Eco Factor: National Heart Center in Singapore to offset carbon with indoor gardens.
Multinational architecture firm Broadway Malyan has released the masterplan for a 35,299-square-meter building, which will serve as Singapore’s National Heart Center. The grand plan will take shape at the center of Singapore General Hospital’s Outram Campus and will host some green features to make the patients and their relatives feel close to nature.
Since the medical world sees frequent advancements, the building design makes use of modular building methods to make the architecture flexible and allow timely and untimely growth. The open architecture reduces energy consumption by allowing maximum daylight all along the concourse and the reception area. The first six floors of the building will contain medical facilities and operation theaters and the other four floors will be used for research and staff training.
Apart from a sunlit interior space, the heart center will incorporate floating green gardens which provide social connective and natural ventilation. The plants will provide clean air by filtering out carbon dioxide and will also reduce the amount of energy required to keep the interiors cool. The £73 million Heart Center is scheduled to be completed by the second half of 2012.
Via: Inhabitat/WorldArchitectureNews
