d+a | Issue 122 • 2021

/ FEATURE / 24 future-shaping conversations. “As visitors experience the pavilion through its welcoming spaces, digital exhibits and programmes, we hope that they will gain new perspectives on how nature and technology can be integrated into our urban spaces, and see the possibilities of how our cities can be designed to be sustainable, liveable and resilient,” says Ng. The main learning point Sim wants to impart through the Singapore Pavilion is how building designs can draw from and give back to nature. “The pavilion is an oasis in the desert, and oases do occur in these dry and harsh conditions – so we are not putting a foreign 05. Nature blends beautifully into the lines of the ground garden.