"Paya Lebar Airbase: the place to be… but we can’t" is an interactive website entailing history and personal encounters within the location, Paya Lebar Airbase (PLAB) in Singapore. As usual protocols for high-security military airbases would suggest, PLAB is blocked from the public eye apart from open house event coverages and images posted on the internet (which are mostly given security clearance). Through this interactive narrative, I experiment with how one can experience a place that one cannot enter or see.

This project pushes the boundaries of what we can find or document about disclosed locations. The entire website is developed and coded from scratch. Chapter 1 documents some of the histories of PLAB, chapter 2 is an imagining of the experience of the location as I narrate my personal experiences within the base, and lastly, chapter 3 is an interactive activity where I invite you to plan the future of PLAB.

(Warning: this website is not optimised for mobile and tablet)