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http://dx.doi.org/10.7738/JAH.2015.24.4.019

A Study on Diversification of Open Space and Formation of Neighborhood at the Singapore Public Housing in 1950s  

Woo, Don-Son (한국예술종합학교 건축과)
Tak, Chung Seok (한국예술종합학교)
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Journal of architectural history / v.24, no.4, 2015 , pp. 19-28 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study examines the Singapore public housing supplied by Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) in the 1950s. Focused on the Princess Elizabeth estate and Princess estate of Queenstown, this study surveys their construction backgrounds, site plans, unit plans, architectural designs and meanings. The Princess Elizabeth estate was the model estate for workmen's flats. This estate showed mixed blocks of flats arranged around a large quadrangled open space for children. The Princess estate was a neighborhood of Queenstown, Singapore's the first new town. At this Estate, there were some new architectural occurrences departing from the Tiong Bahru Estate. Those are the appearance of high-rise typology, and the increased specificity in the functions of open spaces. Thus the open space became to get hierarchy, and divided an estate to small neighborhood units. For the SIT, open space is synonymous with the improvement of urban environment. Through the purposeful creation of open space, the SIT intended to solve the problem of sanitation and to make a neighborhood unit which can be pleasant place for regional community.
Keywords
Singapore; Queenstown Princess Estate; Princess Elizabeth Estate; Public Housing; Neighborhood; Community; Assimilation; Transplantation; 1950s; Post-War; Open Space; Diversification; Playground; Parking Lot; Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT); Housing and Development Board (HDB);
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