Oasia Hotel Downtown, Singapore (Time Lapse : September 2015 - 2016)

A verdant tower of green in the heart of Singapore’s dense Central Business District (CBD), Oasia Hotel Downtown is a prototype of land use intensification for the urban tropics. This tropical “living tower” offers an alternative image to the sleek technology of the genre. Landscaping is used extensively as an architectural surface treatment and forms a major part of the development’s material palette both internally and externally, achieving an overall Green Plot Ratio of 1,100%. The tower’s red aluminum mesh cladding is designed as a backdrop that reveals itself in between a total of 21 species of creepers to ensure the green facade is always lush and resilient during different weather conditions. Arrangement of different species on elevation is according to their preference of sunlight, resilience to wind and growth speed to maximize their adaptability. Time Lapse Photographer: Keith Loutit (Small World Photography Pte. Ltd.)