By Beverley Mitchell, Source: Inhabitat

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Spark Architects have unveiled a stunning proposal for reconnecting Singapore with its waterfront and street food heritage. The Solar Orchid project is a mobile, reconfigurable and sustainable floating hawker center that could pop up in a variety of locations and formats. Each street food vendor would operate from a self-contained, solar-powered, lightweight floating pod.
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Although The Solar Orchid project is currently only a concept proposal, Spark Architects believes the project would complement the government’s recent initiative to develop floating solar islands in Singapore’s reservoirs. The design incorporates a protective, solar power generating canopy and multiple, solar-powered, floating pods, each of which houses a street food vendor. The impetus behind the design was the firm’s observation that Singapore is losing its connection with its waterscape after decades of of urban development, industrialization and land n.

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