Thought
We approach design as an ongoing exploration, always looking for better ways to solve real-world problems. Our insights and frameworks help our teams navigate the complexities of the built environment, with a focus on creating spaces that are resilient, sustainable, and endearing.
Design Playbook
By SAA Architects
Our design process is anchored in the principles outlined in this playbook. It underpins our approach to co-creating resilient, sustainable, and endearing spaces, providing a directional framework for integrated and holistic design innovations.
This playbook not only helps us understand and observe but also ideate and build our responses to diverse design challenges.
Insights
Insights / Urban
Smart Mobility: Redefining Seamless Transit
Digital innovations such as Artificial Intelligence and Biometrics present exciting opportunities to transform transit station landscapes and the entire passenger experience for a truly integrated and seamless transport network.
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Insights / urban
Can we design for urban equity?
We look at the vital role that transit-oriented developments (TODs) play in the creation of equitable cities, as seen through the lens of Singapore’s Northpoint City.
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Insights / urban
Empowering transfers to connect communities
From intuitive wayfinding to inclusive entrances, effective intermodal transfers are crucial in ensuring transportation equity. We explore ways to enhance connectivity in urban spaces, as observed through Singapore's rail stations.
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Insights / urban
Invisible design
As we consider the role of our non-visual senses — sound, touch, smell, and taste — in our built environment, architects are uncovering the surprising benefits that come with creating immersive urban sanctuaries.
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Insights / Urban
Small is Beautiful
Shaping cities at human scale helps people stay healthy and socially connected
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Insights / Healthcare
A Care Home Full of Heart and Soul
The redesign of St Joseph’s Home shows how architecture can improve care by taking an empathic approach
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Insights / Healthcare
Healing, Naturally, in a Green Sanctuary
With a healing forest garden, this cool campus for patients is set to blaze a trail in healthcare design.
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Insights / Urban
A Bridge for Joy and Discovery
Cool, connected and inclusive, a transit-oriented development in north Singapore is where young families want to live in.
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Insights / Environment
Facing Up to the Crisis of Our Time
Climate change is an existential threat for humanity that we must act on, with unity and urgency.
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