GREEN GLOBE

THE HOTEL THAT IS A GARDEN

The Parkroyal on Pickering, Singapore, designed by Singapore-based WOHA Architects, was conceptualised as a garden. Waterfalls flow from swimming pools and garden terraces on the podium roof into gaps from which plants can grow.

Greenery thrives throughout the site, with its voluptuous sky garden, tropical plants and frangipani layered between blocks of guest rooms and the hotel garden which seems to form a part of the bordering park.

Suspended above the pool deck of a five-storey platform, a 12-storey tower forms an E, so that the guest rooms either look out into the sky garden or north to the park. The hotel is shaded by the sky garden and shielded from morning and afternoon sun by the adjoining buildings. The building is divided horizontally by the open verandah on the fifth floor and by the protruding layers of the sky gardens above.

The platform or podium is referred to by WOHA as “topographical architecture”. The laminated, rolling layers of pre-cast concrete wrap around the hotel’s public areas. The winding bands of concrete weave through the podium without interruption and without forming boundaries between the interior and outside areas.

“We wanted to recreate an urban street scale, so that people walking and driving could pick up interesting details. And we wanted to work with the building’s mass and appearance, so we could avoid the usual city scale of building-as-silhouette, and so we could implement a garden-themed aesthetic,” says WOHA.

Patrick Bingham Hall

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