Welcome to the Singaporean underground subway, a representation of the power and ideals of the state.
Bag checks, surveilance cameras and announcements warning against "suspicious articles and personnels" demonstate that the state is always vigilant against terrorism and misbehaviour.
A maze of underpasses also exposes the capitalist state`s desire to channel commuters from transportation nodes directly to consumption areas, avoiding the hot, humid and wet weather aboveground.
This is the playground of the State. A highly controlled money making and political environment.

This project proposes a cunning scheme to turn control upside down.
It puts forth a false front, suggesting that it is indeed a benign money making, economical scheme, aimed to bait the unwary developer or perhaps even the state itself.
Then by means of fine architectural details, materials and composition, an architectural "framework of subversion" is fabricated, a cunning powerful layer beneath a sterile design.

What the developer thinks is a wondrous high end retail strip is also covertly a street peddler`s paradise.
What the state takes as an alternative scheme to promote local art uncannily becomes a skateboarder`s playground.

The scheme looks at ways to turn the environment of control upside down. Hence S.N.A.F.U..

SNAFU at Dhoby Ghaut, Singapore by Shane Tan in Singapore won the WA Award Cycle 2. Please find below the WA Award poster for this project.

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