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Skyline Issue 12

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IN PICTURES / IDEAS COMPETITION

Runway for your imagination

Transform the Paya Lebar Airbase and its surroundings into a sustainable and liveable town in future – now you can play a part in a new ideas competition.

The Paya Lebar Airbase reflects Singapore’s civil and military aviation history, being Singapore’s second international airport from 1955 to 1981 and having served as the headquarters for the Singapore Airlines from 1972 to the 1980s.

Described as the finest airport in Asia operationally then, it reflected Singapore’s post-war rapid development and modernisation efforts. Key features that have remained today are its 3.8 km runway and its former airport buildings including the terminal building, control tower and hangars. Currently used as a military airbase, the airbase will be relocated from the 2030s onwards.

This opens up new possibilities in transforming the airbase and the surrounding industrial area progressively into a liveable and sustainable new town for the future, building upon its unique identity as a former airport and airbase.

Ideas competition

A new ideas competition, “Runway for your Imagination”, by URA in partnership with the Singapore Institute of Architects and the Singapore Institute of Planners, invites professionals, tertiary students and the community to envision the future of the area together. The competition is seeking submissions for one of the following three aspects:

  • Conceptual Master Plan to transform the airbase and the surrounding industrial area into a highly liveable and sustainable town;
  • Ideas to rejuvenate the former airport building cluster; or
  • Ideas to transform part of the runway as community spaces.

Proposals should also consider ideas on how to retain and celebrate the area’s rich aviation heritage, and how people want to live, work and play in future neighbourhoods.

Paya Lebar Air Base

Draft Master Plan 2019: initial ideas

Prior to the ideas competition, the public had a chance to contribute their initial views and ideas for the future of the Paya Lebar Airbase area during the Draft Master Plan 2019 Review in March 2019.

A Quick Urban Analysis Kit (QUA-Kit) was developed by the Chair of Information Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) to enable the public to design any given urban area by adding and moving objects from a given palette. URA worked with the Institute to customise the web-based tool further to enable the public to easily design and add features over the runway area such as housing, play fields, planting areas etc. The tool was available at the physical exhibition and online. The tool was also used by 120 pre-tertiary students at URA’s annual Challenge for the Urban and Built Environment workshop in November 2019 in generating future possibilities and ideas for Paya Lebar Airbase as the study site.

The “Runway for your Imagination” ideas competition is open from 31 Jan to 27 March 2020 to all members of the public including professionals (open category) and tertiary students (tertiary category).

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