40 PROJECT REPORT: TALL BUILDINGS
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BIG’s aspirations were centred around making terraces and communal spaces not only green, but also highly usable
new proposal from local firm ADDP Architects’ in the city for example show a pair of 30 storey towers, sporting a large atrium at high level, and copious planting visible from outside. However, Yang says that BIG’s aspirations were centred around making terraces and communal spaces not only green, but also highly usable. “Sky terraces sometimes end up as empty spaces, not really utilised in a very active way. We want to contribute not only to the aesthetic of the city but also to its social and ecological diversity.”
This led them to seize the opportunity to “transform the use of these spaces in a way that is really impactful and that reveals their fuller potential to a larger public.” It is the project team’s aspiration (shared by the client), that the building will be open to the public, to enable them to experience an unusual new and meaningful green space.
Competition & design process The developer behind the project is CapitaLand, a Singapore-based real estate giant worth around $5bn and employing over 12 thousand people across Asia. However despite their size, Yang reports that the clients were very accommodating in
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terms of exploring BIG’s ideas for the project, while having a “very specific brief.” He tells ADF: “Singaporeans are very detail oriented and pragmatic; it was probably one of the best briefs I have ever read.” The international design competition took place in 2015, with practices including Heatherwick and MVRDV in the running. The project’s construction has been hampered by covid, which impacted heavily on supply chains, but the team reckons it will be completed by the end of 2021. During the competition, the practice divided the work equally between BIG and CRA, and “collaborated fully,” says Yang, which continued into the detailed design stages, “although over time we also naturally focused on our respective strengths.” Ratti was central to the “digital masterplanning of the user experience,” including how users can interface with the building remotely, such as using an app for access control. The two practices, and client, had “regular design meetings, virtually as well as in person, to ensure things are on track.”
The architects’ proposal was for a steel- concrete composite tower with a single concrete core, containing serviced apartments at lower levels, a central atrium,
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