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Garden Curtain Wall
Garden Curtain Wall
Singapore
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Garden Curtain Wall
Singapore
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2022
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
The 6-story corner office building is located at the intersection of South Bridge Road and Hong Kong Street, a strip full of historical shophouses in Singapore. The project interrogates and exploits the limit of envelope control in urban sites to re-examine the ubiquitous glass curtain wall, commonly associated with offices.
Eschewing the flatness, we seek the thickness of the building envelope. A golden expanded mesh shielded this 6-story glass block and the interspersed garden strips along its periphery. These veiled gardens mediate the elements and the city with the office interior. The thin veil that maintains the street envelope is strategically punctured with openings that frame the activities within the series of staggered work pods of varying configurations.
These pods are extensions of an otherwise column-free, open-plan space within the inner glass volume. The service and circulation core line the side of the abutting party wall. The program that could be accommodated within these pods ranges from intimate discussion pods to brainstorming rooms to small amphitheatre lofts. The roofs of these attached pods become garden terraces for the floor above.
While developing the detail, to create durability, the expanded metal mesh was ribbed to stiffen the panels, and to reduce bracing frames. The sizes of the metal mesh ribs are ranging from 75mm to 600mm. The mesh ribs will then be connected to a gold-finished aluminium frame to form the panel module in which together they form the shimmering golden façade layer of the building that houses pockets and green spaces within.
We envision this could be the new face of work. A face that will engage its urban context and nature.
Eschewing the flatness, we seek the thickness of the building envelope. A golden expanded mesh shielded this 6-story glass block and the interspersed garden strips along its periphery. These veiled gardens mediate the elements and the city with the office interior. The thin veil that maintains the street envelope is strategically punctured with openings that frame the activities within the series of staggered work pods of varying configurations.
These pods are extensions of an otherwise column-free, open-plan space within the inner glass volume. The service and circulation core line the side of the abutting party wall. The program that could be accommodated within these pods ranges from intimate discussion pods to brainstorming rooms to small amphitheatre lofts. The roofs of these attached pods become garden terraces for the floor above.
While developing the detail, to create durability, the expanded metal mesh was ribbed to stiffen the panels, and to reduce bracing frames. The sizes of the metal mesh ribs are ranging from 75mm to 600mm. The mesh ribs will then be connected to a gold-finished aluminium frame to form the panel module in which together they form the shimmering golden façade layer of the building that houses pockets and green spaces within.
We envision this could be the new face of work. A face that will engage its urban context and nature.
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