Gardens by the Bay Master Plan (First Part)

White Hat Architecture believes that taking into account the architecture and philosophy into the direccion of the use and  knowledge of materials, a confined relationship between the  sketch and the client is established, starting since the first stages of the project.

Master Plan View

This is how the firm Wilkinson Eyre Architects is incorporated into the development for Marina Bay´s master plan and shows us their concern about sustainable development, taking as a platform for development the creation of a green complex where we are shown how to take advantage of environmental resources and the style to design unusual spaces, transforming the vegetation into something more atractive for the architecture. Taking advantage of the Project; the culture built by Singapur around the sustentability, horticulture and artistic garden;  it is shown to the World what Singapore´s people maintain as a living style, culture and society inside this complex,even the deepest corners where we can explore an environment similar to that in a mediterranean place or changing to a more tropical place.

Gardens by the Bay Map View

The Project has four elements to distinguish: The flower Dome, The Cloud Forest, Supertree Grove, The Dragonfly and Kingfisher Lake. The first two  architectonic elements are the most striking and complex that one can see, where most of the environmental reserve was developed and which had more architectonic attention for its development. Considered as the biggest Greenhouses without columns in the world, the architectonic elements Flower Dome and Cloud Forest achieve the majority of the catchment of freshwater and sunlight that subsequently can be reused and transformed into energy, given that the main characteristic they have is to keep a humid and warm weather for the growth of the diferents plants that are kept in the interior.

Gardens by the Bay Sky View

The Flower Dome and Cloud Forest design required the use of more than 16 000m2 of glass, which was  split in a repetitive pattern to facilitate its maintenance as well as to take advantage of sunlight, wrapped in a steel net that acts like an eggshell, moreover there exists a sail roll installed in the steel structures that are sensitive to sunlight, these activate in the sunnier days to generate shadow reducing by 65% the incident of sunlight, avoiding the greenhouse effect.

Flower Dome 

White Hat Architecture suggests reading Gardens by the Bay Master Plan (Second Part) to learn more about The Flower Dome and the rest of the project.

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Flower Dome image source: www.jacquelineong.com