Saturday, 19 March 2011

Bottle Tree Park - A Community-based Design workshop by GUI

A day trip to Bottle Tree Park on a Saturday afternoon!

Bottle Tree Park is just a bus stop away from Khatib MRT Station. Do drop by when you are free! Anyway, 3 girls (giggly, lanky and zesty) were exploring the place as it was our first time there. We had a brief introduction by Mr Khoo Peng Beng (From Arc Studio), and also facilitated by Mr Lai Hock and Ms Jia Jia. After which, we were split into 2 groups for the workshop assignment - To analyze the site and propose a design for future development, yet at the same time cultivating an eco cycle too (in other words, to be self-sufficient).

 On our way to the site, we had to cross the stream! Oh well, that was for giggly's and zesty's adventurous group!
 A panoramic view of the site

 Floating platforms! Approx around.. 1.5m x 3m?

 This is where the water comes and goes!

 Demo waterwheel

 Cute planting, reminds me of us planting and watering the lemon grass. :)
Oh, take a look, doesn't it feel like the proposed trellis over the car with solar panels? Haha

 Greenhouse farming

Yum yum, tea break! Organic and kampong style food & pastries. 
A healthy habit of recycling too!

 We were then asked to pen down our first impression/ thoughts of the site. And we were introduced to SWOT analysis. Do you know what SWOT stands for? :P

 And we mediated, or say, imagine/ think about the site.

 Next up, MODEL-MAKING!

 
 



 Presentation to the crit panel!

 
 Yay, group photo!

 -Back scene- Look at how they maintain the area (meant for workshop/ events, hence not necessarily used very often, i assume)

 verminculture


 BOTTLE TREE park
 I shall let the following photos speak for itself :)








The day ended with some exchange of knowledge with the volunteers at the workshop, met some environmentalists, engineers, water specialist, even educators too.

19March2011
Gigglying off,
Giggly :)

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