Programme

Adaptive Reuse, Masterplanning

Location

Bukit Timah Fire Station, Singapore

Client

Homestead Holland pte ltd

Timeline

2021 – 2022

AREA

8,264 sqm

TEAM

Architecture: Provolk Architects
Community Programming and Engagement: WY-TO Singapore

COLLABORATORS

Environmental Engineer: Building System Diagnostics (BSD)
Structural Engineer: Spectrum Structural Engineers
M&E Engineer: IEM Engineering Consultants
Quantity Surveyor: BKG Consultants
Landscape Architects: Land Design ONE
Conservation Specialist: Studio Lapis
Place-makers: Shophouse & Co
Seed Farm: The Farmers

WINNER

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A holistic place envisioning that anticipates future challenges in our co-evolvement with the Planet

Modern capitalist short-term goals are reevaluated through Good Food, Good Life’s advocacy for longevity in Prosperity with bottom-up initiatives in circularity and sustainability. Nestled within immediate proximity of Singapore’s oldest and largest nature reserve – Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, the intuitively developed narrative informed the resultant concept of the Virtuous Food Cycle. This concept contextually addresses environmental concerns such as energy efficiency and low carbon energy, biodiversity and urban re-vegetation of the 10 Climate Challenges from the C40 Reinventing Cities. The gazetted fire station will reopen to strengthen the bond of the Planet, People and Heritage.

In ensuring that the refreshed 70-year-old monument is climatically relevant, strategies root to minimize carbon stress and work toward the goal of net-zero emissions. The Environmental Specialists on-board ensure that all proposed design interventions meet Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority (BCA)’s green building rating system, locally known as the Green Mark Certification Scheme.

Design strategies are approached to place focus on retaining the building’s heritage integrity. In translating this intangible and valuable aspect, the green formula centres passively to transform them into measurable steps for Green Mark Platinum Zero Energy Certification, one of the highest accolades in the Singapore Green Marks Certification.

A pioneer of its kind in Singapore, the place visioning and programming of “Good Food, Good Life” is representative of how the future built environment plans can be shaped contextually to enhance the unique identity while achieving sustainable economies of returns.

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