HAP(P)Y LAB

CONCEPT MASTERPLAN

Paya Lebar Airbase Concept Masterplan

FUNCTION: Masterplan
SITE AREA: 1870 Hectares
LOCATION: Paya Lebar Air Base (PLAB), SINGAPORE

URBAN SYSTEMS

From material to building systems, the computational workflows, logics, and practices accumulated can be applied across different applications, scales and purpose. Hap(P)y Lab allowed us to test our hypothesis on a urban scale.

*Central Park in Midtown with a diverse mix of green, blue and community spaces to create a lush, active and neighbourly community park for everyone.*

Hap(P)y Lab is a conceptual masterplan proposal for Paya Lebar Airbase. Organized by the Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) and Singapore Institute of Planner (SIP), Hap(P)y Lab is a masterplan proposal led by Khoo Peng Beng and Belinda Huang of ARC Studio Architecture + Urbanism (SIA) and Karen Tham of AECOM Singapore (SIP). Under their leadership, 3 SIA members and 3 SIP members from different professional background collaborated on a masterplan that is developed through the lens of Well-being.

Supercharged Holon Central Lake where “Live, Work, Play, Create and Learn” are presented in this place, and business and neighborhood life are well integrated.

DENSITY GENERATION

DATA AND STATISTICS

Central to the conception of Hap(P) Lab is to increase the level of Freedom of the urban plan where the plan is continuously shaped over time through the mass participation of diverse shareholders, agencies and end-users instead of a predetermined plan that is steadfastly implemented.

The ground level mobility network of small AV and PMDs and the escalators and steps leading up to the elevated road level in the foreground

The elevated road appears to be a viaducwith active uses under it and beside it. With the road raised, lower level mobility networks can connect neighbourhoods seamlessly like these mobility paths and the waterway.

Comfortable Streetscape where people able cross the street safely, the stalls scattered along the road, small scale street can bring a lot of comfort to residents.

Pan Yi Cheng (MSA) and his team at Type0 Architecture, developed a computational open-source platform that allows multiple inputs from planners, architects, agencies and stakeholders to conduct rapid experimentations on the urban plan. The platform provides immediate evaluative results ranging from density, programmatic mix, walkability, access to greenery, environmental comfort, etc. These results form a feedback loop to refine and optimize, allowing the masterplan to be shaped collectively and simulating the urban processes that would take place as the plan is implemented progressively.