SkyVille @ Dawson, Singapore is a public housing project of 960 homes completed in 2015 for the Housing & Development Board of Singapore. The project demonstrates that high density can be high amenity. Community living, variety and sustainability are the themes of SkyVille @ Dawson.
Building communities is a core aspiration for the public housing program in Singapore but the traditional form of modern high-rises, with a central core of compressed circulation space, is not conducive for social interaction. This project takes advantage of Singapore’s gentle climate to make spaces within and between high-rise towers for community interaction.
The central innovation is the public, external, shared spaces interwoven through the cluster of towers from the ground to the roof. Each home is part of a Sky Village comprising 80 homes sharing a sheltered community garden terrace. 4 vertically-stacked Sky Villages across 3 interconnected blocks giving a total of 12 villages. This innovation would work across the global tropical zone, where populations are exploding.
The apartments are designed as column-free, beam-free flexible apartment layouts, and make allowance for diverse family sizes, various lifestyles (e.g. home office/loft-living) and future flexibility. Buyers were offered 3 plan variations for each size of unit.