Bukit Timah Rochor Green Corridor Totems

Type of Totem:

Civic Totem

Target Species:

Magpie Robin, Parakeet

Location:

Bukit Timah Rochor Canal, Singapore

Story:

In 2019 WOHA and Ramboll were engaged to design an elevated green corridor above the canal in the centre of busy Bukit Timah Road. As the theme of the park is combining infrastructure with nature and recreation, we thought it was a perfect place to create technologically enabled nature.

The project creates a nature and human linkway, and is designed to provide maximum native biodiversity, despite the hostile location of a busy 12 lane highway and huge storm drain.

Totems will be included along the walkway, providing hollow nesting places for species which are currently under-served by the well trimmed and maintained trees along the road. Combined with designed habitat in the planting, the corridor will support endangered species such as the magpie robin, the national butterfly, as well as parakeets and other birds which frequent the area.

The project is under development with the reconstruction of the canal, and will be completed with the infrastructure works.

Team:

Design: WOHA with : Richard Hassell, Choon Heok Sim, Terence Chew, Simeon Chua, Yuqi Liew

Ecology: bioSEA: Anuj Jain, Saloni Swaminathan

Landscape: Studio Ramboll: Chris Long, Bernd Shernau

Prototyping: Systmz: Sean Liew, Ng Joo Kok