REGENERATIVE, ACCESSIBLE AND ABUNDANT BY DESIGN Film mogul Sam Goldwyn once said, “I never make predictions, especially about the future,” and in the current multifaceted, multilevel disruption, this is extremely wise advice. Yet, it becomes almost unforgivable or a dereliction of a very human duty not to tease around some of the evidence in search […]
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THE ROLE OF TRANSIENT STRUCTURES AND SPACES IN RESPONSE TO A PANDEMIC AND OTHER EMERGENCIES COVID-19 has upended urban life as we know it. It has been many things; amongst which the crisis for healthcare space has been severely exacting. In the past, we have mostly encountered ‘bang’ events like natural calamities or terror attacks. […]
How often do we say in the workplace that we could use a little vacation? And more often than not, what are the places we think of when we envision that place? Perhaps we think of a beach, a trail through the forest, the mountains or a quiet place in our very own backyards. When […]
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Urban farming is the cultivation of plants and fish, and the raising of livestock within and around cities. It commands a significant level of commerce, which makes it much more than just homesteading or subsistence farming. Urban farming is embedded into various parts of an urban ecosystem with which it is constantly interacting. It consumes […]
Shanghai Houtan Park (HP) was developed as part of the 2010 World Expo. The Expo was built on 5.3 kilometre squares of post-industrial land along the banks of the Huangpu River. It lasted 184 days and attracted some 73 million visitors. Post-Expo, the park continues to be used today as an amenity by the people […]
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Ecopuncture is acupuncture for the built environment. Each act of design, akin to a needle inserted into a living system-of-systems, seeks restorative goodness for the whole. It enhances the connectedness of the social and ecological, seeking positive reciprocity and strengthening the resilience of the whole. The approach adopted by designers on the frontlines of ecological […]
With several landmarks of towering heights, Singapore has no lack of sleek futuristic skyscrapers. The bustling metropolis is packed with residential estates, retail megamalls and offices. Even so, this high-density urban dot has earned itself the number one spot in the list of cities with the most trees in the world—a Green View Index of […]
How can we design healthcare facilities to enable the shift in thinking that healthcare is more than preventive care and pathogenesis? Can a hospital be designed to support health rather than just treating illnesses? The healthcare industry is constantly evolving, as patient needs shift, and new medication and technology change methods of treatment. The challenge […]
FUTURARC PRIZE 2019 INVITES ENTRANTS TO IMAGINE HYPER-DENSE CITIES The Asian city grows denser by the day. The FuturArc Prize 2019 asked entrants to investigate what it means to live in a hyper-dense city in Asia, one with no less than 100,000 people per square kilometre. Density can be an opportunity. The compact city can […]
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Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Only around a quarter of the total land in Hong Kong is urban or built-up, with the remaining land reserved as green areas and country parks. Coupled with a large population of over 7.3 million people, the demands on developable land far […]
HOMEGROWN NEIGHBOURHOODS The Kule family lives in a small brick house on a hillside in the suburbs of Mumbai. They are part of a majority of Mumbaikars who reside in settlements officially designated as ‘slum areas’. The Kules belong to a farmers’ caste from the Konkan, a region that stretches for hundreds of kilometres from […]
This article argues that the grey infrastructures made of steel and concrete, which we built to connect our physical world, are shallow or even fake connections that are actually the murders of the real and deep connections between human beings and nature, and among various natural processes and flows. The alternative is Green infrastructure, or […]
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