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Uncertain Adventure @Former Bukit Timah Fire Station

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Site Location: 260 Upper Bukit Timah Rd, Singapore 588190

Project duration: 4 months
Motive: To create a natural environment learning space for family, kids and naturalists and promote lifelong learning through observation, play & hands-on activities.
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Design Concept

Learning from and in an ecosystem. 

Everything is connected in an ecosystem. There is a support system, give & take, observe, learn & adapt. They have a relationship where they depend on each other to survive. 

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An Ecosystem

  • is always constantly growing and evolving.

  • is very resilient and adaptable.

  • is very diverse yet connected through interrelated patterns. Cycles such as nutrients, water, energy flow & etc.

  • can create opportunities for inter-mingling.

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Ideation of Project

The way children learn today is in a confined room...
Adults have become lifeless from their busy urban life...
The reason is that we lack exposure to nature. Thus, I wanted to create a space to foster learning and rejuvenation in nature. Mimicking an ecosystem, users absorb the forest's ambience through their senses and observation skills. Space provides children to learn through observation, play & hands-on activities. While boosting their curiosity and enhancing their creative thinking. Users can come here to reset their minds and bodies, leaving them renewed and refreshed to tackle their challenges in life.

Programmes & Features

◊ Activities

  1. Children Hideout

  2. Organic Food Hub

  3. Pocket Seating Deck

  4. Dancing Hills

  5. Foraging Arboretum

  6. Meditational Sanctuary

  7. Pocket Amphitheatre

  8. Isle

  9. Oasis

◊ Paths

  1. Observers Path

  2. Wanderers Path

  3. Nparks Bridge

  4. Gaia Boulevard

Target Audience

  • Family

  • Kids

  • Naturalist

Masterplan of Activities

Masterplan of Activities

Nature Gateway (Observe, Learn & Adapt from Nature)

Nature Gateway (Observe, Learn & Adapt from Nature)

The building on the left previously BLK 276, is now an organic food hub. With an open outdoor café on the 1st floor and a restaurant on the 2nd & 3rd floor. The food hub will create opportunities for jobs. It will also be used as a platform to learn about forgeable plants through food. As food can be use as a learning tool to teach people how to use these native plants in their meals.

Entrance

Entrance

The 2nd floor connects to the Former Station Master’s House has been turned into a children hideout, where the community can donate their old toys so that the new generations can enjoy & learn how kids play in the past.

Dancing Hills

Dancing Hills

There are upwards hills for kids to climb and play with and to experience height. There are trampolines built over the natural indentation at the site to exaggerate the depth of the indents.

Pocket Seating Deck

Pocket Seating Deck

This is a pocket seating area for parents to take a break while their kids play at the dancing hills.

Isle

Isle

This is another nature playground that has a mini rock climbing hill and a stepping stone play feature. Kids can play at the stream like how it was in the past.

Oasis

Oasis

The oasis has a zipline and other climbing play feature. There is also a slide that leads to the stream.

Activities

Activities

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