The site for this house posed several challenges to overcome.
Firstly, it is located right at the junction of two busy 4-lane roads. And in addition to that, the overhead MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) viaduct for the East-West cross-island train is located just beyond one of these roads. There is constant noise coming from cars and the passing train.
The front of the site, where the main gate is located, faces almost West. To keep out heat and glare from the low angle western sun, the 2 most visible facades cannot have too many see-through openings.
Not far from the Fort Canning Hill, Clarke Quay was once the most bustling wharf in Singapore. Now it no longer serves as a dock for the loading and unloading of cargoes and its original godowns were transformed into a leisure neighborhood. Here is where HEYTEA launched its first oversea shop of the DP (Daydreamer Project) series, with “lighthouse” as the design theme.
This environmentally friendly seafront house embraces Singapore’s tropical climate by creating an open, breezy space, giving residents views from every room to the ocean as well as into the garden with its large swimming pool. Our main endeavour was to create a residence with seamless integration of the surrounding nature and therefore water had to play a key role in achieving that. A large swimming pool with free flowing borders and artificial islands is linking the garden with the house. This connection is extended to the basement media room, where a grand u-shaped window allows dramatic views into the underwater world of the pool and provides indirect daylight to the room.
Situated in Eastern Singapore amongst traditional shop houses and hidden away within a sequestered residential node, the tranquil surroundings of 9JW-House belies the bustling activity of the nearby ports. Bungalows and inter-terrace houses line the shaded streets that twist deep into the neighbourhood. The new house occupies a corner plot, rising up at a bend in the road that is shaded on the opposite side by bougainvilleas and trees.
9JW-House is a new 3-storey residence which first announces itself through a striking front façade comprised of concrete, teak and glass. Behind a wooded gate and pebble-specked car porch, a lower front volume made of teak strips forms a sturdy base beneath upper volumes comprised of fair-faced concrete and glass. A black-framed glass viewing port stretches over most of the middle and upper volumes, providing a muted reflection of the daytime sky and the surrounding neighbourhood below.
This is a home surrounded by a vast garden that converges at a colossal pre-war rain tree with such magnificence that its presence is ingrained within the very architecture of the house itself. Throughout this home are numerous encounters with nature whilst still being very much indoors. The architectural placement of the building allows for the viewing of the feature tree from all of the main spaces, from either of its two storeys right down to the basement.
In 2015 Carve and Playpoint won a tender for an adventurous sliding attraction inside the Jewel Changi Airport development, designed by Moshe Safdie Architects.
The attraction is located in the Canopy Park on the highest level of the new development, which includes a shopping mall, attraction park and a garden, all in front of Terminal 1. In this canopied park, more than 1400 trees and palms will be housed alongside many other attractions. Creating the ultimate airport experience, and convincing travellers to go through Singapore's Changi airport instead of others.
Project: The Discovery Slides at Jewel Changi Airport complex
Location: Canopy Park at Jewel Changi International Airport, Singapore, level 5
Photography: Playpoint (SINGAPORE) Pte Ltd
Client: Jewel Changi Airport Group
Size discovery slides: 18×16,7×7,5 metres
Carve Team: Elger Blitz, Lucas Beukers, Mark van der Eng, Jasper van der Schaaf, Hannah Schubert, Thomas Tiel Groenestege, Marleen Beek, Elke Krausmann, Henry Roberts, Gaia Glereani
Designed by Safdie Architects, Jewel Changi Airport, the newest development at Singapore’s award-winning Changi Airport, will commence a phased opening in April 2019. Jewel Changi Airport combines an intense marketplace and a paradise garden to create a new center – “the heart and soul” of Changi Airport. Once open, Jewel will establish a new paradigm for community-centric airport design, extending the airport’s principal function as a transit hub to create an interactive civic plaza and marketplace, combining landside airport operations with expansive indoor gardens and waterfall leisure facilities, retail, restaurants, and a hotel as well as other spaces for community activities.
Linked to the city’s public transportation grid and with open access to Terminal 1, and to Terminals 2 and 3 via pedestrian bridges, Jewel engages both in-transit passengers as well as the public of Singapore. Entirely publicly accessible, the 135,700-square-meter (1,460,660 sq.ft.) glass-enclosed toroidal building asserts a new model for airports as a destination for community activity, entertainment, and shopping.
“Jewel presents a new building prototype for connecting the city and the airport,” said Jaron Lubin, Principal at Safdie Architects. “Like an Ancient Greek ‘agora,’ it aligns social and commercial values to create an animated public realm destination.”
Project Team: David Foxe, Seunghyun Kim, Benjy Lee, Dan Lee, Peter Morgan, Reihaneh Ramezany, Laura Rushfeldt, Isaac Safdie, Damon Sidel, Temple Simpson, Lee Hua Tan, Andrew Tulen.
Environmental & Sustainable Design: Atelier Ten
Retail Interiors: Benoy
Building Structure and Facades: Buro Happold Engineering
The People’s Chapel is a small church sitting on a 200sqm sliver of land in a mature landed residential estate. The original church occupied a single storey corner terrace built in the 1940s. Plans for rebuilding came about after heavy downpour in October 2010 caused serious damage, rendering it unsafe for occupation.
The unique setting of a religious building in a residential area caused concern to the planning authority. A protracted 4-year appeal process eventually rezoned the residential site as Place of Worship in April 2015, with the total floor area capped at original building footprint. Completed in September 2017, rebuilding this church took 7 years.
Situated in Eastern Singapore amongst traditional shop houses and family homes, 80ADR-House is part of a tide of renewal that ebbs slowly into the island’s older neighbourhoods. An A&A project that carefully integrates classic and contemporary styles, the revamped residence subtly contrast its surroundings – with Architects drawing inspiration from the past while simultaneously adapting features for modern use.
At its best, faculty buildings that house schools of architecture and design—apart from serving functional needs of its occupants—strive to demonstrate and represent the pedagogical ambitions of the school itself. This is evident in the Bauhaus Building in Dessau that adopted the logic of industrial production; the open studio trays for cross-disciplinary collaboration in Harvard GSD; or the bar and front members rooms as a social condenser in the AA's Georgian Terrace school.
Tags: Singapore Comments Off on School of Design & Environment 4 at the National University of Singapore by Multiply Architects LLP + Serie Architects + SURBANA JURONG
email
Facebook
Twitter
RSS Feed
