Role: Designer, master planner & manager for project completed at WOHA Architects
Status: Master plan completed (2014 – 2018)
This large scale master plan in suburban Singapore combines a new university campus for the Singapore Institute of Technology with a commercial business park, co-located to provide synergy between education and industry. The design capitalises on an existing secondary rainforest to create a ‘campus-in-a-park’, centred around a large central forest courtyard where existing mature greenery is preserved as a new park at the heart of the district.
The master plan for Punggol Digital District adopts an integrated planning approach that brings together business, education and community facilities with transport infrastructure. The district-level planning approach creates synergies, optimises land use and catalyses community building. Leveraging on the site’s undulating terrain, two public ground levels that segregate vehicles from pedestrians are created, forming a people-friendly, car-lite campus. These fenceless, 24/7 publicly accessible ground levels are interconnected across land uses throughout the district, linking shared carparks and a series of key public spaces.
Rooftops will be used for large-scale urban farming and an array of photovoltaic panels, which provide renewable energy to the district-wide micro grid.
