No. 1 Moulmein Rise
WOHA’s first high-rise reinvents the tropical tower through re-imagining the curtain wall as a climatic device. Here, the bay window element allows the cool winds of the monsoon to naturally ventilate contemporary apartments even when it is raining. The monsoon window reinterprets in aluminium a bamboo device from the Borneo longhouses. The monsoon window is incorporated into a composition of repeated different functional facade elements – planter boxes, overhangs, sunshades – a design strategy of repeated, artfully distributed components which has been explored in subsequent projects.