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OASIA DOWNTOWN
2011-2015 built
Stories: 27
Height: 198m / 650 ft
Gross Floor Area: 19,416 m2 / 208,992 ft2
Plot Area: 2,311 m2 / 24,875 ft2
Location: Singapore
Green Plot Ratio: 1,110%
Community Plot Ratio: 300%
Civic Generosity Index: (5 thumbs up)
Self-Sufficiency Index:
Energy: 0%; Food: 0%; Water: 60%
Ecosystem Contribution Index:
(3 thumbs up)
Client: Far East SOHO Pte Ltd
Mechanical & Electrical Engineer:
Ranking & Hill (S) Pte Ltd
Civil & Structural Engineer:
KTP Consultants Pte Ltd
Quantity Surveyors: Rider Levett Bucknall
Landscape Consultant: Sitetectonix Pte Ltd
Image credit: Christian Erroi
A verdant tower of green in the heart of Singapore’s dense Central Business District (CBD), Oasia Downtown is a prototype of land-use intensification with a tropical approach. Instead of a fully-glazed and air-conditioned building, the tower contains three well-ventilated ‘Breezeway Atria’ surrounded by L-shaped blocks of hotel rooms and offices. These provide hotel guests and office workers with naturally cross-ventilated ‘Tropical Community Spaces’ and dynamic internal views, which frame, soften, and distance the surrounding dense urban fabric. Each elevated ground level is treated as an urban-scale verandah, sheltered by the one above. Landscaping is used extensively as an architectural surface treatment and forms a major part of the development’s material palette, creating an alternative image that is distinct from the surrounding curtain-walled towers of the CBD.
• A 27-story tower – containing homes, offices, and a hotel – is layered by four ‘Multiple Ground Levels’, which support three large ‘Sky Gardens’ and a ‘Sky Park’
• The apartments, offices, and hotel rooms overlook the ‘Breezeway Atria’ and ‘Tropical Community Spaces’ stacked within the tower
• Each apartment is ‘One Unit Thick’, in order to enable cross-ventilation, increase exposure to daylight, and provide a wider outlook
• The entire façade is wrapped with ‘Screens of Green’, which contribute to the remarkably high Green Plot Ratio
• A ‘Domesticated Megastructure’ has been scaled to complement the conserved low-rise historic architecture of the city precinct, and the abundance of greenery and communal space creates a ‘High-Density, High-Amenity’ urban environment
