Enabling Village
Client: SG Enable Ltd
Architect: WOHA Architects
Landscape Architect/Designer: Salad Dressing
Year: 2015
LIAS Awards of Excellence 2017
Best of Category – Implementation (Non-Residential)
LIAS Awards of Excellence 2021
Best of Category – Maintenance (Public & Urban Spaces)
Enabling Village is a rehabilitation project which not only created sensitively curated space for people with special needs but also an inviting landscape for the neighbouring residents. The landscape design is the key factor attributing to its successful transformation as a repurposing project of existing buildings. It is a highly encouraging attempt in the design of a naturalistic and ecological landscape with low maintenance.
Landscaping and water gardens feature a wide variety of plants that complement conserved trees, attract biodiversity and support ecosystems through a self-sustaining pond system which flows throughout the garden, continuously interacts with the elements - wind, soil and water. The encouragement of biodiversity is complemented with conservation that supports and attracts ecosystems past & present, promoting a promise of adaptation and changes throughout Enabling Village’s growth.
Cabana View
The exuberant foliage welcomes and shades, adding the ambience of calm, quiet within a space for informal meetings and interactions. This inclusiveness creates a space that enables and values everyone to bring people closer to nature within a biophilic environment.
Village Nest
Enabling Village’s urban oasis situates itself in the heart of Lengkok Bahru providing an inclusivity of flora & fauna interactions with its community spaces. This interactions allow for a special focus which differs everyday. To each their own unique experience of interpretation. Fauna that regularly seen in Enabling Village are hornbills, monitor lizards, otters, and many more.
Ability Hub Verandah Village
Landscaping and water gardens feature a wide variety of plants that complement conserved trees, attract biodiversity and support ecosystems; whilst verandahs extend out of passages as outdoor meeting spaces that bring nature closer to people.
Enabling Village adapts and grows with Singapore’s seasons, sustaining itself through phases of monsoon and drought. The seasonal bloom of Tabebuia Rosea, a local counterpart to the cherry blossom tree, brings a petal fall reminiscent of sakura season.
Village Green
The encouragement of biodiversity is complemented with conservation that supports and attracts ecosystems past & present, promoting a promise of adaptation and change throughout Enabling Village’s growth. No one system is left alone which champions sustainability that promotes cohesiveness. A lesson of acceptance which educates and bonds within a phytoremediation pond to create a biophilic environment. This collaborative effort brings out the biophilic relationship between flora & fauna.
