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Singapore, Remixed

By Denya··1 min read
AI-imagined sunny Singapore HDB courtyard with six apartments inspired by familiar films and games.

In Singapore, even a flying broom has laundry to dry. After the apocalypse, someone still wants you to return your tray.

I used AI to imagine local homes, food and household objects through Mario, Harry Potter, Barbie, Fallout, SpongeBob and Minecraft. Here are the six collections.

Super HDB World

AI concept inventory imagining Super Mario through Singapore: HDB corridors, a mosaic dragon playground, rubbish-chute warp pipe, ERP gate, durian shell and kaya-toast power-up.
Collect coins. Spend them at the next ERP gantry.

HDB School of Magic

AI concept inventory of magical Singapore household objects: an atlas of HDB corridors, a flying bamboo laundry broom, pandan mandrake, potion tingkat and a tissue packet with a shield guarding a seat.
A flying broom that doubles as a laundry pole.

HDB Dream Flat

AI concept of a pink Barbie-inspired Singapore housing playset: cutaway HDB flat, grille door, fixed-seat hawker table, market trolley, laundry poles, wet room, air conditioner and rice cooker.
Barbie’s Singapore flat comes with a rice cooker and somewhere to dry laundry.

Life After the Last MRT

AI concept of Fallout adapted to Singapore: an apartment shelter entrance, hovering tray-return robot, MRT gates, void-deck chess table, queue display and emergency biscuit tin.
The world has ended. Please return your tray.

Bikini Bottom Hawker Centre

AI concept of SpongeBob's underwater Singapore hawker centre: chilli-crab stall, shell-wheeled satay grill, conch queue dispenser, tentacle stools and coral sugarcane press.
Chilli crab, satay and sugarcane juice, under the sea.

Crafted in Singapore

AI concept of Singapore as Minecraft-style voxel collectibles: Joo Chiat shophouses, Jewel waterfall, Supertree, durian, otter, drain, satay grill and HDB-facade creeper.
Joo Chiat tiles on a pickaxe. An HDB block as a creeper.

Inspired by Rinat Seif.

A Minecraft creeper slides down a mosaic dragon playground in an old Singapore HDB courtyard, drawn in pencil and watercolour.
A familiar playground, in another world.
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