Research Period:
2012 – 2017
Team:
Hwang Yun Hye (Studio tutor), NUS MLA 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 graduated students
Collaborator:
Shawn Kaihekulani Yamauchi LUM (NIE), Tan Puay Yok (NUS), Feng Yuanqiu (NUS)
Project description:
The study is the first to examine how landscape architecture can address the socio-ecological impacts of current and future secondary forest loss in Singapore by identifying actionable and contextualized design strategies from four academic design studio projects, NUS MLA. Four projects include;
- Bukit Brown Woodland Landscape Scenario (LA4701 AY12/13)
- Pasir Ris Woodland Neighbourhood Landscape (LA4701, AY13/14)
- Tengah Forest Estate (LA4701, AY15/16)
- Tagore Forest Estate (LA4701, AY16/17)
The projects dealt with threatened secondary forest sites in Singapore and examined the ecological concepts underpinning the design strategies; these were then mapped to urban ecological principles. In the study, we attempt to reduce the gap between ecological design principles based on scientific theory and the generation of actionable design strategies that can be applied in practice.
Related papers and articles are;
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YH Hwang, S Lum, 2022, Research Questions for Dynamic Landscapes in a Rapidly Changing Tropical City, Routledge Handbook of Urban Landscape Research, Kate Bishop and Linda Corkery ed., Routledge
- Hwang, Y. H., Feng, Y. & Tan, P. Y., 2016, Deforestation in a tropical compact city part b: urban ecological approaches to design, Journal of Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, Vol. 5, No. 1, 73–92, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/SASBE-08-2015-0023
- Tan, P. Y., Feng, Y., & Hwang, Y. H., 2016, Deforestation in a tropical compact city part a: understanding its socio-ecological impacts, Journal of Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, Vol. 5, No. 1, 47–72
- Hwang, Y. H., Feng, Y., 2016, Forest estate, Tengah design studio: ten landscape architectural tactics for managing deforestation in a high-density tropical city, CityGreen, Singapore, No. 12, 46–53, DOI: http://doi.org/10.3850/S2382581216010966
- Hwang, Y.H., Tengah Forest Estates: planning and designing neighbourhood landscape of high-density, high-rise residential estates in Singapore, CityGreen, 2017, no. 14, P30-39, Co-published LAK 2017 March (Korean, no.348, P48-63) and LANDSCAPE_TILA 2017-1(Taiwanese, P6-19)