Planet Architecture Festival 2015: Ole Scheeren has won World Constructing of the 12 months 2015 for The Interlace, a series of apartment blocks stacked diagonally across one another to frame terraces and gardens.
Conceived as the antithesis to tower blocks, The Interlace is manufactured up of 31 apartment buildings that have been organized and stacked in a honeycomb arrangement to frame eight huge hexagonal courtyards.
Scheeren led the task, which occupies a web site in Singapore, although working at Rem Koolhaas’ firm OMA. He now runs his personal Beijing-based mostly studio, Buro Ole Scheeren.
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Speaking to Dezeen in an unique interview final 12 months, he described The Interlace as a “blatant reversal of a typology”.
“Housing has turn out to be just compressed into a very standardised format. I believe this venture exhibits in a truly dramatic way, and also in a considerable scale, that anything else is feasible,” he stated.
6-storey blocks are stacked up in twos, threes and fours, creating three peaks of 24 storeys. The huge multi-storey voids amongst blocks allow light and ventilation across the website.
The venture beat sixteen other category winners announced on day one particular and day two of the festival, including a bamboo local community centre in Vietnam and a domed transport hub in New York.
Final 12 months the Globe Constructing of the Year award went to The Chapel local community centre by a21 studio, which was created employing recycled resources and colourful fabric. In an interview with Dezeen, architect Toan Nghiem described the project as a “big colourful lantern”.
Dezeen is media companion for each the Planet Architecture Festival and Inside Festival, which concluded right now at the Marina Bay Sands hotel and conference centre in Singapore.
Photography is by Iwan Baan.
