This design project investigates the invisible processes and labours involved in Singapore’s food waste landscape. This project speculates a composting facility within an existing multi-story carpark, which is located adjacent to a bustling market area, where a considerable amount of food waste is generated daily.

 

The design of ‘play’ (as educational strategy, and architectural programme and structure) is emphasised as a key means of engaging children with an interest in waste composting practices. A series of netted play structures interweaves between the functions of composting (inside the multi- story carpark) and farming (on the roof), activating the public as a visible body invested in the present state of waste management, and working towards a more sustainably responsible Singaporean future of food and waste consumption practices.