DDC Issue 5 by Tha Lia

Development Design & Construction issue 5 | November 2011

PROFILE BELON MACAU

STUDIO AIKO ARCHITECTURE SIMULATION: DESERT VILLA

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Development Design & Construction

Belon Oyster Bar & Grill, Banyan Tree courtesy of DWP

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Summary News from around Asia

Project Profile : Belon Macau with DWP

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Thai Government Sets Flood Recovery Plan The Thai government has announced its plan for helping the country recover from the floods that are s ll aﬀec ng large parts of the country, including the capital, Bangkok. The plan is divided into three stages.

The second stage will begin as the waters start to recede and will aim to get everything back to normal as quickly as possible. The strategy in this stage will include paying compensa on to flood vic ms.

The first stage is to begin immediately and involves a ending to urgent issues, such as distributing relief aid to flood vic ms and providing medical treatment.

The final stage will involve developing long term solu ons to Thailand’s water management problems, which have been exacerbated through climate

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change. In addi on to the annual floods, the country has also experienced more severe droughts in recent years. To work on the solu ons to these problems, two commi ees will be established: the commi ee on strategies for reconstruc on and building of the country’s future, and the commi ee on strategies for water resources management.

Thailand’s New Floating Markets

hailand’s largest shopping centre developer is set to add flood preven on measures into the structural design of its future malls. Having already incorporated earthquake resistance four years ago, Central Pa ana Plc has reacted to Thailand’s current flood crisis by announcing that underground

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Singapore’s BIM Needs Private Sector Support

s the Building and Construcon Authority (BCA) of Singapore con nues its drive to have 3D building informa on modelling (BIM) widely adopted by the country’s building industry by 2015, Singapore’s government has provided a total of S$6 million in funding to promote the transi on in more than 100 local companies, almost a third of which are engineering con-

sultants. The BIM fund is to be used on training, consultancy, so ware and hardware costs, incen ves and awards to mo vate the use of BIM by building professionals. Finally, the role of social media was highlighted as a way of encouraging the next genera on of building professionals to get involved. 

IIB Of Malaysia And China’s Zhuoda To Collaborate On Medini Project

alaysia’s Iskandar Investment Bhd (IIB) and Chinese real estate developer Zhuoda Real Estate Group have reached agreement to collaborate on mixed residen al and commercial projects in Medini Iskandar Malaysia in Johor. The agreement represents the first real estate investment in Medini by a foreign firm and will also be the largest project ever undertaken in the area. At a cost of 1.85 billion Malaysian Ringits, the 3-phase project is due to start next year and is expected to take between 10 and 15 years to complete. The

first 2 phases will be jointly developed by IIB and Qingdao Zhuoyuan Investment Holdings (Zhuoyuan), a subsidiary of Zhuoda. The final phase will be handled en rely by Zhuoda. 

Primavera Residences Nominated For Award

he 250-million peso Primavera Residences at Pueblo de Oro in Cagayan de Oro City in the Philippines is in the running for an award at the pres gious South East Asia Property (SEAP) awards 2011. The project,

which is the first eco-friendly condominium development in Northern Mindanao, has been nominated for the Green Development Award. Developer Primavera has also been nominated as one of the best condo developers in the Philippines. Now in its 6th year, the SEAP includes a total of 28 award categories, covering all aspects of real estate development and services in the South-East Asia region. The winners will be announced at a Dinner and Awards Ceremony at Fort Canning Hotel in Singapore on November 30. 

Big Plans For Westin In China

aving recently relocated its global headquarters to Shanghai, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide is set to open 3 new Wes n-branded proper es in China by April 2012. Located in Ningbo, Xian and Xiamen, the three new hotels will take the Wes n por olio to 16 in China. The company also has ambi ous plans to add up to another 100 proper es in China over the next few years. D|D&C | 4

The Future Of China’s Real Estate Market and Tokyo. s with anything that inflates quickly to an ar ficial size, While developers and invesChina’s bulging real estate martors reap the rewards of such ket has been likened by many to growth, the country has been a bubble. And everyone knows faced with ever-increasing probthat no bubble can keep growlems of infla on and income ing forever. But is China’s real inequality, causing the Chinese estate market about to pop in government to demand lower a spectacular implosion, or is it real estate prices. Whether in more likely to deflate slowly to a response to government presmore natural size? sure or just as a reac on to market forces, many developers are The rapid rise of real estate indeed lowering their prices. prices in China has seen many proper es in the country’s socalled er one ci es like Beijing The signs certainly indicate that the uncontrolled growth and Shanghai become at least as expensive as similar real esenjoyed by China’s real estate market over the last decade or tate in tradi onally high-priced ci es such as New York, London so is coming to an end. Looking

Marriott’s Chinese Century arrio Interna onal has passed a major milestone with the signing of its latest hotel in China. The 345-room JW Marrio Hotel Shenyang is set to become the company’s 100th property in what is now its most important market outside the US. With 56 hotels already opera ng in China, the latest agree-

ment takes the company’s pipeline total to 44. Marrio plans to open one new hotel in China each month for the next 3 years. While the majority of the Marrio proper es in China have so far been luxury brands, such as JW Marrio and Ritz-Carlton, the company

at the country as a whole, home sales and real estate prices are on the decline, and more price cuts are expected in the coming months as the gap between supply and demand increases. However, while the volume of sales is falling across the country, it is primarily in the er two and three ci es where developers are lowering their prices. The cost of purchasing real estate in Shanghai and Beijing has con nued to rise—albeit at a slower pace. It may well be then that the Chinese real estate bubble is not ready to burst just yet, but it certainly has a few slow leaks. actually operates a total of 20 brands in China. Having established itself in er one ci es, Marrio is also star ng to look towards opportuni es in er two and three ci es. However, while the company sees huge poten al in the Chinese market, it is also cas ng a wary eye on rising labour costs, which it sees as being its biggest challenge over the next decade.  D|D&C | 5

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OPULENT OYSTER OASIS Designing the Belon Oyster Bar & Grill at the Banyan Tree Macau

orld-class architecture and interior design firm dwp were commissioned to create the interiors for the new speciality feature restaurant of the Banyan Tree Macau. Prestigiously located on the top floor of the hotel, boasting enormous windows with views over the Macao skyline, Belon Oyster Bar & Grill is evocative of an underwater experience. Set over around 2000sqm, the restaurant is conceived to be generously spacious, indulgent for guests, and a premier dining destination. Starting with the oyster shape, the design takes reference from a continuation of underwater forms, movements and colours. Curvaceous oceanic shapes and details, inspired by aquatic forms of scallop tails, jellyfish, tentacles, waves and spiraling shells, envelop the entirety, flooding the space with a visual underwater language. The floorplan sits on the long slender D|D&C | 7

arm of the hotel wing. Working within this outline, the restaurant is laid out to create a procession, from an intimate entry landing, down and through a variance of low and high ceiling spaces along the spine, right to the end point of the private dining rooms. The top levels of the hotel presented numerous structural configuration issues and a very congested services arrangement. The very low ceiling height area between the entry and main dining spaces was a challenge to create sufficient space for necessary services, though also presented an opportunity to create a sense of drama for the arrival experience. Services for the building and restaurant itself both jostle for space under the large beams, and the curving ceiling bulkheads create opportunities for additional space for them to snake through. Being sandwiched between the hotel and plant rooms, several ducts and risers needed to be added through the restaurant space during the construc-

tion period, and were concealed within partitions and feature elements. The tall windows needed additional structural support for safety, which was integrated into the housing of the window treatments. From the entry landing onto a grand feature glass staircase, descending into the speciality restaurant, guests pass a waterfall and custom kinetic artwork, via a long, low and elegant reception, to arrive at the oyster bar. The glass stairs glows deep blue underfoot and beneath a blue translucent canopy, wrapping overhead like a curling ocean wave. The tall waterfall passes to the right from double height ceiling to the pool below. To the left, a glistening kinetic crystal suspended sculpture moves and sways in the imaginary current. A shallow water feature, as an extension of the waterfall, leads guests along the long, low and curving entry way, towards the bar and lounge, highlighting the D|D&C | 8

sense of arrival. The form of the bar and the specialist oyster bar, coupled together, emerge from the curving wall and create a meeting point, encouraging guests into the adjacent lounge. Still under the intimacy of the low height, the ceiling morphs into a spiralling array of illuminated coves, like a giant conch shell. From the lounge bar, the procession moves into the whale bone archway, where a central corridor divides the main dining spaces. This leads into the dining rooms with double-height starlit ceilings. Formed as though the enclosing cage within an enormous whale, the bones curve and soar overhead. The focus of the dining spaces, framed at the end of the corridor ahead, is the curvaceous grill bar and fresh food display, with a lobster tank. Gently illuminated curved privacy screens encircle dining tables, as if a glowing shelter. Between the lower lounge seats and the higher dining tables, rows of clear slender columns trap bubbles of air rising up to the ceiling surface. Overhead, curving bulkheads intertwine with an explosion of suspended crystals, reminiscent of a starlit ocean sky at night. In places, sinuous blown glass chandeliers of jellyfish shapes descend to meet the table tops.

Project: Belon Oyster Bar & Grill, Banyan Tree Location: Macau, China Area: 1,994sqm Scope: Interior Design & Build Lead Designer: Dale Yeo Completion: September 2011

At the head of the dining rooms, sculpted like a swirling scallop tail, the open grill bar serves direct to table. Paired with the visually dramatic wine cellar behind, and together forming a circular shape, they sit at the centre of the restaurant like a nexus, and articulate the flow of the space into the cigar lounge and private D|D&C | 9

dining rooms beyond. These private areas are tall elegant spaces, with cavernously clad walls in full doubleheight dark timber. Divided only by heavy, lengthy drapery, the spaces open with a flowing motion, and the organic wrap of the ceiling shapes and suspended crystals links them together. The material palette articulates sensory contrasts between soft and warm, and hard and cool. Inspired by an underwater environment, smooth sweeping surfaces are complimented with delicate, and at moments, sharp edges. The colour scheme is based on a soft colour bed of sandy beiges, coral pinks, and creamy shell tones, which is animated by plunging deep blues, startled by rich orange and turquoise, and highlighted with aqueous light blues and greens. In the same vein, the interior materials and finishes play with contrasts, consisting of heavy natural stones, rich timbers, crystalline materials and coloured glass. Warm materials are illuminated by translucent aqueous features and beaded panels. The flooring moves between the deep grey and green stone from the entry way, to the dark washed timbers in the dining area, and then to the soft creamy carpets of the lounges, punctuated with wavy aqua and salmon patterns. The walls shift from softly illuminated organic forms, to heavily timbered dark burl finishes, in the private dining rooms.

The windows treatments engage with delicate suspended LED light strand curtains, framed by glamorous heavy drapes. Custom-made curvilinear furniture pieces are upholstered in an oceanic tonal colour palette, leathers and soft fabrics. Sailing arms, wrapping edges, curling and repeated oceanic shapes are reminiscent of manta rays, sea turtles and anemones. The upholstery is a variation of crisp white leather, plush coloured velvet cushions and formalised organic patterns. ď ´

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Web Watch DESERT VILLA video architecture simulation

The Desert Villa merges the magical scenery of the desert with the modern architecture of a villa. Film: http://www.studio-aiko.com Architect: Winestein Vaadia Architects Year: 2011 PLAY VIDEO http://vimeo.com/24506451

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