Salad Dressing

Salad Dressing Landscape Architecture The new relationship between plants and humans in an urban condition. By Chang Huai Yan ( Principal / Chief Gardener )

I will focus on what I see as three main components of this new relationship: the habitat , the pollinator and the plant. The city state of singapore is a unique urban habitat and interesting ground for exploring this new relationship with plants. As human we can assure plants through maintaining a constantly evolving relationship with then, acting as the prime pollinators within this urban condit

ion. Plants that have been domestically evolving in this condition are a product of human intervention. As landscape architect we have a key role in the continued development of their process. By using examples from my company as well as other projects done in Singapore. I will explore the practice of vertical green surface, roof top topography, bio swale , as well as showing the concept of plants as fashion , architecture and art commodity.

31/10/2025

Inspired by Singapore’s half-century effort to green the city, our work reflects a paradox: can a City in Nature truly buy back what it has lost? To restore what urban growth erased, the nation imports fragments of nature from elsewhere. Greening thus becomes both a deliberate design and an instinctive longing to reconnect with nature.

Within a 9x9 m plot, 90 native species of Singapore, imported from Malaysia encircle a giant topiary lucky cat-its paw harvesting sunlight, its coins flickering with numbers generated by weather - humidity, CO2, air pollution, temperature. This kitsch totem of fortune exposes our primal hunger for chance; yet the numbers echo as if they are prayer from plants given voice.

Around the square forest, vines twist like serpents, branches fork like antlers, a “prosthetic of rewilding” coaxing domestication toward wilderness. In time, the tutelage will be devoured by the forest, leaving only a grin-and an endless algorithm of numbers spun by sun and weather.

Singapore Biennale 2025 : Pure Intention
31st October 2025 - 29th March 2026
Former Raffles Girls School

Thank you to .house



Inspired by Singapore’s half-century effort to green the city, our work reflects a paradox: can a City in Nature truly b...
31/10/2025

Inspired by Singapore’s half-century effort to green the city, our work reflects a paradox: can a City in Nature truly buy back what it has lost? To restore what urban growth erased, the nation imports fragments of nature from elsewhere. Greening thus becomes both a deliberate design and an instinctive longing to reconnect with nature.
Within a 9x9 m plot, 90 native species of Singapore, imported from Malaysia encircle a giant topiary lucky cat-its paw harvesting sunlight, its coins flickering with numbers generated by weather - humidity, CO2, air pollution, temperature. This kitsch totem of fortune exposes our primal hunger for chance; yet the numbers echo as if they are prayer from plants given voice.
Around the square forest, vines twist like serpents, branches fork like antlers, a “prosthetic of rewilding” coaxing domestication toward wilderness. In time, the tutelage will be devoured by the forest, leaving only a grin-and an endless algorithm of numbers spun by sun and weather.
Singapore Biennale 2025 : Pure Intention
31st October 2025 - 29th March 2026
Former Raffles Girls School

Thank you to@sgbiennale .house



Inspired by Singapore’s half-century effort to green the city, our work reflects a paradox: can a City in Nature truly b...
31/10/2025

Inspired by Singapore’s half-century effort to green the city, our work reflects a paradox: can a City in Nature truly buy back what it has lost? To restore what urban growth erased, the nation imports fragments of nature from elsewhere. Greening thus becomes both a deliberate design and an instinctive longing to reconnect with nature.

Within a 9×9 m plot, 90 native species of Singapore, imported from Malaysia encircle a giant topiary lucky cat—its paw harvesting sunlight, its coins flickering with numbers generated by weather - humidity, CO2, air pollution, temperature. This kitsch totem of fortune exposes our primal hunger for chance; yet the numbers echo as if they are prayer from plants given voice.

Around the square forest, vines twist like serpents, branches fork like antlers, a “prosthetic of rewilding” coaxing domestication toward wilderness. In time, the tutelage will be devoured by the forest, leaving only a grin—and an endless algorithm of numbers spun by sun and weather.

Singapore Biennale 2025 : Pure Intention
31st October 2025 - 29th March 2026
Former Raffles Girls School

Thank you to .house

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Once known as the Chinese and Japanese Gardens, the two islands in Jurong, Singapore, are being rewilded by us, where fo...
18/10/2025

Once known as the Chinese and Japanese Gardens, the two islands in Jurong, Singapore, are being rewilded by us, where form gives way to philosophy, and ornament returns to ecology.

The renewal seeks to move beyond cultural clichés, revealing instead the quiet beauty and intertwined spirit of nature and thoughts that define both traditions.

Though the moon shines all over the worldLeaving no corner in darkness,Only those who gaze upon the moon Appreciate its ...
10/10/2025

Though the moon shines all over the world
Leaving no corner in darkness,
Only those who gaze upon the moon Appreciate its serene light.

— Honen Shonin (1133-1212)

Lighting by
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This Gorge design at Jurong Lake Gardens is created as a refugia for tropical creepers and epiphytes. Epiphytes and cree...
03/10/2025

This Gorge design at Jurong Lake Gardens is created as a refugia for tropical creepers and epiphytes. Epiphytes and creepers store water in the forest canopy, regulating its release to the ground and preventing rapid runoff and evaporation. They capture rain and occult precipitation, particularly in rainforests, affecting our hygric climate.

08/08/2025

“ Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind’s capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship.” Dominion, Matthew Scully.

As our population grows, more and more natural habitats are being destroyed. Human and animal conflict requires a change in our bioethics to resolve.

“Plants are great travelers, and they travel in the most surprising ways.”— Michael Pollan, The Botany of DesireOur tast...
18/04/2025

“Plants are great travelers, and they travel in the most surprising ways.”
— Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire

Our taste buds have triggered the mass migration of some of our favorite edible plants and animals.

“In Pliny’s observations I discovered that man, far from being central in this life, lived in a parlous world beyond his...
07/02/2025

“In Pliny’s observations I discovered that man, far from being central in this life, lived in a parlous world beyond his knowledge, . . . a world in which man is lost & less but lost & less amidst the marvellous, the extraordinary, the gorgeously inexplicable wonder of a universe only limited by one’s own imagining of it.”
— Richard Flanagan, Gould’s Book of Fish

“Examining human-animal relationships in the postcolonial context reveals that magical realism embodies and represents an idea of feral animality.”

“THE UNDULATING AQUATIC PLANTS AND THE GRASS THAT BORE LONG PLUMES, THE CLOUDS TRAVEL THROUGH THE REFLECTION.THE ABSENCE...
20/12/2024

“THE UNDULATING AQUATIC PLANTS AND THE GRASS THAT BORE LONG PLUMES, THE CLOUDS TRAVEL THROUGH THE REFLECTION.
THE ABSENCE OF VISIBLE EARTH.”
-— ANAÏS NIN
𓆼 Night Waterlily
𓆸 Day Waterlily
𓆷 Pool of Lotus

Photos by at Jurong Lake Gardens

Jurong Japanese Garden’s Water Lily GalleryA series of water lily ponds was carefully curated by us. Each aquatic space ...
11/10/2024

Jurong Japanese Garden’s Water Lily Gallery

A series of water lily ponds was carefully curated by us. Each aquatic space unveils the hidden character of various water lilies and their relatives. Small niches were created to embrace the Nymphaea, while puddles were crafted to feature nocturnal-blooming water lilies. Wanderers are invited to meander through sunken gallery boardwalks that entwine the fluid Arcadia, each garlanded with delicate ecotone plants.

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