*아열대 하이라이즈 가든 공동주거 [ DP Architects ] Jardin

건축과 랜드스케이프(자연)와의 만남

쟈뎅 디자인은 버티컬 가든 생성과 프렌치 생활방식의 적용을 주 개념으로 진행된다. 이러한 개념은 건축형상 구현을 위한 형태론 제공과 모던 라이프 스타일, 하이라이즈 거주환경의 새로운 즐거움 제공을 목표로 한다. 거주자의 쾌적한 삶의 질 향상을 위한 정원은 각 세대앞에 위치, 외부환경을 포괄적으로 아우르는 거주환경을 풍요롭게 구축한다.

쟈뎅은 거주환경 속에 건축과 랜드스케이프를 합성, 하이라이즈 가든 생활을 구현한다. 각층, 세대로 부터 확장된 거대한 정원은 공용발코니로 제공되는 동시에 도시의 소음을 차단하는 필터막, 소셜활동을 촉진시키는 공용의 장으로 (기능적 요소) 사용된다. 이러한 전망 좋은 가든 스페이스 경험의 시작은 건물을 위 아래로 가로 지르는 녹색환경의 풍부함 속에 발현된다.

고밀도 열대생활 속의 아늑한 정원생활 체험

10층으로 적층된 그래서 고밀도화된 거주환경의 불편한 시각의 극복을 위해 쟈뎅의 건축환경은 거대한(장축으로)플로어 위에 자연을 식재한 공중 정원을 삽입시킨다. 이를 통해 심미적인 버퍼를 확장시킨다. 이러한 랜드스케이프 기준과 관계생성(정원의 당위성을 정의하는)은 소프트 스케이프와 하드스케이프 사이에서 조정, 구현되며 확장된 파사드-장축의 테라스로 표현된다. 이또한 어느곳에서도 접근 가능하도록 개방된다. 이를 통해 확보된 자연과의 친밀성은 열대지방, 고밀도 도심생활의 새로운 타입으로 제안된다.

쟈뎅 공동주거는 다음과 같이 구성된다.

총 10층 높이에 연면적 18,000sqm, 140세대로 구성된다. 여기에 세대로 부터 접근가능한 확장정원 8,600sqm이 포함된다.

세대는 서로 다른 8개의 타입으로 70sqm~150sqm 다양하게 구성된다.

하이라이즈 가든 디자인은 컴템퍼러리 라이프 스타일과 다양한 요구가 반영된 결과물로 풀밭위의 점심, 정원에서의 디너파티, 일요일의 게으른 늦은 브런치 등... 개인 야외생활을 즐길 수 있는 루프와 가든데크를 제공한다.

reviewed by SJ,오사

DP Architects has been involved in residential design since its early years as Design Partnership. The firm’s first condominium project, also one of the first condominiums in Singapore, Ridgewood Condominium, a 20-storey, 464-unit development was completed in 1981. It offered a Hawaiian theme to the architecture and a garden landscape for the residents.

In those days, living in a condominium was associated with exclusivity and privacy, a prestigious address, an assortment of on-site facilities and amenities, as well as a more high-end style of living compared with the cookie-cutter type of public housing that was predominant in a young nation like Singapore. Today, condominium design has become increasingly challenging as developers shift towards marketing a complete lifestyle package rather than simply an apartment unit.

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Architects: DP Architects
Location: Ridgewood Condominium, Singapore
Project Team Members: Seah Chee Huang, Yeong Weng Fai, Eric Yau, Nur Alina Bte Mohamed Ali, Ng Ting Yu, Lim Foong Ting
Area: 17940.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of DP Architects

ARCHITECTURE MEETS LANDSCAPE

The design of Jardin incorporates two main ideas – a ‘vertical’ garden setting and the French notion of living. These concepts are pivotal architectural form-generators, and encapsulate new pleasures of high-rise living and modern lifestyles. Extending the desire of enjoying a garden setting in front of one’s abode, Jardin allows this simple pleasure of living in a garden to be materialised in a high-rise environment, by literally bringing gardens right up in the sky.

In Jardin, where architecture and landscape merge into a living environment, the pleasure of living in a high-rise garden environment is materialised. At each alternate level, extensive gardens extend from the loft units, serving as deep communal ‘balconies’. Besides functionally providing shade and buffer from city noise, these gardens connect the units’ living spaces, allowing for use as social spaces.

The experience of the scenic gardenscape begins upon entry to the development, where residents and visitors are greeted by a green terrain that berms and elevates the building. The combination of French and garden themes epitomises the spirit of this exciting residential property, that of providing quality and tasteful living amid clever landscaping that challenges the conventional notions of residential landscaping.

GARDEN-NESTLED EXPERIENCE: HIGH-DENSITY TROPICAL LIVING

To compensate for a ten-storey height constraint, the Jardin’s design utilises large floor plates and a lengthy building perimeter in an exploration that merges communal landscape with high-density urban living.

By negotiating planning code guidelines and the relationships between softscape and hardscape, extensive facade-length terraces have been built into every alternating level to create double-height garden spaces accessible to each of the building’s residences. A number of techniques in landscape design are explored to provide a blend of experiences by which the garden evolves about a user; these implementations of natural spatial development have the potential to establish new forms of high-density urban living in the tropics.

Such practices of garden design include serial vision, developed by architect and urban designer Gordon Cullen in the English Townscape movement, which considers the garden as a sequence of spaces that reveal themselves to a meanderer in succession: in the Jardin, garden elements — green walls or feature walls— serve as focal points for the reorientation of the visitor along various axes of travel; shafts of natural sunlight are employed to vary visibility. The complexities of the garden channel a sensory journey.

Circulation within Jardin is planned with a series of scenes and settings unravelling as one moves from one space to another through the development. Circulation within Jardin is planned with a series of scenes and settings unravelling as one moves from one space to another through the development. Fostering community has always been a crucial element to garden planning. Projecting gardens at alternating levels of the Jardin serve as communal ‘green balconies’ — sites of social interchange in the open air. The roof hosts a club and recreation garden with a collection of event pavilions that also intend to cultivate gatherings.

Jardin’s 18,000sqm, ten-storey block offers 140 units with accessibility to these extensive garden spaces as well as the 8,600sqm site’s landscaping. The units vary among eight different floor plans ranging in size from 70sqm to 150sqm. In the design of these highrise gardens, a multitude of contemporary lifestyles and desires is encapsulated – luncheon on the grass; dining in the garden; a lazy Sunday afternoon slouching in the shady cabana; parties on roof or garden decks; and open-air showers.

from  archdaily