Gardens by the Bay

source: highlike

Photographer: Craig Sheppard
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source: grant-associates

At 54 Hectares Bay South is the first and largest of three planned gardens at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. Grant Associates has masterplanned the whole of Bay South, leading a core British design team to worldwide success. Our vision was to blend nature, technology, environmental management and imagination to create a 21st century focus for tropical horticulture and a unique destination experience.

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18 Supertrees (25-50m high) to act as iconic vertical gardens; Aerial walkway and treetop bar offers unique views of the Gardens; 2 giant Cooled Conservatories housing plants from Mediterranean and tropical Montane regions of the world; Indoor mountain offering tropical rainforest experience
Spectacular nightly light and sound shows; 4 Heritage Gardens reflecting Singapore’s cultural links with plants; 6 World of Plants Gardens showcasing the biodiversity of plant life on our planet
Dragonfly Lake and Dragonfly Bridge; Numerous sculptures and architectural structures
Intelligent environmental infrastructure.

Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay, the dramatic leisure destination designed by UK landscape architects Grant Associates, has welcomed over one million visitors in its first two months including the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Now the scheme has been shortlisted for two World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards, which is to be staged in Singapore for the first time next month (3-5 October 2012).
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Over one million people have already visited Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay since its completion on 29 June 2012 by a design team led by UK landscape architects, Grant Associates.

This includes the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s visit to Gardens by the Bay on Wednesday 12 September as part of their Asia Pacific tour celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubliee. They toured the Cloud Forest Cooled Conservatory, Supertrees Grove, planted a tree and met the design team.

Now, thousands of architects from around the world are being given a prime opportunity to visit Gardens by the Bay, when the World Architecture Festival (WAF) is held in Asia for the first time at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore from 3-5 October 2012. Gardens by the Bay is shortlisted for 2 World Architecture Festival Awards in the Completed Urban Landscape Design and Display categories. Winners will be announced in Singapore on 5th October 2012.

At 101 hectares, Gardens by the Bay will eventually be one of the largest gardens of its kind in the world comprising Bay South, Bay East and Bay Central. Grant Associates was responsible for master planning the first and largest of the three planned gardens, Bay South, which stretches over 54 hectares and opened in June 2012. Bay East and Bay Central are yet to be completed.

A remarkable blend of nature, technology, environmental management and imagination, highlights of Bay South include 18 Supertrees (25-50 metre vertical gardens that light up at night) and two giant Cooled Conservatories, designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, housing Mediterranean and Tropical climate plants. The project also includes a rich variety of Horticultural Gardens, designed around the themes ‘Plants and People’ and ‘Plants and Planet’.

Teamwork key to the success

Alongside lead designers Grant Associates, the British design team for Bay South included Wilkinson Eyre Architects (architects); Atelier Ten (environmental design consultants); Atelier One (structural engineers); Land Design Studio (museum and visitor centre designers); Thomas Matthews (communication designers). Squint Opera (animations) and Buro 4 (design management).

This team was supported by a number of Singapore Consultants including CPG (architecture, civils and structures, M&E), Meinhardt Infrastructure (civils and structures), Langdon Seah (cost consultants), LPA (lighting design), PMLink (project management) and WET (irrigation).

The client, National Parks Board of Singapore, and the Gardens by the Bay project team were instrumental in delivering the world class collections of plants.

A growing force in Asian landscape architecture

Gardens by the Bay is one of a series of significant landscape architecture projects that Grant Associates is currently working on in Singapore and throughout Asia. These include the landscape masterplan for TRX in Kuala Lumpur with Machado and Silvetti Associates; the landscape and public realm design for Capitol in Singapore with Richard Meier and Partners; Raffles City in Shenzhen with Benoy; and an environmental tourism study for Endau Rompin National Park in Malaysia with PEERS Consult.
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source: mbmercedes-benz

A standout example of sustainable city planning for the past few decades, Singapore originally had to make a virtue of necessity due to its unique geographic location. An island by nature, the city state always had a key limiting factor – lack of land for expansion. So it should come as no surprise that any planning exercise would assign this rare good special significance and pride of place. From the beginning, safeguarding the local flora and fauna as well as creating sufficient green spaces and recreational areas for its citizens has played a huge part in Singapore’s urban planning. The result: despite its many skyscrapers, the city is Asia’s greenest metropolis. And always striving to improve its residents’ quality of life, planners continue to emphasize the positive effect of urban oases.

This vision of a modern global metropolis with aspects of a natural retreat – a city nestling within a garden – is about to become reality with Singapore’s latest verdant attraction, the Gardens by the Bay. A true 21st century botanical garden right in the heart of town, it literally extends its tendrils into the city. The approx. 54-hectare area at Marina Bay, in parts reclaimed from the sea, delights with a horticultural mosaic, celebrating the diversity of species and cultures on display. In addition, it boasts two futuristic conservatories, as well as a grove of giant high-tech trees covered in flora – the park’s striking main attractions.

These 18 “Supertrees” reach heights between 25 and 50 meters – and even exceed their natural wood and bark equivalents in terms of ecological impact. Far more than just impressive vertical gardens playing host to more than 163,000 plants and over 200 species, they double as environmental marvels that capture solar energy to air-condition the two conservatories, for example. At the same time, visitors can explore an expansive network of paths between the Supertrees’ crowns to experience the park and its attractions, but also the city itself, from a brand new perspective. And the two conservatories – with their award-winning, elegantly sweeping architecture – please the eye with a selection of plants from around the world. While the flatter of the two glass domes, the Flower Dome, delights with a Mediterranean to subtropical wealth of flowers, the nearby Cloud Forest Dome houses a tropical, vertical forest of wonders as well as the world’s highest man-made indoor waterfall, tumbling down from 30 meters.

Designed to drive any thought of the nearby urban conurbation far from any visitor’s mind, the gardens also serve to remind us of the preciousness of nature and its rich wealth of species. Devised by British landscape architects Grant Associates, the final concept reflects Singapore’s own national flower, the orchid.

On hand to discuss this impressive project and his motivation for taking its lead, Dr. Kiat W. Tan joins us for an interview. Not only the project’s CEO, but also an internationally renowned botanist and orchid specialist, Tan has been one of the key driving forces behind Singapore’s ambition to rebalance modern city life with revitalizing nature for the past three decades. He has been with Gardens by the Bay since 2006 – back then as a member of the jury who greenlighted the park’s current guise and intent.
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source: newparkculture

Под руководством английского архитектурного бюро Wilkinson Eyre и Grant Associates трудилась команда специалистов со всего мира. На территории 54 га на набережной разбит парк с двумя оранжереями, которые для поддержания необходимого микроклимата необходимо охлаждать, а не отапливать, как в обычных случаях.

Одна оранжерея содержит образцы растительности средиземноморского климата, а в другой расположен вертикальный сад горных тропиков с искусственными водопадами. Стеклянные оранжереи отражают солнечное тепло, но пропускают солнечный свет, они оснащены системами автоматической внешней защиты от проникновения солнечных лучей, которые выполнены в виде парусов, выдвигающихся только при необходимости. Вытяжной нагретый воздух выходит наружу через вентиляционные отверстия, оформленные в виде футуристических деревьев. 18 таких конструкций, разбросанных по парку, озеленены 160 видами растений, всего в парке и оранжереях произрастает 246 тысяч растений со всех регионов планеты, кроме Антарктики.

Инженерные деревья выполняют функцию смотровых башен, два самых высоких из них соединены пешеходным мостом, а на крыше одного из них расположено кафе. Другие деревья оснащены солнечными батареями для электроснабжения ночной иллюминации и солнечными коллекторами для нагрева горячей воды. Кроме того, инженерные деревья служат для сбора дождевой воды, который осуществляется и со зданий оранжерей, напоминающих по своей форме морские раковины. Вся сточная вода обрабатывается в биотопных прудах, эко-система которых полностью очищает воду биологическими средствами.

Энергоснабжение оранжерейно-паркового комплекса производится с помощью древесной биомассы. Владельцем парка является Управление Парками Сингапура, которое направляет все обрезанные и собранные ветви на острове для сжигания в ТЭЦ парка. Попутное тепло служит для регенерации жидкости, служащей для предварительного подсушивания поступающего в оранжереи воздуха, благодаря чему требуется меньше энергии для охлаждения сухого воздуха по сравнению с влажным. Зола, оставшаяся после сжигания невостребованной древесины, используется в качестве удобрения в парке.

Такой выдающийся по технологическим и эстетическим параметрам проект экологической значимости Gardens By The Bay демонстрирует жителям Сингапура и туристам значимость растений в жизнеспособности планеты и рассказывает об угрозах глобального потепления климата.
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source: goooodhk

Gardens by the Bay项目是新加坡最大的海滨发展景观项目，由国家支持。新加坡国家公园局和来 自英国的世界级景观事务所Grant Associates通力合作完成。花园有两个大温室，一个是荫凉干爽 的环境，一个是潮湿荫凉的环境，还有众多主题园，植物园，里面种植着来自世界各地的成千上万 植物。这个公园中最让人印象深刻的要素是一些高25米—50米的树状结构，上面成长着垂直花园。
攀缘植物，附生植物还有蕨类植物成长在上面。白天，这些结构带来荫凉，夜晚，这些结构发出光 辉。一条飘逸曲折的人行桥凌空穿梭在这些结构间，给人们全新的视野，让大家可以观赏到海湾全 景。

这个工程也是世界上最大的景观工程之一，101公顷的面积包含三个不同的花园：南湾，东湾，中 湾。在展现最好的园艺和园林艺术同时，为本地和国际游客提供一个美好的去处，并极大的提升新 加坡的国际形象。

伟大的跨国合作，一个自然与科技完美结合的项目。

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