Lets all feast!
In view of the boom of sharing economy in Singapore, Tanjong Pagar harbour is envisioned as an experiment neighbourhood for testing, analysing and evaluating different forms of participation and sharing that can be promoted in the high-density, tropical urban environment. Everyone in the neighbourhood, including residents, workers and visitors are seen as a potential participant in certain activities that will ultimately produce meaningful sharing.
The key questions to the design studio follows:
1) how does sharing practice challenges the present conceptions of architecture and urbanism?
2) what kind of new architecture and urban environment can effectively accommodate and facilitate new forms of sharing?
Our aim is to imagine how different forms of participation and sharing can be related and orchestrated to create a coherent community. Through the means of engaging the crowd by tapping on to their contribution of food waste which will be processed to produce fresh crops for the community. This interaction perceives the crowd as a testing subject to experiment on new ways of urban farming and food production as well as to promote a community of farming and cooking to strengthen the social bonds. Towering skyscrapers allocated towards the production of alternative food sources have been envisioned within the idealized future neighbourhood as a means of the sharing city in an attempt towards self-sustainability and survival. Highly maintained by A.I robotics and machinery, minimal human supervision would be required to sustain the production of food source.
