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Scotts Tower

SCOTTS TOWER 

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Scotts Tower
© Darren Soh
Scotts Tower
© Darren Soh

ARCHITECTS
UNStudio

LOCATION
Singpore

PROJECT YEAR
2018

CATEGORY
Apartments

PHOTOGRAPHS
Darren Soh

AREA
16855.34 m2

Scotts Tower
© Darren Soh

Text description provided by architect.

The Scotts Tower is situated on a prime location in Singapore, close to the Orchard Road luxury shopping district and with views encompassing both nearby parkland and the panoramic cityscape of Singapore City.

The 18,500m2, 31-storey, 231-unit tower consists of 1 to 3-bedroom apartments and 4-bedroom penthouses, along with expansive landscaped gardens, sky terraces, penthouse roof gardens and a variety of recreational facilities.

Scotts Tower
© Darren Soh
Scotts Tower
© Darren Soh

BEN VAN BERKEL

An interesting facet of The Scotts Tower is the way that it reacts to the urban context of Singapore.

Instead of the more usual means of planning a city horizontally, we have created neighbourhoods in the sky: a vertical city where each zone has its own distinct identity."

VERTICAL CITY & HOME

The design concept of The Scotts Tower is that of a vertical city incorporating a variety of residence types and scales. The tower is divided into four different residential clusters, denoted as ‘neighbourhoods’.

Scotts Tower
© Darren Soh
Scotts Tower
© Darren Soh
Scotts Tower
© Darren Soh

Within each of these neighbourhoods, individual identity is given to each unit by means of type, scale, distribution and articulation of outdoor space and the possibility for personalisation of the interior layout.

Terraces unique to each unit type further enhance the personalised feel.

BEN VAN BERKEL

"The balconies, combined with the zoning of the individually framed neighbourhoods, in The Scotts Tower create different scales of detail in the structure; both intricate, smaller details and larger gestural details. In The Scotts Tower the balconies form part of the interior furniture."

Scotts Tower
© Darren Soh
Scotts Tower
© Darren Soh
Scotts Tower
© Darren Soh

FRAME

The nearby green area to the West of the tower is extended into The Scotts Tower site initially by means of a ground level landscape concept designed by Sitetectonix.

This ground level concept incorporates a multi-layered environment which links together the different zones and recreational facilities available to the residents.

 The vertical city concept along with the green areas are bound together by two gestures: the ‘vertical frame’ and the ‘sky frames.’

Scotts Tower
© Darren Soh
Scotts Tower
© Darren Soh

The vertical frame organises the tower in an urban manner.

It unites the tower into one ‘vertical city’, but also provides clear distinctions between the four residential clusters, providing the neighbourhood effect.

Scotts Tower
© Darren Soh
Scotts Tower
© Darren Soh

The sky frame – at the lobby (level 1 and 2) and sky terrace (level 25) – organise the amenity spaces and green areas of the tower and provide areas with panoramic views.

The communal nature of these spaces also encourages interaction among users, enhancing the neighbourhood concept.

Scotts Tower
© Darren Soh
Scotts Tower
© Darren Soh

LOBBY DESIGN

A verdant landscape unifies the communal outdoor spaces.

An extension of this quality, through the use of natural materials, was the primary design intention for the lift lobbies of the tower.

Scotts Tower
© Darren Soh
Scotts Tower
© Darren Soh

Marble tiles are arranged on the floor in a random pattern and extend upwards on the lower part of the lobby walls to extend the space.

Above this, curvilinear wooden ribbons fold on to the ceiling and span across the lobby, connecting both ends and introducing motion and residential warmth into the space.


Scotts Tower
Analysis diagram
Scotts Tower
Analysis diagram


Scotts Tower
Analysis diagram

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