Ento

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Overall carpark design

ENTO

‘ENTO’ is derived from the word ‘Entomophagy’, defined as the human use of insects as food. With the brief to design for 2065, the idea behind ENTO was to tackle the potential culture dilution in the future, by preserving Hawker centres as they are an integral part of Singapore’s heritage. At the same time, it addresses issues such as running out of land space to farm animals, hence the future source of protein could be insects. ENTO is a hawker centre cum food research facility of 2065. The building is self-sustainable and operates as a closed-loop system, while tackling the global food shortage.

How the closed-loop system works is that the hawker centre gets food from the insect and aeroponics farming and the edible gardens. The food waste from the hawker centre and the surrounding buildings on site (as part of masterplan), will be decomposed through biogas machines thus, providing electricity and power for the building. As biogas produces “fertiliser tea” this fertiliser will then be used for aeroponics farming. With only minimal water required for aeroponics farming, water will be taken from the gabion wall rainwater harvester. Aside from providing vegetables for the hawker centre, they also act as feed for the insects.