Gardens by the Bay, Singapore: intelligent building through design integration and optimisation

The Gardens by the Bay is part of a major citywide initiative by the National Parks Board of Singapore (NParks) in their plan to move from being a ‘garden city’ to a ‘city in a garden’. The project is made up of three significant new urban gardens around the Marina Bay area, the first of which, Marina Bay South, is the largest. Bay South comprises a landscaped garden and water system covering an area of 52 ha built on partially reclaimed ground in the estuary mouth of the Singapore River on a site that includes two significant rainwater run-off channels that link the land to the south with the bay (Figure 15.1).