Ng Teng Fong and Jurong
By himmelzimmer
An international competition undertaken in association with HOK and CPG, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital consists of a 707 bed general hospital and an adjacent 286 bed community hospital, in the Jurong township of Singapore. The ultimate objective was to create a ‘hospital without walls’: a health-care facility that is for the community and of the community, offering high-quality, affordable care to all Singaporeans.
The objective was to integrate the large-scale public building into the dense urban context. The site plan incorporates a community park and floating green roof terraces that link two existing green boulevards and continuing an urban parkway system.
To provide every patient with a window the design staggers the wall arrangements, giving the hospital tower exteriors a sculptured, textured appearance. Maximising natural ventilation and day-lighting generated the organic form of the ward towers, with vertical sunshades animating the glass curtain wall.
The hospital wanted to achieve Singapore’s Greenmark Platinum - this outstanding environmental energy performance is created in symbiosis with an outstanding patient and person centric design that improves healing, creates well-being and connects every person to the world of gardens and nature even in the highest care facility.
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himmelzimmer is an architectural design practice in Melbourne dedicated to investigating an architecture that evolves from a continuous dialogue of imaginative and practical thinking.
As a studio we need to be able to define what building/design we aspire to the most:
For us this is ‘a room in the sky’, a ‘himmelzimmer’.
From its open window we can see the endless sky encouraging us that our ideas should be dream-like without boundaries. With its window closed we can focus on the work on our desk in front of us, the technical delivery of our ideas.
All our designs evolve from the dialogue of these two perspectives which are both essential in the delivery of well-executed buildings that inspire and transcend the ordinary.
Our work is at its most successful where our window to the world is in a constant state of in-between, where it is simultaneously closed and open.
We started in 2003 as studio505.
Following studio505’s closure in 2016 we are continuing our work as himmelzimmer
- Year founded2016
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