New mixed-use district,
Beach Road
Architects: Foster + Partners
International Architecture Competition win
14 Sep 2007
image credit Foster + Partners
”Foster + Partners have won an international competition to design
a highly sustainable mixed use scheme for Beach Road in Singapore. Occupying
an entire city block between the Marina Center and the Civic District,
the scheme will create a 150,000 square meter eco-quarter in downtown
Singapore that continues the Singaporean ideal of the ‘city in a
garden’ with its lush planting and sky gardens. A generous canopy
protects the public realm at ground level, buffering the spaces beneath
from the extremes of the tropical climate. Above the canopy rises a vertical
city of clustered Developments.
image credit Foster + Partners
The scheme incorporates commercial, residential, retail and two high end
hotels, as well as a direct ‘green’ link to an MRT station.
Offering a light and comfortable environment, Beach Road will provide
an exemplar sustainable quarter for Singapore. The design has the potential
to achieve the Green Mark Platinum Rating.
The canopy is articulated by ribbon-forms that flex above the primary
circulation routes and public spaces and dip near the edges - reflecting
the changes of use beneath it. The ribbons rise up the exposed east and
west elevations of the Developments where they form a series of vertical
louvres. These filter the sun and provide a framework for the planting
which will transform the Developments into a series of vertically linked
green spaces. The buildings’ forms and slanted facades are oriented
to catch the prevailing winds and direct air flow down to cool the ground
level spaces.”
image credit Foster + Partners
Beach Road Singapore : Info from Foster + Partners 2007
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