Image from Finbarr Fallon, Subterranean Singapore 2065 (Architectural Film Project)
XX: You have raised the possibility of infinite control and connections, and it will demand a different way of visualising our master plan. Our Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) would have to come up with a whole new set of sectional notation system and color codes! Do you think our current visualisation of land use and land ownership, with routine extrusions and setbacks, are limiting our imagination of architecture in the city?
FINBARR: Yes, it would be interesting to imagine a completely three-dimensional master plan that is abstracted from the ground plane with interspersed layers of land use and ownership. The traditional top-down way of demarcating space and envelope regulations definitely limit architectural design on an urban scale. It is fascinating to think that underground space could act as a tabula rasa for architectural interventions that are relatively autonomous to ground plane.
Interviewee: Finbarr Fallon
Archifest, Oct. 2 2017