The design of Jardin incorporates two main ideas—a vertical garden setting and the French notion of living. These concepts are pivotal architectural form-generators and encapsulate new pleasures of high-rise living and modern lifestyles. Extending the desire of enjoying a garden setting in front of one’s abode, Jardin allows this simple pleasure of living in a garden to be materialised in a high-rise environment, by literally bringing gardens right up in the sky.
In Jardin, where architecture and landscape merge into a living environment, the pleasure of living in a high-rise garden environment is materialised. At each alternate level, extensive gardens extend from the loft units, serving as deep communal balconies. Besides functionally providing shade and buffer from city noise, these gardens connect the units’ living spaces, allowing for use as social spaces.
The experience of the scenic gardenscape begins upon entry to the development, where residents and visitors are greeted by a green terrain that berms and elevates the building. The combination of French and garden themes epitomises the spirit of this exciting residential property, that of providing quality and tasteful living amid clever landscape design that challenges the conventional notions of residential landscaping.
To compensate for a ten-storey height constraint, the Jardin’s design utilises large floor plates and a lengthy building perimeter in an exploration that merges communal landscape with high-density urban living.
By negotiating planning code guidelines and the relationships between softscape and hardscape, extensive facade-length terraces have been built into every alternating level to create double-height garden spaces accessible to each of the building’s residences. A number of techniques in the landscape design are explored to provide a blend of experiences by which the garden evolves about a user; these implementations of natural spatial development have the potential to establish new forms of high-density urban living in the tropics.
Such practices of garden design include serial vision, developed by architect and urban designer Gordon Cullen in the English Townscape movement, which considers the garden as a sequence of spaces that reveal themselves to a meanderer in succession: in the Jardin, garden elements—green walls or feature walls—serve as focal points for the reorientation of the visitor along various axes of travel; shafts of natural sunlight are employed to vary visibility. The complexities of the garden channel a sensory journey.
Fostering community has always been a crucial element to garden planning. Projecting gardens at alternating levels of the Jardin serve as communal ‘green balconies’—sites of social interchange in the open air. The roof hosts a club and recreation garden with a collection of event pavilions that also intend to cultivate gatherings.
Jardin’s 18,000sqm, ten-storey block offers 140 units with accessibility to these extensive garden spaces as well as the 8,600sqm site’s landscaping. The units vary among eight different floor plans ranging in size from 70sqm to 150sqm.
In the design of these highrise gardens, a multitude of contemporary lifestyles and desires is encapsulated—luncheon on the grass; dining in the garden; a lazy Sunday afternoon slouching in the shady cabana; parties on roof or garden decks; and open-air showers.
The design of Jardin incorporates two main ideas—a vertical garden setting and the French notion of living. These concepts are pivotal architectural form-generators and encapsulate new pleasures of high-rise living and modern lifestyles. Extending the desire of enjoying a garden setting in front of one’s abode, Jardin allows this simple pleasure of living in a garden to be materialised in a high-rise environment, by literally bringing gardens right up in the sky.
In Jardin, where architecture and landscape merge into a living environment, the pleasure of living in a high-rise garden environment is materialised. At each alternate level, extensive gardens extend from the loft units, serving as deep communal balconies. Besides functionally providing shade and buffer from city noise, these gardens connect the units’ living spaces, allowing for use as social spaces.
The experience of the scenic gardenscape begins upon entry to the development, where residents and visitors are greeted by a green terrain that berms and elevates the building. The combination of French and garden themes epitomises the spirit of this exciting residential property, that of providing quality and tasteful living amid clever landscape design that challenges the conventional notions of residential landscaping.
To compensate for a ten-storey height constraint, the Jardin’s design utilises large floor plates and a lengthy building perimeter in an exploration that merges communal landscape with high-density urban living.
By negotiating planning code guidelines and the relationships between softscape and hardscape, extensive facade-length terraces have been built into every alternating level to create double-height garden spaces accessible to each of the building’s residences. A number of techniques in the landscape design are explored to provide a blend of experiences by which the garden evolves about a user; these implementations of natural spatial development have the potential to establish new forms of high-density urban living in the tropics.
Such practices of garden design include serial vision, developed by architect and urban designer Gordon Cullen in the English Townscape movement, which considers the garden as a sequence of spaces that reveal themselves to a meanderer in succession: in the Jardin, garden elements—green walls or feature walls—serve as focal points for the reorientation of the visitor along various axes of travel; shafts of natural sunlight are employed to vary visibility. The complexities of the garden channel a sensory journey.
Fostering community has always been a crucial element to garden planning. Projecting gardens at alternating levels of the Jardin serve as communal ‘green balconies’—sites of social interchange in the open air. The roof hosts a club and recreation garden with a collection of event pavilions that also intend to cultivate gatherings.
Jardin’s 18,000sqm, ten-storey block offers 140 units with accessibility to these extensive garden spaces as well as the 8,600sqm site’s landscaping. The units vary among eight different floor plans ranging in size from 70sqm to 150sqm.
In the design of these highrise gardens, a multitude of contemporary lifestyles and desires is encapsulated—luncheon on the grass; dining in the garden; a lazy Sunday afternoon slouching in the shady cabana; parties on roof or garden decks; and open-air showers.
The design of Jardin incorporates two main ideas—a vertical garden setting and the French notion of living. These concepts are pivotal architectural form-generators and encapsulate new pleasures of high-rise living and modern lifestyles. Extending the desire of enjoying a garden setting in front of one’s abode, Jardin allows this simple pleasure of living in a garden to be materialised in a high-rise environment, by literally bringing gardens right up in the sky.
In Jardin, where architecture and landscape merge into a living environment, the pleasure of living in a high-rise garden environment is materialised. At each alternate level, extensive gardens extend from the loft units, serving as deep communal balconies. Besides functionally providing shade and buffer from city noise, these gardens connect the units’ living spaces, allowing for use as social spaces.
The experience of the scenic gardenscape begins upon entry to the development, where residents and visitors are greeted by a green terrain that berms and elevates the building. The combination of French and garden themes epitomises the spirit of this exciting residential property, that of providing quality and tasteful living amid clever landscape design that challenges the conventional notions of residential landscaping.
To compensate for a ten-storey height constraint, the Jardin’s design utilises large floor plates and a lengthy building perimeter in an exploration that merges communal landscape with high-density urban living.
By negotiating planning code guidelines and the relationships between softscape and hardscape, extensive facade-length terraces have been built into every alternating level to create double-height garden spaces accessible to each of the building’s residences. A number of techniques in the landscape design are explored to provide a blend of experiences by which the garden evolves about a user; these implementations of natural spatial development have the potential to establish new forms of high-density urban living in the tropics.
Such practices of garden design include serial vision, developed by architect and urban designer Gordon Cullen in the English Townscape movement, which considers the garden as a sequence of spaces that reveal themselves to a meanderer in succession: in the Jardin, garden elements—green walls or feature walls—serve as focal points for the reorientation of the visitor along various axes of travel; shafts of natural sunlight are employed to vary visibility. The complexities of the garden channel a sensory journey.
Fostering community has always been a crucial element to garden planning. Projecting gardens at alternating levels of the Jardin serve as communal ‘green balconies’—sites of social interchange in the open air. The roof hosts a club and recreation garden with a collection of event pavilions that also intend to cultivate gatherings.
Jardin’s 18,000sqm, ten-storey block offers 140 units with accessibility to these extensive garden spaces as well as the 8,600sqm site’s landscaping. The units vary among eight different floor plans ranging in size from 70sqm to 150sqm.
In the design of these highrise gardens, a multitude of contemporary lifestyles and desires is encapsulated—luncheon on the grass; dining in the garden; a lazy Sunday afternoon slouching in the shady cabana; parties on roof or garden decks; and open-air showers.