Entry Title: " Singapore Central Masterplan"
Company: Strenger Bauen und Wohnen GmbH, Atelier Dreiseitl, Eble Architektur , Germany
Category: Professional, Concept
Designer(s): Jessica Read


Entry Description:

Singapore Central Watershed Masterplan
For the southeast-Asian city state of Singapore, water autonomy is a top priority and the driver behind the need for an island wide urban water management strategy. A tropical rainforest climate provides plenty of water, however this falls in fierce downpours which create a challenging situation in terms of floo d managemen t an d wate r qualit y i n a highly
populated city environment. Singapore has no other water source.
Engineering of the past has left a legacy of concrete channels, rivers of by-gone eras. Empty most of the time, during a rain storm these channels fill within minutes and unchecked torrents of reshwater race out to sea. This dangerous situation creates linear physical barriers disruptive to local
communities and ecological wastelands, depriving citizens of recreational space and wasting much needed fresh water.

Atelier Dreiseitl collaborated with Singapores Public Utilitie s Board to create a pragmatic new vision for urban water managment in the tropics. The ABC Central Watershed Urban Masterplan aims to transform Singapore into a resource rich and water productive city.

Many other cities across the world are facing exactly the same challenges. The Central Watershed Urban Masterplan provides hope and inspiration for the world that we really can turn the corner and transform our concrete jungle input-junky metropolises into smart, liveable cities.

Atelier Dreiseitl is the worlds
most sustainable landscape architecture
practice. We are a multidisciplinar y
team specialize d i n th e synthesi s of
landscape architecture, art & urban
design, environmental technology
and urban hydrology. 30 years of
experience has created a portfolio of
outstanding projects with high aesthetic
and cultural value.
The scope of the practices work
includes water sensitiv e urba n design,
streetscapes, masterplans, parks and
plazas, and down to the applied scale
of swales, biotopes and
building-integrated rainwater recycling
systems.
A total of 80 multinational staff are
based in four offices, the head office
in Ueberlingen, Germany being supported
by offices in Singapore, Beijing,
and Portland, USA. Many innovative
projects have been successfully
carried out throughout the world in
Europe, North America, the Middle
East and Asia.
Key projects include:
Singapore Central Watershed Urban
Masterplan and its related Water
Sensitive Urban Design Guidelines as
well as the 3km Kallang River
restoration within the newly designed 60
ha Bishan Park The creation
of an urban waterfront at the Potsdamer
Platz in the heart of Berlin with
building integrated rainwater recycling
systems Masterplan and ongoing
construction of a new sustainable
city quarter called Telecom Park in
Taipei The transformation of an
industrial railyard in Portland, Oregon
into a vibrant award-winning urban
park The artistic , natura l cooling
system at the Paragon McLaren
Headquarters in London Design
of a
resource productive new town in
Pfaffenhofen, Germany.

Answers to a challenging future:
Global climate change, urbanisation, and

* 2011 Green Awards - 1st Place Winner - Build Category