OMA unveils 'fat chip' housing scheme for Singapore
- Published: 04 February 2008 10:56
- Author: Richard Waite
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- Last Updated: 04 February 2008 11:50
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Rem Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has unveiled a 32-block residential development in Singapore.
The 170,000m2 project, which resembles a pile of fat gastro-pub-style chips stacked in a six hexagonal clusters, will house 1,000 apartments on an 8ha site between the National University and downtown Singapore.
According to the practice 'the interlocking volumes [of each six-storey block] form the topography of a "vertical village" with cascading sky gardens and private roof terraces vertically extending the landscape of the courtyards.'
The scheme, for CapitaLand Residential, will sit close to the Ayer Rajah Expressway and the Alexander Road and, OMA says, will 'complete the green belt stretching between Kent Ridge, Telok Blangah and Mount Faber Park'.
Ole Scheeren, the director of OMA Beijing and the brains behind the double-Z-shaped China Central Television headquarters, is masterminding the project.
He said: 'This project directly addresses concerns of shared space and community in a contemporary society.
'It simultaneously responds to issues of privacy and individuality as well as to social and communal needs by offering multiple types of indoor and outdoor spaces specific to the tropical context.'
