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Industrial design – public shelters.

These photographs show a public walkway in-between a building that makes pewter wares and a row of shop houses. This street, named River Valley Road, is in Singapore, a small island state in Southeast Asia. The pewter factory, The “Royal Selangor“, needs a covered space to organize mass participation activities. It is part and parcel of their marketing, to raise public awareness of their mission and also return some contributions back into society. As such, the area to be covered is huge in dimension. The architect and engineer had to collaborate to design a structure that would satisfy all basic requirements.

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