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TROPICAL URBAN BUSINESS PARK
2014 unbuilt
Stories:
Office Tower: 16; Residential Tower: 24
Green Plot Ratio: 280%
Community Plot Ratio: 165%
Civic Generosity Index: (5 thumbs up)
Self-Sufficiency Index:
Energy: 0%; Food: 0%; Water: 20%
Ecosystem Contribution Index:
(2 thumbs up)
Located within the land-scarce and highly built-up island of Penang, Malaysia, the Tropical Urban Business Park is an extremely high-density, mixed-use development that differentiates itself through its vertical greenery and public spaces. A large ‘Sky Park’ shelters a mix of apartments, offices, recreation areas, and shopping malls. Every component is visually and socially interconnected, so that the entire mini-city complex possesses a neighborhood-style vibrancy. The ‘Sky Park’ is deliberately placed above the cluster of towers that support it. Designed with an urban scale, it can be used for civic events, not just as a recreation facility for residents. A second ‘Sky Park’ weaves between the towers on the roof of the podium and canyon-like spaces that feature waterfalls and terraced gardens link to the levels below.
• A ‘City Within a City’ development, utilizing ‘Multiple Ground Levels’ to support and shelter three apartment blocks, one office tower, and a site-wide podium
• Apartments in the ‘Breezeway Towers’ are cooled by the airflow rising as thermal displacement from the ground level through four ‘Vertical Breezeways’
• Each apartment is ‘One Unit Thick’ to facilitate cross-ventilation and natural daylighting
• Shopping, dining, and entertainment facilities are integrated within the ‘Tropical Community Spaces’ of the podium, contributing to a ‘High-Density, High-Amenity’ urban environment
• Features two large ‘Sky Parks’ (on tower roof and podium roof), numerous ‘Sky Gardens’, and facades clad with ‘Screens of Green’
