| Category | Residential |
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| Year | 2011 |
| Size | 17,900sqm |
Projects
Jardin
A total garden-nestled experience
In Jardin, the architectural outlook is defined by a dramatic face of green, renewing the notion of high-rise green living. Negotiating planning code guidelines on sky terraces, extensive façade-length terraces were introduced into every alternating level to create double-height garden spaces accessible to each of the building’s residences.
Besides the various scale and effects of landscape opportunities; the communal sky gardens, planter boxes, balconies, roof gardens, vertical greenery; a series of landscape design techniques are employed to further enrich the circulation and planning of the entire development, to create a holistic garden-nestled experience evolved about each resident.
Details
As the name Jardin depicts, the key essence in the design lies in the integration of garden settings vertically and horizontally, not only as generators of its distinctive architectural spaces and forms but also as inspiration for new pleasures of high-rise living in a high-density tropical city like Singapore.
This idea of Homes in a Garden also resonates meaningfully with Singapore’s identity as a Garden City. Besides functionally providing shade and buffer from traffic noise, elevated gardens at each alternate level produce numerous possibilities for social events, encouraging a friendlier form of non-gated communal high-rise living.
The communal garden living blurs the boundary between public and private spaces through the sharing of green spaces, promoting cohesion among the residents.
The elevated garden terraces add a strong presence to the development and a sense of richness for the main streetscape.
Multiple communal garden terraces connect to various residential floors, allowing an extension of the residents’ living spaces into the lush greenery and vice versa.
Various vertical greenery in the development further accentuate the garden-like atmosphere.
Upon arrival, visitors are greeted by a landscaped berm that provides a buffer and shade from the main road, while helping to raise the building dramatically. Various vertical spaces, such as communal lift lobby walls and columns are cladded with vertical green to enhance a garden-like quality. At each alternate level, extensive gardens extend out from the loft units to serve as deep communal ‘green balconies’. Besides its functionality, the gardens also connect the units’ living spaces, extend the residential domains and offer numerous usage possibilities for various social and leisure events. More importantly, it encourages a friendlier form of non-gated communal living, less seen in local condominium developments and enhances the streetscape of the locality in Dunearn Road.
Various landscaping techniques inspired by the art of garden design are employed to deliver a sensory experience. One such technique is the serial vision technique, where a series of landscape features unravels as one navigates the development. Landscape elements, such as vertical green, feature walls and light wells serve as focal points for the visitors to re-orientate while shafts of natural sunlight dramatize a sense of arrival. The Japanese technique of Shakkei, or “borrowed scenery” is likewise utilised to extend the Jardin visual experience and delight beyond its physical confinement.
Through the combination of these garden-living design strategies, the possibilities of vertical greenery are fully expounded and the promise of homes in a garden is delivered.
Specialist Services
Integrated services provided for this project.
AWARDS
| 2013 |
FIABCI Singapore Property Awards (Winner) Jardin |
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