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Eco-Friendly Singaporean Architecture - Beach Road Complex (GALLERY)
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The prestigious architecture firm Foster and Partners have won an international competition to design a highly sustainable mixed use complex for Beach Road in Singapore. Occupying an entire city block, they will create a 150,000 square meter ecologically-friendly quarter in downtown Singapore with commercial, residential, retail, hotels, and a ‘green’ link to a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station.
Inhabitat notes that, “All facades will be fitted with solar cells and, to help control solar gain, direct sunlight will be filtered through ribbon-like canopies rising from the base of the entire complex to the exposed east and west elevations of the towers.”
The slanted facades’ design will allow them to corral the wind and direct it downwards for natural cooling.
This design is too complex for my scarce knowledge of architecture but I can certainly admire its majestic beauty.
The canopies will form vertical louvers at the elevations and provide more renewable on-site energy with integrated thin-film solar arrays. Vertical green spaces and extensive sky gardens are also important components of the towers, further greening the whole structure with natural vegetation and ambient temperature moderation
While it looks intensely complex, the design takes advantage of simple green building principles like passive solar, natural ventilation and natural cooling. Foster + Partners’ dynamic design will function in sync with the surrounding climate, and just might be the perfect merger of elevated architecture and grounded green build thinking.
(inhabitat)
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