Capitaland Residential, a branch of one of Asia’s largest real estate investment firm, CapitaLand Limited, announced it is working with famed architect firm, Rem Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), in developing a large scale residential development in Singapore. The new project will be located in between a major throughway, Ayer Rajah Expressway and Alexandra Road.
A convenient locale amid National University and the downtown area, the project will occupy an expansive 8 hectare area with roughly 170,000 square meters of floor space, which translate to about 1,000+ apartments in various sizes. Taking cues from environmental and social factors, the apartments blocks will not be in the typical forms of isolated, vertical structures. Instead, 32 structures, each 6-stories high, will be stacked on top of each other, in a hexagon arrangement. The unique arrangement will create a “vertical village”, maximize communal spaces among each structures for social interactions between the residents. Cascading gardens and rooftop terraces will seamlessly blend the complex among surrounding green landscapes of Kent Ridge, Telok Blangah and Mount Faber Parks. The layout also create unobstructed views of the natural environment around from each apartment unit.
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Aside from the incorporation of the structures to its surrounding, both developers and designers took into account the project’s footprints on the environment, its future energy consumption, and other sustainability issues. Patricia Chia, the Chief Executive Officer of CapitaLand Residential Singapore, says “We are thrilled with the opportunity to create such an innovative project in partnership with OMA. The design expands our progressive ambition and enables us to add a radically new concept to environmentally-conscious living in Singapore”. “It simultaneously responds to issues of privacy and individuality as well as to social and communal needs by offering multiple types of indoor and outdoor spaces specific to the tropical context”, adds Ole Scheeren, Partner at OMA and lead designer on this project as well as the new 575,000 square meter headquarter of China’s CCTV, currently in construction at Beijing. Scheeren also led the developments of both Prada flagships in New York and Los Angels.
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