Vertical Gardens Tower

Oasia Hotel designed by WOHA Architects is a vertical garden that truly stands out from its immediate neighbourhood. By having planting climbing throughout the structure, it managed to have 1,000% more plant life than could have existed on the original plot of land. The architects wish to bring back nature into the concrete jungle.

Oasis Downtown

The award winning architectural firm of WOHA has once again challenges the mind of Singaporean with their Oasis Downtown project. The entire tower is blanketed with landscaping to express the sensibilities of tropical architecture. There are many existing buildings that were designed with vertical landscaping in mind, but never once that we come across a building which the entire structure from base to the top is clad not with aluminum panels but with landscape. Through this building, WOHA is experimenting with a new language of architecture that is perhaps more relevant to design skyscraper in this part of the world. 

WOHA's Solution to High Density Living In Asia

The Met

Designed by the Singaporean architect WOHA and located in Bangkok, Thailand. 

Bangkok is a typical Asian city where chaos reigns supreme above all else. At first glance, one will find everything to be in total disorder without any conceivable master planning. Ironically it is this chaotic phenomenon that differentiates Asian cities from the West. Modernism is the creation of the West and was imposed upon Asian cities regardless of the local culture and climate. As a result we see substantial amount of modern skyscrapers that were designed in the comfort of the studio without full understanding of the context of the site. 

The Met however takes into consideration the tropical climate to design a high rise residential building that not only will add to the architectural asset of the city but also provide comfort to the inhabitants. The rectilinear block is punched with multiple openings to provide ventilation and lighting at intervals in order for the communal sky courts to work better. This insertion of voids in the solid box has made the single tower looks as if it is consists of 3 separate towers link together with bridges at several intervals along its height.