Year In Infrastructure 2005

STUDENT COMPETITION: ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Talking Galleria
Singapore Polytechnic

The featured space, the architectural gallery, is placed on the third and fourth stories. SOHO units are placed on stories nine through 17. Between the podium and the tower is a 15-meter-high roof garden for social activities.

The design intent is expressed in the podium with two separate blocks connected by bridges and a stairs with a nine-story tower. The podium bridges allow experiencing the view and feel of the Singapore River. Traveling on the bridge enables one to communicate with the atrium space (a quadruplet volume), the floor above, and the floor below as well as the neighboring buildings. This enables the

architecture to express itself and fit among the buildings around the site.

MicroStation and Bentley Architecture were used in the design process from conceptualization to design development. Studies were made and rendered to communicate the design ideas. ;