The project is an investigation into notions of ‘tropicality’ in the context of Singapore. Historically, concepts of nature, comfort, civil behaviour and progress have been shaped by depoliticised agendas grouped under the umbrella of ‘tropicality’. Framing ‘tropicality’ in terms of scarcity and affordances, the project ‘unmakes’ colonial vestiges of ‘tropical success’ that linger in our infrastructure and ‘remakes’ a landscape of affordances.

Spanning 4.2km, the project is a socio-ecological continuum linking a threatened forest to a recognised nature reserve. Social and physical constructs of scarcity are dissected, imagining new ways that lean towards productive and performative dwelling practices that synthesise nature and culture.

Large data on resource management inform the masterplan while local ways of construction and material performance shape details of aesthetics and structural logic. The technicality is balanced with an ethnographic approach to challenge normative domesticity through new housing schemes. At this scale, the affective and intimate experiences of infrastructure and resource prioritise tropical bodies in the investigation into post-tropicality.