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This astounding rate of urban growth is equivalent to building a city with the population of London every seven weeks.


With every project, WOHA aims to create an environment matrix of interconnected and delightfully human- scaled spaces that foster community, enable the stewardship of nature, generate biophilic beauty, activate ecosystem services and build resilience. As a result, WOHA’s projects can be perceived less like buildings and more like living systems.


To achieve this, WOHA conceptualises the city as an organic and integrated three-dimensional matrix of networks and spaces as opposed to a rationalised two-dimensional grid of stand-alone buildings. WOHA interprets the modern tower—a building block of the city—as infrastructure, with a series of stacked public amenities that contribute to the overall built environment. Through layering, WOHA multiplies land, which is a scarce and precious resource in cities, into elevated ground levels that bring together different but complementary programmes in new ways to achieve high amenity and sociability despite the high density. These new ground levels are conceived as an infrastructure of life-bearing areas that are designed to support urban systems such as public/community space, landscape, solar canopies, sky farms, etc.


WOHA’s environment matrix integrates with nature in ways that give back to the city in terms of urban


greenery, ecosystems and biodiversity. These natural systems, in reciprocation, support humankind by performing ecosystem services such as stormwater management, heat island reduction, carbon sequestration and pollution mitigation. WOHA re-invokes Ebenezer Howard’s 20th nature-centric ideals, and translates it into a dense and vertical, yet social and sustainable 21st


-century garden city with -century


15 WOHA’s design of the Singapore Pavilion for the 2020 World Expo in Dubai: an immersive garden matrix


tropical Garden City Mega City. Within this hyper-dense urban context, places for nature (horizontally and vertically) are created at the same time as floor area so as to preserve nature in cities and to connect people with nature, which is essential for human well-being. WOHA’s biophilic architecture, with its constructed ecosystems and immersive landscapes, creates a striking tropical identity that visually and emotionally engages with people, offering them multiple oases for rest, contemplation and calm, while improving the quality of the urban environment and restoring biodiversity to the city.


Image courtesy of WOHA 74 FUTURARC


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