Claiming Ground is an exploration of the architectures of cultivation in Housing and Development Board (HDB) landscapes, of present and future. The project learns from the infrastructures of current community garden practices, with a special focus on the ground as a lively fabric that shapes future urban form. In Singapore, cultivation has been demolished, moved to the edges of the city, or relegated to small pockets. The ground is often cultivated as ‘open’ or as a ‘void’. Claiming Ground is hence crucial in claiming the ground anew, and as a space that emerges from community practices. The architect has a role to play in supporting gardeners, as design of both future buildings and landscape often ignores existing cultivation practices as having form-giving power. The project is demonstrated through a close reading of one HDB estate, namely Ang Mo Kio, as this estate has high building density and a large percentage of elderly population, many of whom are gardeners. These characteristics mirror Singapore in general, and other urban places in South East Asia with an aging population. Overall, the project speaks to a desire of many people, not just the elderly, to cultivate their own food and tend a garden in the actual ground.