FOUNDER´S MEMORIAL SINGAPORE

Cultural Architecture

TAB Taller de Arquitectura de Bogota | Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos

2019 - Marina Bay, Singapur

Architect Design Leader of the Competition Team , Coordination and Development

Architectural Competition Proposal / 13.700m2

Monomo /// http://tab.net.co/founders-memorial-singapore/

The project´s given location determines the need to create a singular building, able to attract the public, generate an effect of remembrance onto Singaporeans population and visitors, and therefore capable of highlighting the values of an entire nation. Based on those given requirements, our project focused on bringing the mountains onto the waterfront setting, uniques mountains from Singaporeans founders originals backgrounds, symbolizing that they came together to create a “New Horizon”, in this case reflecting pride and enjoyment for locals and visitors.

As a result, a New Horizon is developed in the less populated side of the bay, a landscapebuilding composition, composed by 8 hills with strong symbolic values: 5 of the hills represent the five values and ideals of the founders, an additional one symbolizes the national pledge, while the two remaining are conceived to celebrate the rites of entering and leaving.

The composition, based on the idea of an artificial topography defines the building within, while gets expanded onto the site, in order to shape the park and become a lookout of the bay and also of the memorial itself. At the same time, the inside defines through a coherent and linear narrative a path for visitors, allowing them to inhabit singular spaces - pavilions provided, which seek to celebrate the generation of a nation that was born against all odds. ©TAB