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PART III – PLAY

THE WAY WEPLAY/HOW DO WE PLAY?

This booklet ties up and ends the Project with part 3: “Play with Plants”. This project deals with the play side of “LIVE, WORK AND PLAY” and the idea of playing and having fun indoors while being around nature and plants. The definition of play in this case is by making the learning of plants and gardening fun.

Being stuck at home during the circuit breaker we had in Singapore, we had to enjoy our leisure time indoors within the four walls of our own homes. This caused us to not be able to enjoy the outdoors and the nature as often as we used to. In this part, I will be creating spaces where residents can play/relax within the HDB building itself. The ‘playing’ will be with plants as plants represent the outside.

 

 

DESIGN INTENTION

The intention is to integrate the idea of “outside” into indoor spaces. The design is mainly for the children living in the HDB to be able to have some fun while they are indoors. Adults are able to use the space as well, they can join the children in their activities or simply just take a break and rest or even garden. The intervention is having a nature trail within the HDB block by having several garden spaces on different stories of the HDB.

The nature trail will consist of four gardens, three in the residential stories and the final rooftop garden. The trail starts off with the first garden – nonflowering plants, then it continues to the second garden – flowering plants, the third garden – vegetables and fruit garden and it finally ends with the main roof garden space. The nature trail allows both children and adults to have fun going through the nature trail doing activities and learning about plants and nature.

GARDEN ONE

The first garden is on the 6th floor and is a non-flowering plant garden. The non-flowering plant species has greater adaptability to the environment, no need a strict specification on the type of location needed. The plants are able to adapt to the environments characteristics and grow well in the space, thus a higher floor for more wind and sun is not really required. The corridor space is 5m wide, 7m long and a height of 3m. The openness and location of the space allows just enough sunlight, wind, and rain to come in.
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GARDEN ONE

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GARDEN ONE

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GARDEN TWO

The second garden is on the 11th floor and is a flowering plant garden. Flowering plants do not adapt as easily as non-flowering plant, thus requiring a specific amount of sunlight in the space. The space is located on the upper floors to then provide this ample amount of sunlight needed. The space is 6m long, 5m wide and 3m in height. Though located on the opposite side of the HDB from the other two gardens, the space is still widely open and allows plenty sunlight, wind, and rain to come in.
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GARDEN TWO

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GARDEN TWO

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GARDEN THREE

The third garden is on the 13th floor and is a edible plant garden (vegetables and fruits). Most vegetable and fruit plant require a lot of sunlight. On the 13th floor, they will be able to receive direct and stronger sunlight compared to the lower floors. The space is 5m wide, 7m long and a height of 3m, it’s on the exact same side as the first garden, just that it is on another floor. The openness and location of the space allows ample sunlight, wind, and rain to come in.
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GARDEN THREE

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GARDEN THREE

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GARDEN FOUR

The rooftop garden consists of all the types of plants from the three small gardens. The rooftop garden will be on the roof of the right block and it will have seating spaces and a small greenhouse for growing of vegetables by the residents themselves or the gardeners too. This garden does not contain many activities for the residents, but instead is a space for residents to relax or exercise on their own time. The seating is done in the shape of a flower with a shelter over with trellis ceiling and climbing plants above. The climbing plants cover the outline of the trellis in order to avoid blocking the sun for the plants in the seating spaces.
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GARDEN FOUR

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