just to have a good rest in Henderson Wave.

photographs of : Satrio Teguh Nugroho

 

picture taken from google

And ohh! We had a little incident happened that time. So, we had two bus(s) parked near the Henderson Wave. It’s in a “turunan” where the bus(s) parked. Don’t know why, one of the bus suddenly went backwards downly towards the other bus. And so the crash happened. “BRACK !!”. both of the mirrors of the bus(s) were broken, but thank God, no one is injured. 

sketsa rekonstruksi kejadian

 photographs of : Satrio Teguh Nugroho

 

And so, we had to change our bus(s), so we were “dropped” in the nearest mall, vivo city. We had dinner there, till we then picked up by the new bus and going back to our hotel.