Interweave

The Hawker Centre is a social nexus point in Singaporean culture, bringing together family, friends and people of different cultural backgrounds to enjoy food and good company in an informal setting. The project aims to expand this notion to incorporate social programme, interweaving urban green and a plethora of leisure activities within a single active landscape. Thus establishing a new social heart of the otherwise anonymous new Punggol urban development. By translating the movement of people into a multilevel topography, the project in turn creates a water channel network that seamlessly connects the site with the new Waterway park development. The channel system works not only as a visual guide, but also serves as a flood-water catchment body, filtering the water and creating a micro-climate within. The number of water bodies in the landscape create not only a pleasing environment, but also provide water for the trees and surrounding vegetation.
The topography folds out to enable covered programme with services that blend in and out of the green park-like landscape, blurring the boundary between inside and outside. They articulate the ground in a manner that accommodate different leisure activities, based on the location on site.