Jurong Lake District, Singapore, SG

Singapore’s 2nd Central Business District, will be built around the future Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High-Speed Rail terminus and will provide over four million square meters of working, living, retail and leisure space and is designed for the flexible long-term evolution of the future economy.

Qualities of the plan are its high-density mixed-use programme which incorporates new waterways and a series of stacked horizontal landscape datum and connections that weave through the entire district to create a distinctive identity for Singapore and its vision as a ‘City in the Garden’ next to the beautiful Jurong Lake Gardens.

The urban typology maximizes vertical urban greenery within a vertical city concept and creates a streetscape network for active mobility, walkability and interactive public spaces. The integrated, sustainable urban systems maximize the streetscape by proposing to place all major transport (fringe car park hubs and drop-offs) and engineering below the city (common services tunnel), creating layers of optimized infrastructure and a car-lite district. Existing heritage buildings, landscapes and ecosystems are respected and repurposed in a powerful dialogue with the new development. The future buildings will meet BCA Green Mark Platinum and plug into the district infrastructure (district cooling, pneumatic waste) to reduce resource and manpower consumption.

With its strategic location, open environment and optimized programming, the area will become a new gateway to Singapore and will serve as the new hub for the nascent science and innovation corridor, setting a new benchmark in Singapore for integrated work, knowledge, leisure and living environments. The URA describes the masterplan a “model district of the future” for integrated, smart planning.

Lobbies and drop-off

Service organisation

Porous / interactive ground

Mixed-use ground floor

Network of interconnected landscapes

Jurong Lake District, Singapore, SG

Client

Urban Regeneration Authority (URA) Singapore 

Design Team 

KCAP Architects&Planners, Studio Woodroffe Papa, Arup, SAA, Lekker, Erve & Co and KEOTO AG

Programme

4 million m2 GFA of housing, commercial, MICE, retail, leisure, culture and community amenities; the 360 ha study area masterplan provides 100 ha of new parks, 70 ha of new waterbodies, 17 km of accessible waterfront, 15ha of public transit-only zone, 39 km of new cycling paths

Site area

360 ha study area masterplan and 160 ha detailed masterplan