Friday, September 25, 2009
"The Interlace is one of the largest and most ambitious residential developments in Singapore. It will present a radically new approach to contemporary living in a lush tropical environment...
Instead of creating a cluster of isolated, vertical towers – the standard typology of residential developments in Singapore – the design responds to the issues and challenges of tropical living by proposing an expansive network of recreational and dwelling spaces integrated with the natural environment...
Thirty-one apartment blocks, each six stories tall, are stacked in a hexagonal arrangement to form eight large-scale open and permeable courtyards. The interlocking volumes form the topography of a ‘vertical village’ with cascading sky gardens and private and public roof terraces vertically extending the landscape of the courtyards. Extensive communal facilities which are embedded in the lush vegetation offer multiple opportunities for social interaction in a natural environment. While maintaining the privacy of the individual apartment units through generous spacing of the building blocks and unobstructed far-ranging views, the horizontal and interconnected volumes create an interactive network of outdoor spaces within the green terrain..." to find out more...
images & passage from Archinect
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