Common Ground

This project aspires to be a coherent and imageable urbanistic form in a highly irregular and fragmented urban landscape. With the site being located in Singapore, where centralised planning and organisation is continuously perpetuated, coherence and bigness is assumed. This project also envisions an incoming, new and restructures society that is based on effectiveness, driven by two apparent trends observed in the current Post-Fordist economy.

Firstly, a society that is experiencing the collapse of hierarchical structures is seeing more integrated and interconnected flows of capital and information, flattening nuances created by the order of the previous Fordist economy. Secondly, the affective and emotive induced by play is increasingly integrated into the production of value, resulting in a seamless integration of work and play that is defined by characteristics of ephemerality and indeterminacy. As such, this project assumes these predictions through the flattening of the site and strives to accentuate networks through connections. It is through these connections that latent activities and connections of the new society, white collared workers and most importantly, the unknown “other” are expressed. It is in hopes of this expression that it facilitates the creation of a new ‘language’ that is yet to come.