Permeable Lattice City
WOHA participated in the Vertical CitiesAsia programme organised by the NationalUniversity of Singapore (NUS) as a jury member for the design competition held amongst participating universities and contributed a paper discussing WOHA’s approaches in designing for high-rise,high-density living in tropical/sub-tropical regions.
Based on the competition brief that specified a population density of 100,000people within a 1km2 site, WOHA compared the inner city centre densities of Manhattan, Hong Kong and Singapore and demonstrated that it would take the equivalent of 4 stacks of Manhattan City or 4 stacks of Hong Kong central district or 9stacks of Singapore’s city centre to achieve a population density of 100,000 people one ach 1km2 site. Within this same footprint, it would take 30 nos. of Dubai’s Burj Khalifastacked in 3.3 tiers or 67 nos. of The Met stacked in 3 tiers to meet the live-work-play components of the brief.
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