In TMW at Maxwell, we expanded the application of communal sky terraces as a biophilic extension of the home where live, work and play could occur seamlessly for the 324 apartments. A Tower of Sky Terraces designed on the building’s gabled end facing Maxwell Road. This series of pocket gardens in the air is stacked, staggered and inter-connected to become a vertical park accessible to all the residents, from all floors. A myriad of landscape and spatial concepts, amenities and ambiences carry across the floors. TMW has a Green Plot Ratio of 6.55 and total leaf area forming more than 6 times of overall site. This vertical park of pocket gardens is envisaged to be the extended living space of the small apartments, a new Third Space and urban face of revitalized, city living in nature.
Embedded amongst the fine grain historical shophouse clusters and a stone throw away from ultra-sleek high-rise office towers, the mixed development looks to engage the richness of both worlds, celebrating the diversity of city living. At grade, the development’s 3-storey commercial podium is split, sunken and elevated to break down the scale of the building; façade fenestrations and grids carefully articulate the modularity of the shophouse rows. Street porosity and circulation is maximized with the introduction of multiple internal streets. In the development forecourt, a sunken garden terrace leads street activity down to the basement retail. A pedestrian mall on grade flanks the long elevation of the building, connecting the existing major vehicular and pedestrian network. An elevated pedestrian street runs adjacent to this, verdantly landscaped and fitted with street furniture. Through these thoroughfares, public events and social interaction are encouraged, tied together and lush tropical planting throughout the weaving paths. Landscape flows uninterrupted from the street upwards to the apex of the tower, creating a new urban face and revitalized way of living in the city.