Demolition Demolished extends the carbon and expands the community in a collection of 31 Housing Development Board (HDB) blocks without demolition at Tanglin Halt, a subzone of the Queenstown planning area currently undergoing the Selective En-bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS). The thesis rejects demolition as the primary redevelopment method, embracing adaptive reuse as a viable alternative. Adaptive reuse is understood expansively as a critique of the carbon form of the original blocks. In addition, adaptive reuse is framed as a means to expand on the definition of family structure allowed to participate in the HDB model. A series of additions on top of the blocks in Mass Engineered Timber (MET) cater not only to new real estate but also facilitate new forms of housing and living that embrace collective to individual living, righteous and pious identities along with LGBTQ communities and lives outside of the typical constructs in Singapore today.

- Assoc. Prof. Erik G. L'Heureux