1,000 Singapores

Posted Thursday, August 12, 2010 by SixSevenEightNine in Labels: , ,










Singapore is capable of housing 6.5 million people.
Singapore occupies only about 700km2.

Multiply that by 1000, it is possible to fit the entire world’s population into a land area approximately twice of Italy, equal to Texas, 1/5 of India, 1/10 China...

1000 Singapores is also about the thousand faces of a high density city-state – a portrait of the diversity of the living environment and the people who live there. Ultimately, if 6.5million people are able to live sustainably on 700km2, this then offers a powerful model for the compact city of the future.

A city that is green.
A city that is transit-oriented.
A city with high intensity and fully integrated infrastructure.
A city that manages water and waste efficiently and effectively.
A city where the residents are creative and productive.
A city of innovation and ideas.
A city where diversity and differences are celebrated.
A city that is complete and fully connected.
A city that houses the world.

1000 Singapores takes housing beyond architectural typology. Housing is shown as an active act to create communities - a meta-project integrating architecture with governance, social systems, finance and infrastructure. Starting from the most basic pre-fabricated component, 1000 Singapores demonstrates how this is scaled up to towers, neighbourhoods, new towns, districts and the nation.

From the pragmatic to the sublime; from public housing toprivate housing; from the carefully planned micro-home to the townships strung together by rapid transit; from social policies to estate management, 1000 Singapores will paint a picture of an intelligent city based on home ownership. A city where the house forms a critical building block of society.

1000 Singapores explores the character and qualities of a compact city and how people and architecture meet to form avibrant society. With one 35m long model and a thousand images, this exhibition will tease apart the many melodic strands of this intricate planning fugue to show how it all comes together as one complex system.

Commissioner:
Jeffrey Ho
Co-Commissioner:
Ashvinkumar

Curators:
Khoo Peng Beng - Lead Curator
Belinda Huang
Erik G. L'Heureux
Florian Benjamin Schaetz





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