URA Challenge for the Urban and Built Environment (CUBE) 2025

12 FEB 2026

Between 24–28 Nov 2025, our Hwa Chong Geography students immersed themselves in the URA CUBE Workshop at the URA Centre and rose to the top with the Outstanding Award!

Congratulations:

  • Lin Rui, Avril (25A15), Team Leader

  • Teng Zhao En, Cheryl (25A15)

  • Pan Ziying (25S77)

  • Teo Jie Jun Jayden (25S6K), Assistant Team Leader 

  • Eion Chan Jen Sen (25S6K)

Organised by the Urban Redevelopment Authority, this five-day workshop challenged pre-university students to reimagine publicly accessible open spaces near their schools, balancing sustainability with real urban demands. 

Under a tight timeline and rigorous critique sessions with architects, planners and academics, the team conceptualised, designed and built a 3D model of their proposal, navigating complex trade-offs, spirited debates and real-world constraints along the way.

Inspired by the Colugo, their proposal envisioned naturalising the Bukit Timah Canal and shifting the vehicular traffic along Bukit Timah Road underground, allowing nature to be better integrated into daily lives of local residents and users of the space while reducing the urban heat island effect.

Their ability to interweave ecological sensitivity with bold urban redesign reflects the very best of Hwa Chong’s problem-solving spirit.