FCL SYMPOSIUM: ARCHITECTURE AS URBAN ECOSYSTEM
The Symposium was organised by the Future Cities Laboratory (a programme of the Singapore-ETH Centre), Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and hosted by the Singapore Urban Revelopment Authority.
Contemporary architecture and urban design practice in Singapore and beyond is increasingly exploring the integration of green spaces in buildings, producing new typologies for high-density contexts that include public space, extensive sky terraces, sky bridges, vertical parks, roof gardens, and other ‘green’ components. Combinations of all these, often applied to mixes of residential, civic and commercial programmes, conjoin at times to produce ‘vertical cities’, in which the building section becomes part of larger urban ecosystems such as parks, gardens and river networks. Density and sustainability here are not contradictory but rather mutually dependent and synergistic.