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 2017 Gold badge with purple flowers and green leaves.

LIAS Awards of Excellence 2021
Best of Category – Maintenance (Public & Urban Spaces)

Design for the 2021 Las Awards of Excellence featuring a dark blue circle with gold border, surrounded by decorative blue, gold, and gray leaves and small white flowers, with the event name in gold text.

Enabling Village is an inclusive rehabilitation and community development that provides sensitively designed spaces for people of all abilities, while extending a welcoming landscape to the surrounding neighbourhood. 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.

Beyond its LIAS recognition, Enabling Village has also received numerous awards and accolades for its inclusive design, social impact, and contribution to the built environment.

Cabana View

A lush, green tropical garden with dense foliage, trees, and a small pond. In the background, there is a modern building with metal railings and wooden elements, partially obscured by the vegetation.

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

A lush green urban garden with various plants and trees, with a modern building in the background under a clear blue sky.

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

Urban outdoor scene with lush green plants, trees, and a small pond, with modern buildings in the background.

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.

A lush city garden with tall trees, green plants, and a small body of water reflecting the sky and surrounding greenery.
A garden pathway covered with pink flower petals, surrounded by green plants and trees, with a building in the background.

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

Urban scene with tall high-rise buildings and lush greenery surrounding a small river or pond, with reflections of the buildings visible in the water.

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.

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