| Category | Office | Institutional |
|---|---|
| Year | 2010 |
| Size | 35,140sqm |
Projects
NUHS Tower Block
The green belt
Located next to the forested verdure of Kent Ridge, the 14-storey NUHS Tower Block is seated along the green belt. Creating an aesthetic dialogue between the built environment and its natural surroundings, our landscape design conceptually extends this green belt into the internal spaces of the building.
We achieved this by blurring the boundary between outdoors and indoors; a design encounter that visitors experience even as they approach the block through a landscaped motor court. Here, a grove of Hopea odorata trees provide shade for the benches amid a cloud of red fountain grasses, Pennisetum alopecuroides rubrum. Enter the internal landscaped courtyard and the scenery transforms into one that exudes class and serenity. Its towering core and stark white palette are softened by the natural lighting that seeps in through an opening that runs along its entire centre. Complementary to this are the Ficus lyrata trees with benches beneath them. Their rich green broadly shaped leaves simultaneously soften the otherwise sterile white walls and filter the light streaming in through the opening above.
Details
The motor court lends an informal air with waiting benches nestled among billowy plantings.
A pastoral effect is created through the selected combination of myriad species of flowering shrubs.
A five-storey green wall adorning one end of the courtyard brings visual relief to the office floors. This is complemented by a reflective pool in black granite and an impressive mural with floral motifs in cement fondu by the late Ng Eng Teng, recessed into an alcove.
Stretching the green belt, we were also able to “green” the sports hall. Our choice of flora was the flowering vine, Thunbergia grandiflora, which are elegantly trained on cable screens made of stainless steel and mounted onto the end walls of the hall. Raised planters on the rooftop hold various themed plantings while enclosing spaces for a myriad of activities ranging from barbeque events to informal lounging.
Specialist Services
Integrated services provided for this project.