NATURE'S REFUGE: A RE-DESIGN RESCUE PLAN

Abstract

My thesis explores Singapore’s natural heritage as a spatial refuge from the city of singapore. As city dwellers, we all love nature spaces. They make us relax, they help us detach ourselves from the city and even improve our health, as recent neurocience has revealed significantly healthier brain activity whenever one is immersed in nature. However, at the rate Singapore develops, constantly expanding the city to keep in tandem with the global economy, might it one day become utterly denuded of all traces of its natural heritage and hence the refuge those spaces provide? How can we cope with these inevitable changes to the urban fabric?