Coastal Corridor Adventure

Client: National Parks Board
Architect: AWP Architects
Landscape Architect/Designer: Stephen Caffyn Landscape Design
Main Contractor: Progressive Builders Pte Ltd
Year: 2021

LIAS Awards of Excellence 2021
Silver – Implementation (Public & Urban Spaces)

Elegant award logo with gold and dark blue color scheme, featuring decorative gold and silver leaves around the edges, says 'ELIAS AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE 2021'.

The start of Coastal Adventure Corridor features Rower's Bay Park, the first section of a 150 km Round Island Route (RIR), The Coastal Adventure Corridor stretches from Rower’s Bay at Lower Seletar Reservoir winding through the coasts of Punggol, Pasir Ris, Changi and East Coast Park. Serving as a great resting spot for cyclists, joggers and park users to enjoy the view of Lower Seletar Reservoir engulfed by marginal trees and shrubs species. It features a boardwalk that brings visitors closer to the water, a lookout pavilion, swales and a wetland.

  • Board Walk

Marsh

A vibrant outdoor scene with lush green trees and plants, a wooden fence over a waterway, and a bright blue sky with scattered clouds.

The Marsh serves as a connection to Lower Seletar Reservoir. Mangrove species are introduced to the landscape.

Wooden boardwalk winding through lush green foliage along a river under a blue sky with scattered clouds.
View of a stone staircase leading down to a park by a river, with trees and a metal railing overhead, and a partly cloudy sky.

The pavilion sits on the highest point of the bay area that oversees the whole Lower Seletar Reservoir on the left and Johore Strait on the right next to the iconic Yishun Dam.

Rower’s Bay Trellis Entrance

View of a shaded pathway under a green canopy in a park with trees, bushes, a signboard, and a parking lot in the distance.

A welcoming trellis engulfed by creepers, with various species that creates shade for the public coming from unsheltered environment, serving as a rest point from cyclists, joggers and park users alike. The trellis marked the completion of the park as it was the last instalment. The path out from trellis served as an exit for access during the whole project's development stage in which was also a challenge to quickly establish the climbers and creepers.

  • Stepping boulders are ergonomically embedded into the landscape as to create a linkway between the board walk and the pavilion, blending into the landscape design intent.

  • Stepping boulders are ergonomically embedded into the landscape as to create a linkway between the board walk and the pavilion, blending into the landscape design intent.

Gabion Wall

A park with green trees, bushes, and rocks, with a paved walkway and lampposts, under a partly cloudy sky.
Garden path with greenery, rocks, a metal wire fence, and climbing plants.

Plants are planted into the Gabion Wall to break the linearity of the rigid rock wall which features an unconventional method of horticultural approach. Part of ABC certification requires compliance to treat surface run-off for 40% of the total site area through design features. 

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