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Located on a strategic urban node, TMW Maxwell is a high-rise mixed development in the heart of the Singapore’s Central Business District. Responding to the post-pandemic Work-From-Anywhere (WFA) trend amongst urban dwellers, we wanted to create a biophilic home in the city where live, work and play occur seamlessly and creatively. With this, we conceptualised a series of sky terraces that is deconstructed, split, staggered, interconnected to form niches of varying size, programmes, vistas, landscape conditions that cater accessibly to residents at majority of the residential floors.
Embedded amongst the fine grain historical shophouse clusters and high-rise office towers, the development looks to engage the richness of both worlds, celebrating the diversity of city living. At grade, the podium is split, sunken and elevated, breaking down the building scale; façade fenestrations and grids carefully articulate the modularity of the shophouse rows. The tower of sky terraces allows landscape to flow seamlessly from the surroundings inwards and upwards. This surpasses façade treatment, offering intimate pocket garden spaces attached to majority of residential floors, forming work pods, outdoor living rooms and entertainment decks to play. In bringing residents out of the apartment, one gets to engage in the various forms of flora and fauna beyond a confined urban space.
TMW has a Green Plot Ratio of 6.85 and total leaf area 6 times of the tight urban site. Beyond CO2 absorption and urban heat island reduction, the pocket gardens improve air quality and reduce energy consumption of the building. These are naturally ventilated, generously distributed to maximise natural daylighting, while remaining sheltered for user comfort in Singapore’s harsh tropical climate. They form accessible incubators housing varying species of flora and fauna, enhancing urban biodiversity. Low-carbon concrete and prefabricated units are used in the building’s superstructure. Walkability is further championed through multi-level through-block sheltered walkways and an integrated network of bicycle paths, bicycle lifts, ramps and end of trip facilities for residents.
Through multi-level thoroughfares, public events and social interaction are encouraged, tied together and lush tropical planting throughout the weaving paths. Landscape flows uninterrupted from the street upwards to the apex of the tower, creating a new urban face and revitalized way of living in the city. The Tower of Sky Terraces designed on the building’s gabled end facing Maxwell Road is a series of pocket gardens in the air is stacked, staggered and inter-connected to become a vertical park accessible to all the residents, from all floors. A myriad of landscape and spatial concepts, amenities and ambiences carry across the floors. Activity areas span from playful celebrative party decks, lazy breakfast bar counters, amphitheaters for small movie screenings, discussive and quiet spaces for work, meditative decks for communal yoga, cocktail bars for social gatherings, to sky jacuzzis to enjoy the setting sun. This vertical park of pocket gardens is envisaged to be the extended living space of the small apartments, a new Third Space and urban face of revitalized, city living.
TMW Maxwell is filled with possibilities, excitement and new experiences. Just like how urbanites of tomorrow defy categorisation, home, office, park and gallery are blended into one exciting offering. As lives and stories unravel, a biophilic spectacle arises. The Vertical Park is principally designed based on duality – versatile green spaces that adapt and change throughout any given day; a focal point for one to socialise, connect, entertain and do it all.
Formwerkz Architects was established in Singapore in 2004 by Alan Tay, Seetoh Kum Loon, Gwen Tan and Berlin Lee.
Formwerkz is a design collective that is passionate about undertaking compelling challenges and dedicated to seeking solutions that improves our physical world, making it a better place for everyone. Our design approach is centred in human experience and prioritises projects that effect the most positive impact.
The practice is largely defined and shaped by their common interest in the recovery of mutual human relationships, and the restoration of primordial relationships between man and nature. Projects become vehicles to design happenings or more precisely, the conditions that can espouse more active engagement between man and man with his environment.
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