1000 Singapores: A Model of the Compact City

A complement to the exhibition represented Singapore at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition (La Biennale di Venezia) held between 29 August to 21 November 2010 in Venice, Italy.

1000 Singapores put together a thousand architectural diagrams and images around a 35-metre long scaled model of a section through the length of Singapore from west to east. This showcased the citystate’s people and its varied urbanscape, including industrial estates, public housing, financial district and nature reserves. The images and the model were housed in a tube made up of a thousand components inspired by the vernacular ventilation blocks found in traditional shophouses. The tube began as a rectangle and changed into a profile of a house with a pitched roof, corresponding to Singapore’s public to private housing ratio of 83 per cent to 17 per cent.