
2020
A mix-used commercial spaces at
Bishan Harmony (Skate) Park, Singapore.
Site Context

selected site
Cemetery
1870
URA Master Plan 1958
Bishan New Town
1980s
After being bombed, it was further destroyed by the mass exhumation.
This was where Bishan New Town sprang up, leading its way to the current one.
2020
Residential | Educational | Industrial Estate | Commercial | Park | Worship | Sports | Developing | "Outsider"
Presently, the neighborhood has rich demography, driving a robust urban metabolism on its own.
WWII
1945
Peck San Theng Village
1900
Site Study

Sun Path
Wind
Path
Crowd
Traffic
Traffic
Flow
Trees,
Mounds,
Slopes

Program Schedule
outdoor skate / scooter / bike access
indoor skate*
exercise
marketplace
food serving / dining / study & work lounge
workshop / sharing session while waiting for kids at school**
* leisure / food serving / food rainy days
** cooking / knitting / gardening / etc.
User types from three dominating neighborhoods:
residents, students, office workers.
Concept

Journey of uncovering the mound’s potentials

Site "dead" mounds
Isolated people during pandemic with self-comfort and suspicion over others
Subtracted mounds
Letting go of ourselves
Uncovered layers
Discovering each other’s
potentials
New "living" spaces
Forming a collaborative and contributive community
New “living” spaces; collaborative skate / workshop / dining area
The ongoing pandemic has drive people to look at everything and everyone outside as suspicious enemies. Consequently, people stay home, and multifunctionality within an interior space has become the new normal, while public spaces are left almost untouched.
As reflected on the selected site,
are we letting these mounds and even ourselves..
to go back and become the burial ground of potentials?
The design breathes a new life into these mounds by uncovering layers of it. It resonates with us from being isolated beings during the pandemic to welcome the “next normal” to reconnect and contribute to the community by first letting go a part of ourselves (our suspicion, individualistic comfort) and allow a collaborative space to carry out each other’s potentials.
Plan & Section


Visuals

FREE SEATING ON RECESSED MOUNDS
STEPS RESTING AREA
(MARKETPLACE)
STUDY / WORK LOUNGE
INDOOR SKATE AREA
LOBBY
(CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING BUS STOP)
ROOFTOP AREA
WORKSHOP / DINING

indoor skate / workshop / dining area; on rainy days, people can still skate here in the indoor skate area. another skate area is on the rooftop and it can be seen from the second floor, there is also direct slides from the rooftop to this level.
Sketches
Initial Exploration










Subsequent Exploration


