NUS Architecture Bash

The location is weird. Traditionally, night time Mount Faber is reserved for couples, the guitar under moonlight watching stars, city lights below our feet scenario, but the archi students are now throwing a bash there. My heart goes out to that poor guy who plans to take his girl up that day, he will need a contingency plan, Labrador Park seems like a good idea. Thanks to NUS archi students.

So much for respecting the land and its traditional program. The idea of injecting a new program into a currently perfectly working condition seems wrong, you do not hold a bash at location that do not normally accommodates bashs simply because you think it is a unique idea. It is a unique idea to hold a bash inside the law courts, but because the program traditionally associated with such a place will object and their voice is much stronger than dating couples, nobody dares to hold a bash inside the courts. It will be unique if the Archi Bash is held in the old power station at Labrador Park or some disused HDB flat's roof top or even Chinatown alleyways. Alleyways traditionally the "back of house" for shophouses has became the intimate spaces for a variety of programs in other countries when the sun sets.

The point is that you do not remove a place of its traditional program because you want to try something new. You try to change the program when the place has no useful traditional or current program and u inject new life into it or you think that the current program is not functioning well enough. Apparently the organizing committee decide that couples on Mount Faber at night is not fully utilizing the space well enough.

What would be better is hold the Bash at the cable car tower instead! Then as the night progresses, couples couples can take cable car to Mount Faber for some private space. Furthermore the committee can run a "hire a car" scheme on a hourly rate there. One do not make money from the ticket but from hiring out the cars. To minimized accidents due to drink driving, the committee can, in the afternoon parked the cars nicely spaced on the road side with a number. Couples arrived at Mount Faber are given "room keys". Although the guy bringing up his girl for some guitar under moonlight watching stars, city lights below our feet will be disappointed because he cannot find a parking spot but the disappointment is different, at one unluckiness rather then at a establishment. The traditional function of the space is not changed.