A Dongseo University (DSU) design team has received praise from a local community in Singapore for designing soundproof walls at an urban railway construction site in Singapore.
Starting on November 1st of last year, the Public Design and Lighting Association and Design Division of DSU undertook the task of creating a huge soundproof wall called “Pavilion Graphic Art” in Singapore. At a height of 15m, a width of 40m, and a length of 20m, it was completed on December 5th.
The soundproof wall shields people from noise, dust, and other particles at the construction site built by SK E&C. The wall is made of aluminum panels and features a greeting from eight different countries incorporated into big balloons. The work will be on display until the end of 2013.
Professor Ahn Byung Jin, the Director of the Public Design and Lighting Association, managed the whole project, which many students of DSU participated in. As he explains, it is popular work not only for construction workers, but also civilians in the area. “It has received good responses. The workers take their pictures with the pavilion during their breaks and local residents have also said good things.”
Previously, the DSU team designed and constructed eco-friendly sculptures and murals in a town near the DMZ in July of last year. This project was considered a good model of a domestic university installing public art, and one which could be replicated abroad. Another DSU team project was the 2010 installation of “Graphic Art on Steel Skeleton Construction,” also in Singapore.