Key：Metrostudio Architecture Trip | 2014

项目概况:

The Oliv designed by W Architects Pte Ltdis Located along Balmoral Road, in central Singapore, near to the Orchard shopping belt. The site area is 3,357m² and overall GFA (with balconies) is 5,908.70m². It was awarded MIPIM BEST RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT 2014. A block of 12-storey residential flat development (total: 23 units) with sky terraces, a basement car park, and communal facilities including a swimming pool, a gym and alounge. It has become the most notable feature of the façade. The apartments consist of front and back blocks that stagger in section. The 2 blocks are connected and served by a spinal block of common lifts and services. Each floor plate of a block consists of 2 maisonettes, sharing a substantial 130 m2 skyterrace, accessible by a common lift. The 7m high sky terrace fronting the units is a covered and landscaped outdoor space – giving each unit a feeling of an extended exterior ground. When viewed from the exterior, the sky terraces are expressed as a series of elevated and undulating ground-scape withirregular profiles. The two ends of each sky terrace tapers off in differentdirections in response to the privacy of the adjacent rooms. The sky terrace,which tapers from 5.5 to 7m in depth, also acts as a large projection canopythat cuts off glare from the double volume interior. The undersides of the sky terraces are expressed as cast and textured off-form concrete, whereas the floor is finished in natural balau (timber), complete with recessed planter boxes that carry the lushes of the vertical garden. The raw and natural quality of the sky terraces makes it an organic element, which contrasts strongly tothe linear geometry for the rest of the development.