THE PINNACLE
BUILDING FORM
The Pinnacle@Duxton is a 50-storey residential development in Singapore ‘s city center, it defines super-density housing with 1,848 apartment units built on a plot of only 2.5 hectares (6 acres)
The project addresses pragmatic, financial, social issues, and respond sensitively to a myriad of planning constraints. It boldly demonstrates a sustainable and liveable urban high-rise, high – density living and initiates an innovative typology ogpublic communal spaces that are metaphoricallly reclaimed from the air.
It contains seven connected towers that are collectively the world’s tallest public residential buildings, and featuring the two longest sky gardens ever built on skyscrapers, at 500m each.
Residences are designated as special types, S1 and S2, having altogether 35 different unit variations – with dissimilar combinations of features such as extended bays, balconies, bay windows and planter areas and viewing gallery on the 52nd storey provides for special events and VIP state visitors.
#SKYGARDEN
#VERTICALITY
#HORIZONTAL SKYSCRAPER
Zoom + Expansion
Idea is to take a fragment and expand/amplify the scale of the building and modify some of its constitutive features via a critical question
NO STOP CITY
URBAN MODEL
NO STOP//CATATONIC: The preposition had a vision of an sprawl which boundlessly engulfs the industrial modern city, it’s free of territories and barriers, it’s a catatonic being stretched on the terrain, free of limits.
GENERIC GRID //SINGULARITY: The no stop grid is an expansive idea of a city, centered around an order which leaps on to the idea of components governed by the capitalist frame of reference, a radical idea of Cartesian aiming to singularity.
OPEN ENDED//ACCIDENTAL: The dynamics of the elements and subjects is such that it keeps a freedom of shaping as per the brief, which has an accidental nuance, integrating an ordered chaos of dwellings, equipment’s, masses, infrastructure.
ORIGINAL PLANS
HYBRIDS PLANS
ORIGINAL PLANS BLEND
HYBRID PLANS BLEND
Synthesis
Pinnacle + No Stop City
In this exercise, student had to explore their own interpretation of the original No Stop City model through various drawing techniques such as plans, axonometric, 3Ds and collages.
