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Swinal Samant is an academic and sustainability expert with a diverse global experience of the UK, India and Singapore. She has been an Associate Professor (University of Nottingham) and Co-Program Director of MSc ISD (National University of Singapore).
Her experience of over 25 years spans across diverse contexts and has collaborated with top institutions in Asia, Europe and the USA.
Her research and design teaching focuses on environmental sustainability and carbon neutrality at building and urban scales. Tackling the imminent issues of resource depletion, ecological footprint and waste generation associated with linear economies, her research argues for systems thinking, regenerative design and circularity. She examines the implications of eliminating carbon emissions, specifically on architectural form, typologies, materiality and systems selection\integration. Her research on vertical…
Awards Innovation Jury (2024)
Urban Habitat / Urban Design Committee, Member (2016 – Present)
Expert Peer Review Committee, Member (2014 – Present)
Tall Building Academic & Teaching Committee, Member (2018 – Present)
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21 June 2019
Cities in the Sky: Elevating Singapore's Urban Spaces
Swinal Samant, National University of Singapore
Singapore has seen a phenomenal and an unprecedented transformation from a swampland to a high density urban environment since its independence in 1965, made possible...
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01 July 2018
Exploring New Paradigms in High-Density Vertical Hybrids
Swinal Samant & Srilakshmi Menon, National University of Singapore
By the year 2050, the world population is set to increase to 9 billion people, of which 66% will be living in cities. It is...
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08 August 2017
A Tale of Two Singapore Sky Gardens
Swinal Samant & Na Hsi-En, National University of Singapore
This paper examines the effectiveness of the design strategies used in two HDB developments for encouraging active usage and social interaction. The study was conducted...
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21 June 2019
Cities in the Sky: Elevating Singapore's Urban Spaces
Swinal Samant, National University of Singapore
Singapore has seen a phenomenal and an unprecedented transformation from a swampland to a high density urban environment since its independence in 1965, made possible...
01 July 2018
Exploring New Paradigms in High-Density Vertical Hybrids
Swinal Samant & Srilakshmi Menon, National University of Singapore
By the year 2050, the world population is set to increase to 9 billion people, of which 66% will be living in cities. It is...
08 August 2017
A Tale of Two Singapore Sky Gardens
Swinal Samant & Na Hsi-En, National University of Singapore
This paper examines the effectiveness of the design strategies used in two HDB developments for encouraging active usage and social interaction. The study was conducted...
17 October 2016
Swinal Samant, National University of Singapore
The rise in sustainable skyscrapers and large-scale mixed-use buildings has seen the proliferation of atria and sky-courts worldwide due to their ability to simultaneously contribute...
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