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STACKED GARDEN BOUTIQUE OFFICES
2015 unbuilt
Image credit: Christian Erroi
Stories: 50
Height: 290 m / 951 ft
Gross Floor Area: 10,415 m2 / 112,106 ft2
Plot Area: 686 m2 / 6,734 ft2
Location: Singapore
Green Plot Ratio: 620%
Community Plot Ratio: 460%
Civic Generosity Index: (4 thumbs up)
Self-Sufficiency Index:
Energy: 80%; Food: 0%; Water: 60%
Ecosystem Contribution Index:
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Maximizing its small site area and building-height limit, this Singapore tropical high-rise prototype is conceived as a stack of garden boutique offices. Its work spaces are expressed as seven glass volumes and interspersed ‘Sky Lobbies’ and ‘Sky Terraces’. Each stack comprises one or two double-volume duplex office suites surrounded continuously on three sides with lush gardens that can be adapted to include a variety of landscape features, informal break out areas, and formal meeting/event spaces that support a creative working environment. An exoskeletal structural approach results in column-free interiors and integrates environmental filters into the facade in the form of a full-height trellis and louvers supporting creepers. The tower harvests renewable energy through photovoltaic panels and the use of heat-assisted stack turbines.
• 50-story commercial tower comprised of 14 boutique duplex offices
• ‘Sky Lobbies’ and ‘Sky Terraces’ layered over 8 ‘Multiple Ground Levels’ create a human-scaled ‘Domesticated Megastructure’
• ‘Sky Gardens’ provide generous social interaction areas designed as formal and informal indoor-outdoor ‘Tropical Community Spaces’, creating a ‘High-Density, High-Amenity’ urban environment
• Every floor is designed as a garden shelf spanning the service core and the tower’s exoskeletal structure, which is integrated with ‘Screens of Green’ that serve as environmental filters
• Two shafts within the service core utilize the hot stack effect in conjunction with heat exchange systems to drive wind turbines located at the roof
• The tower is clad with photovoltaic panels on its west-facing wall and angled roof
