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Singapore Pavilion explores a multisensory pavilion "Rasa-Tabula-Singapura" in Venice
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The Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 is inviting guests to sit at the Table of Superdiversity, an alluring reimagining of city-making and nation-building through the universal act of dining, in honor of Singapore's 60th year of independence.The Pavilion, named RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA, is a multisensory experience that reinterprets the Latin concept of tabula rasa, or a blank slate. Here, the words RASA, TABULA, and SINGAPURAcome together to symbolize Singapore's unique identity, which has been molded by centuries of migration, trade, and reimagining. The Singapore Pavilion, organized by the Singapore University of Technology and Designand commissioned by the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singaporeand the DesignSingapore Council, is curated by a multidisciplinary team from SUTD, including Prof. Tai Lee Siang, Prof. Khoo Peng Beng, Prof. Dr. Erwin Viray, Dr. Jason Lim, Asst. Prof. Dr. Immanuel Koh, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sam Conrad Joyce.The Pavilion examines how architecture, policy, and participatory design connect in Singaporeans' daily lives via the curatorial lens of dining, one of the country's most cherished national hobbies. By interacting with the main components that influence Singapore's built environment, RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA provides guests with a "taste" of the country through a carefully chosen menu of architectural and urban planning projects. While "side dishes" highlight design, policy, and community-building innovations that contribute to Singapore's strength as a multicultural society, "main courses" highlight important developments and districts like Pinnacle@Duxton, a famous public housing development in Singapore that reflects Singapore's innovative approach to urban growth and transformation.Intelligens: Natural. Artificial. Collective, the topic of Biennale curator Carlo Ratti, is reflected and applied to Singapore's setting through the Pavilion's tablescape. The Pavilion aims to convey Singapore's superdiversity by demonstrating how the combination of local and global influences, complex data, and numerous flows of people, goods, ideas, and innovations collectively shape Singapore's distinct identity and the way we rethink the built environment. It does this by building on the Latin word "gens," which means "people," and the word "intelligence.""Illustrating Singapore’s superdiversity, we are highlighting seven ‘main courses’ at RASA-TABULA- SINGAPURA—each offering a taste of how Singapore plans for life at every scale. At Pinnacle@Duxton, we explored vertical living as a framework for superdiversity—where density, design, and innovation come together in the sky," said Prof. Khoo Peng Beng, Co-Curator for the Singapore Pavilion, head of the Architecture and Sustainable Design Pillar at SUTD and a recipient of the President’s Design Award."Moving from single developments to district-scale planning, projects like Tengah and Changi Airport demonstrate how Singapore applies the same design sensibility to shaping entire ecosystems of liveability and movement. These ideas continue through our research and teaching at SUTD, where planning for the future means designing for complexity." "It’s one expression of a city always planning ahead, always becoming,” said Prof. Khoo Peng Beng, Co-Curator for the Singapore Pavilion, head of the Architecture and Sustainable Design Pillar at SUTD and a recipient of the President’s Design Award, Peng Beng added.CapitaSpring, a 280-meter-tall tropical high-rise in the center of Singapore's Central Business District that is a prime illustration of the city's forward-thinking development, is another important example on the dining table. Singapore's Landscaping for Urban Spaces and High-Risesregulation, which mandates that developers replace ground-level greenery with vertical landscapes, is showcased in this biophilic spectacle. The tower's structure incorporates more than 80,000 plants, including a tall, four-story Green Oasis that is 100 meters above the ground and one of the highest in Singapore that is open to the public in business buildings.RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA makes this urban feast come to life with its interactive installations and lively dining-inspired setting, encouraging visitors to think about how shared perspectives on social, natural, and artificial elements can create spaces that represent common needs, values, and goals. The Pavilion transforms into a live platform where guests can learn how diversity, data, and design come together to create Singapore's changing urban landscape and the interwoven systems that support it."Through thoughtful urban planning and design, we create environments that inspire and support how we live, work, play, and connect. In a land-scarce city like Singapore, we need to balance density, diversity, and design," said Yap Lay Bee, Co-Commissioner of the Singapore Pavilion and Group Directorof URA."Planning policies, cultural values, environmental priorities, and community needs are considered and integrated to create and shape spaces that are inclusive, resilient and adaptable.RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA offers a sensory map of that approach, inviting visitors to experience the thoughtful processes that have shaped our nation’s transformation in the last 60 years." "It is not just a showcase of what we have built, but also a reflection of how we imagine—and continue to reimagine— our future,” Lay Bee added."As a nation by design, Singapore’s socio-economic needs, demographics, policies, and spatial negotiations have guided our urban planning. Such intelligence not only reflects our design-led development for the last 60 years, but will continue to chart the course for our future," said Dawn Lim, Co-Commissioner of the Singapore Pavilion and Executive Director of Dsg. "Centring on the concept of superdiversity, this year’s Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale showcases how the convergence of unique multicultural differences, collective histories, design and new technology offers opportunities for more inclusive, adaptive urban futures," Lim added.The 19th International Architecture Exhibition will take place from 10 May to 23 November 2025 at the Giardini, the Arsenale and various venues in Venice, Italy. Find out all exhibition news on WAC's Venice Architecture Biennale page. All images: Installation view of the Singapore Pavilion at La Biennale di Architettura di Venezia 2025. Photo © Giorgio Schirato Photography.> via Singapore Pavilion
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Singapore Pavilion explores a multisensory pavilion "Rasa-Tabula-Singapura" in Venice
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The Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 is inviting guests to sit at the Table of Superdiversity, an alluring reimagining of city-making and nation-building through the universal act of dining, in honor of Singapore's 60th year of independence.The Pavilion, named RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA, is a multisensory experience that reinterprets the Latin concept of tabula rasa, or a blank slate. Here, the words RASA, TABULA, and SINGAPURAcome together to symbolize Singapore's unique identity, which has been molded by centuries of migration, trade, and reimagining. The Singapore Pavilion, organized by the Singapore University of Technology and Designand commissioned by the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singaporeand the DesignSingapore Council, is curated by a multidisciplinary team from SUTD, including Prof. Tai Lee Siang, Prof. Khoo Peng Beng, Prof. Dr. Erwin Viray, Dr. Jason Lim, Asst. Prof. Dr. Immanuel Koh, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sam Conrad Joyce.The Pavilion examines how architecture, policy, and participatory design connect in Singaporeans' daily lives via the curatorial lens of dining, one of the country's most cherished national hobbies. By interacting with the main components that influence Singapore's built environment, RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA provides guests with a "taste" of the country through a carefully chosen menu of architectural and urban planning projects. While "side dishes" highlight design, policy, and community-building innovations that contribute to Singapore's strength as a multicultural society, "main courses" highlight important developments and districts like Pinnacle@Duxton, a famous public housing development in Singapore that reflects Singapore's innovative approach to urban growth and transformation.Intelligens: Natural. Artificial. Collective, the topic of Biennale curator Carlo Ratti, is reflected and applied to Singapore's setting through the Pavilion's tablescape. The Pavilion aims to convey Singapore's superdiversity by demonstrating how the combination of local and global influences, complex data, and numerous flows of people, goods, ideas, and innovations collectively shape Singapore's distinct identity and the way we rethink the built environment. It does this by building on the Latin word "gens," which means "people," and the word "intelligence.""Illustrating Singapore’s superdiversity, we are highlighting seven ‘main courses’ at RASA-TABULA- SINGAPURA—each offering a taste of how Singapore plans for life at every scale. At Pinnacle@Duxton, we explored vertical living as a framework for superdiversity—where density, design, and innovation come together in the sky," said Prof. Khoo Peng Beng, Co-Curator for the Singapore Pavilion, head of the Architecture and Sustainable Design Pillar at SUTD and a recipient of the President’s Design Award."Moving from single developments to district-scale planning, projects like Tengah and Changi Airport demonstrate how Singapore applies the same design sensibility to shaping entire ecosystems of liveability and movement. These ideas continue through our research and teaching at SUTD, where planning for the future means designing for complexity." "It’s one expression of a city always planning ahead, always becoming,” said Prof. Khoo Peng Beng, Co-Curator for the Singapore Pavilion, head of the Architecture and Sustainable Design Pillar at SUTD and a recipient of the President’s Design Award, Peng Beng added.CapitaSpring, a 280-meter-tall tropical high-rise in the center of Singapore's Central Business District that is a prime illustration of the city's forward-thinking development, is another important example on the dining table. Singapore's Landscaping for Urban Spaces and High-Risesregulation, which mandates that developers replace ground-level greenery with vertical landscapes, is showcased in this biophilic spectacle. The tower's structure incorporates more than 80,000 plants, including a tall, four-story Green Oasis that is 100 meters above the ground and one of the highest in Singapore that is open to the public in business buildings.RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA makes this urban feast come to life with its interactive installations and lively dining-inspired setting, encouraging visitors to think about how shared perspectives on social, natural, and artificial elements can create spaces that represent common needs, values, and goals. The Pavilion transforms into a live platform where guests can learn how diversity, data, and design come together to create Singapore's changing urban landscape and the interwoven systems that support it."Through thoughtful urban planning and design, we create environments that inspire and support how we live, work, play, and connect. In a land-scarce city like Singapore, we need to balance density, diversity, and design," said Yap Lay Bee, Co-Commissioner of the Singapore Pavilion and Group Directorof URA."Planning policies, cultural values, environmental priorities, and community needs are considered and integrated to create and shape spaces that are inclusive, resilient and adaptable.RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA offers a sensory map of that approach, inviting visitors to experience the thoughtful processes that have shaped our nation’s transformation in the last 60 years." "It is not just a showcase of what we have built, but also a reflection of how we imagine—and continue to reimagine— our future,” Lay Bee added."As a nation by design, Singapore’s socio-economic needs, demographics, policies, and spatial negotiations have guided our urban planning. Such intelligence not only reflects our design-led development for the last 60 years, but will continue to chart the course for our future," said Dawn Lim, Co-Commissioner of the Singapore Pavilion and Executive Director of Dsg. "Centring on the concept of superdiversity, this year’s Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale showcases how the convergence of unique multicultural differences, collective histories, design and new technology offers opportunities for more inclusive, adaptive urban futures," Lim added.The 19th International Architecture Exhibition will take place from 10 May to 23 November 2025 at the Giardini, the Arsenale and various venues in Venice, Italy. Find out all exhibition news on WAC's Venice Architecture Biennale page. All images: Installation view of the Singapore Pavilion at La Biennale di Architettura di Venezia 2025. Photo © Giorgio Schirato Photography.> via Singapore Pavilion
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