Research Campus & Retirement Home Village

Located within the lush tropical landscape at Malaysia, the site is characterized by lakes and water channels. The design of this research based campus is responds to the physical landscape of the site and to the weather patterns particular to this tropical environment.

To allow students to move around the campus freely, while shaded from the sun or protected from downpours, spaceship-shaped canopies shelter the pedestrian paths that wind around the eastern of the site. These canopies intersect to encircle a landscaped park. Arranged around the edge of the canopies are buildings of teaching and research, contained in institution blocks that tuck beneath the edges of the canopies.

Besides, retirement home village has been designated at the western side of the development. Community and the existing landscape natural world became the inspiration for this elderly village, which provides residents with easy access to the outdoors and plenty of the space to gather. The aims of the design is to provide "a sense of belonging in an era of uncertainty" for this group of residents.

Design Architects: Garis Architects S/B (Ar Ngu Ngie Woon)

Farming on the Skysraper

Green urban architecture has been around for a while, it has been widely development from bioclimatic architecture by Dr Ken Yeang back in 80's. Dr Ken Yeang started applying his sustainable design methodology in his skyscrapers design, theoretical writing and researches. Many of the ecologically sustainable buildings being developed today, owe their design principles to the methodology of Dr Ken Yeang.

Today, urban farming and farming on the high rise has been widely discussed and integrated. New self-sustaining urban farming idea is being planned to breath life back into the city.

An idea of eco-farming has been assimilated in one of our highrise tower design that nested at industrial land use land. Re-development proposal of this land into urban farming center that integrates technology for resource cycling (rainwater harvesting & cycling, garden fertilization to create a mixed-use building and vertical farming as new typology of community living skyscraper.

A community market place has been designated at the podium of the development. The vision of these green market is vibrant key node for civic and community uses. The market place is intended to reconfigure the public nodes and its connectivity to adjacent BRT, station. Also, the adjacent future developments enhanced. Its provide a comfortable green gathering space, setting up of events.

The towers would be covered with lush farming terrace on the west façade. The planted terraces for each floor will help to absorb sound, provide shade and cleanse the air by absorbing carbon dioxide. In addition to providing the same benefits as vertical farming terrace, it also create a living environment for birds and wildlife.

Design Architects: Garis Architects S/B; GAde Design Workshop

(Ar Ngu Ngie Woon)