Interview

Hey guys. This week we need to find a person who work related to or living in a studio apartments.
and to find his or her views and opinion on it.

This person that I chose as an interviewee, is one of my friends who works in Surbana (Architectural Company) located at red hill Singapore. Cintamamat which is not his real name, work in Surbana as an architect assistant. He works in an architectural department. How I contacted him is through facebook and how I interview him is by online messaging through Facebook also.

Cintamamat said that the reason why small studio apartment is being built is because of the elderly. It is to provide shelter to the elderly with barrier free provision. It is built all around the Singapore's housing estate. He said that the idea of building studio apartment began in the mid 90s by the minister of home affairs (Mah Bow Tan) but he was not sure. hahahahahahah. He said that not one department specialize on the design of the studio apartment but the whole Archi department. His view is that it does not benefit the elderly because it is small and expensive. It is like the government is asking the elderly to prepare themselves to live in a smaller space when they go 7ft under. It would be better if they make it more bigger or cheaper or give it for free to the elderly, which is a nice way of paying them back for the hardwork of building up Singapore he said.

His view on the idea of studio apartment is ridiculous and scrap the idea of  building more of it because It is getting smaller and cramp. Also it does not help them much. He will not sell his present house for a studio apartment but if he had no choice he would rather migrate than to buy it.