Lester Lim | CV & Architecture Portfolio IV

In coordination with HDB’s 60th anniversary SUTD’s Core III
Architecture studio is exploring the future of housing, asking
how we will live in the next hundred years.
The studio builds a vision of the future of housing based on an
understanding of the past, with one key historical fact driving
our investigation: Singapore has been and will be a highdensity
nation. The vision we create will be a next step in a
bigger history of over-coming the difficulties of high-density
urbanism to create thriving, vibrant, livable homes.
This studio also recognises the importance of urban context and
neighborhood to the success of housing. A master-planning
exercise has allowed us to imagine the neighborhood of the
future, in the East of Singapore. Our site is on a proposed
artificial polder island to the south of East Coast Park, within a
larger masterplan developed by the ONG&ONG Architect in
Residence Team led by Andrew Lee. Each studio is allocated
a sub-precinct, with its own masterplan and studio projects.
Our studio’s masterplan is set on largely unfettered land
with nature trails, allowing natural habitats to thrive. Main
circulation would be on an elevated pedestrian network.
Housing Narrative:
By 2070, the continuation of meritocracy continues to be the
fuel for a intensively competitve society. Coupled with the
conformist nature of asian society, there are expectations
that society places on every individual. Overwhelmed
by these social expectations, they might reclude back to
their homes as a protective mechanism against society.
This project aims to be a rehabilitative tool that passively
assimilates the individual back into society through food
production. Food is a basic neccessity that one needs to
survive and is also a common social acitivty. It is in a way
something that brings people together. The architecture
hopes that through these activities, confidence towards
social activity is formed by becoming a valued member of
society through interdependence of resources.