Interactive urban design tool for the public

How can the public be involved in designing urban areas? The Urban Redevelopment Authority’s (URA) Skyline Issue features ETH's Quick Urban Analysis Kit (QUA-Kit),which enables the public to share ideas.

With the relocation of the Paya Lebar Airbase set for the 2030s, there are a myriad of possibilities for transforming the airbase and the surrounding industrial area into a sustainable new town for the future. During the Draft Master Plan Review held in March 2019, the Chair of Information Architecture at ETH Zurich developed a QUA-Kit that allowed the public to interactively design any given urban area.

The QUA-Kit can be used to design any given urban area through adding and moving objects from a predetermined selection of features such as housing. The tool was available for usage both online and at the exhibition held by the URA. Also, the QUA-Kit was used at the Challenge for the Urban and Built Environment (CUBE) workshop held in November 2019 where 120 pre-tertiary students gathered to generate possible design ideas for the Paya Lebar Airbase.

Read more about this on the external page URA’s Skyline Issue 12 : Runway for your imagination.