Singapore demonstrates to have an inventive mind by recreating a common place: the bus stop. Image source: Shutterstock (#140628544)
What if the humble bus stop could be a place you actually looked forward to frequenting? That’s the question the Singaporean firm DP Architects aimed to answer. “We wanted to redesign a commonplace thing we take for granted,” says Seah Chee Huang, the firm’s director. DP Architects in collaboration with the Singaporean government, designed a bus stop in Jurong, a testing site for “smart” innovations, in line with the initiative, launched in 2014, to make Singapore a “Smart Nation”. The stop which features ample seating, a rack of books geared for all ages, bicycle parking, a swing, artwork by the local illustrator Lee Xin Li, and a rooftop garden, complete with a small tree alogn with inclusion of driverless vehicles, lights that dim or brighten in response to motion, and an automated system that senses when trash bins need emptying.
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