Sensory Waterscape: Integrating Water in the Urban Context

Rochor Canal, Singapore

By allowing water to inspire and guide an architectural project and its programs, a more synchronised integration between water and the urban context can be generated. The regard for water as an element would allow users to experience and be conscious of importance of water. This thesis aims to explore the possibilities offered by the pliable nature of water and probe for the potential to improve the relationship with water in order to realize the “wedding between water and urban space.” Architectute becomes a mediation to augment and enrich environmental education in Singapore with the introduction of water’s vitality into the urban public spaces of everyday life in Singapore.