Air Rights Structures in a Multi-Layered City
Performative Design
Supervisor - Mr. Shinya Okuda
Land scarcity poses a pressing concern for Singapore as it readies itself for a population increase of 6.9 million people by 2030. This thesis seeks to explore the possibilities of crafting this multi-level city and looking at how air rights can become a new paradigm for nation building in Singapore.
Spanning the wider districts of Cantonment, Duxton Hill and Downtown Tanjong Pagar, Yggdrasil, a sports-centric complex, posits the possibilty of the use of air rights to conceive ‘floating structures, in the sky, effectively re-intesifying the density of the city as it seeks for more available space. This also transform the network of the city from a 2-dimensional to a 3-dimensiol one, as these elevated datums not only serve to connect, but to also enhance the experience of the city through integrated programming while simultaneously relieving the ground plane from congestion.
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