City
Country
Procedure
Status
Year
Programme
Floor Area
Client
Team
Landscape
Singapore
Singapore
Competition
Project
2019
Offices, meeting rooms
1.500 sqm
Bundesamt für Bauten und Logistik BBL
Sonja Berthold, Dietmar Leyk with Lei-Ya Wong
Landscape Collaboration Co., Ltd., Bangkok
The
new extension to the embassy is housed in a free-standing structure. Based on
the crown structure of the trees, the upper layer of a forest, the so-called
umbrella, we create a construction for shady protection from the tropical sun
and thus promote a new microclimate of our own. In forestry, the canopy gains
its importance by shading the vegetation growing underneath. It creates a
forest interior climate on a given area, which provides a moderate course of
humidity, temperature and solar radiation compared to open land. We propose to
span the new episode of outdoor spaces with a canopy in this sense. Together
with the existing natural tree canopies, the screen creates a fascinating play
of light, surface, and depth.
