Campus Green

Overview

SMU is the only City Campus in Singapore and among very few in the world. It is in the heart of Singapore’s civic district. It provides a natural focal point and central gathering space for students, faculty as well as the public. 

There is a need to enliven the Campus through creative design and implementation of environmental features and activity-generating facilities to transform the SMU City Campus into a modern bustling central space for communal activity. And thus enhancement of Campus Green project through innovation, to create new spaces for SMU’s evolving teaching, learning & CCA needs took place with following goals and objectives:

  • Activate and create buzz on Campus Green using new design to promote and facilitate more outdoor activities for SMU community and public
  • Transform existing spaces into new trends of Teaching and Learning
  • Energize fitness and health spaces

The project was initially planned to be completed in 34 months. But after careful review of the functions of the facilities and through continuous effort on revising construction planning, the project is shortened to 20 months. This 20 months construction period is again divided in three phases to minimize impact on existing users who are using the facilities. After the project completed there will be addition in capacity of various facilities.

Campus Green Architecture, Design and Green Features

Campus Green

The layout and design of Campus Green will be enhanced to realise it's potential as the truly pulsating heartbeat of SMU. While preserving the existing view corridor between the National Museum and the Singapore Art Museum, activity-generating areas and infrastructure that support new lifestyle expectations, informal interaction and collaboration, as well as artistic expressions will be injected to Campus Green, while maintaining natural openness and part ambience.

Three key facilities - "The Curve" CCA area, an amphitheatre, and a fitness centre - to be introduced on Campus Green, will be primary activators that change the ground, through the day and night. Urban design features will make the SMU Campus Green active, comfortable and accessible. The development will further integrate SMU into the city and enable the University to further engage our various stakeholder groups in the larger community.

New Fitness Centre

The fitness centre will be enlarged and enhanced to meet the lifestyle habits of the millennial student, and to provide an experiential learning space to support SMU's sports curriculum. Stretching from the SMU Concourse in the basement to the Campus Green on the ground level, the Fitness Centre looks out to the heritage [correct?] Yes. Bodhi Tree and The Curve - enclosed yet feeling much like an 'outdoor' space. The Fitness Centre facade has also designed to support SMU's Greenmark Platinum status.

Creative Learning Spaces

Additional learning and teaching spaces will be created to alleviate the current space crunch and will support SMU's vision to provide transformative education for a new generation of graduates. Flexible event spaces, seminar rooms, and dedicated study areas for SMU students will inject a flow of life, ideas and knowledge into the SMU Concourse area below ground-level. These learning spaces are where new ideas are created and shared between students and faculty, and where critical thinking, collaboration and learning can take place.

Basement Concourse

SMU's basement Concourse provide a covered link to all facilities and buildings within the SMU campus in the city. Here, the introduction of a three-level fitness centre allows for the creation of new and vibrant nodal points. The design allows for the yoga, Pilates and Gymnasium (fitness centre) to be used even on weekends and will welcome more life and traffic flow in to the Concourse.

Milestones

Media Presentation (15 May 2015)

Tender Award Ceremony (21 July 2015)

Construction Stage

Amphitheater & CCA

Gymnassium and Fitness Center

Teaching & Learning at Phase 1

Teaching & Learning at Phase 3

Post Completion