The ‘concrete jungle’ was an interpretation of a sub-city located in Bukit Panjang. It is designed around the ethos and structure of a rainforest, considering the measurement and scale of canopy layers and the ecological cycle. Amalgamated, with the considerations of precedents that consider architecture that holds history and integrates environmental factors. The city was distributed into three main layers, where human activation occurs, and aims still to be aesthetic in form – almost representing a rainforest itself.

Group Members:

Luke Shields
Rainer Lenicek
Saskia Neacsu
Bijan San Diego

Section showing the layers of sky city supported on ‘tree canopies’ sprouting form the tops of the existing towers
Section showing the horizontal layering and integration with existing towers
Section showing the horizontal layering and integration with existing towers
The roof plane harvest rainwater and functions as a solar farm to make the intervention more sustainable
Layering of organic forms, open and closed to allow visual porosity and pocket parklands
Lower floors were removed from the existing towers and the intervention dovetailed around them