The Interlace Condo – Clean and Green Living Spaces

The Interlace Condo, Singapore’s latest condo complex has been touted around the world as the new icon for Architectural and Engineering development. These many accolades have been popping up in blogs all round the web and in design magazines worldwide. This latest loft building to be erected in sophisticated Singapore was designed by renowned Ole Scheeren of the architectural firm OMA-Office for Metropolitan Architecture.

The city-state’s traditional form of boxy and rectangular loft buildings will see a dramatic redesign for The Interlace Condo. It is made of 31 apartment buildings built to form a hexagons developed by Capitaland and Hotel Properties. This huge scale development is roughly the size of 16 football fields and will be erected on the southern part of the town. The greenery surrounding Alexandra Road and Ayer Rajah Expressway is the perfect background for this new apartment. The 170,000 meter square compound will house to 1,040 units ranging in size from two or three, three plus study and four bedroom units. Units can be in a townhouse or penthouse style. This eight hectare belt of greenery will stretch from Kent Ridge, Telok Blangah Hill and Mount Faber parks.

This breakthrough design highlights and takes advantage of Singapore’s natural environment. The massive size of the development has permitted designers to incorporate a large number of greenery to give the complex a tropical feel to the over all effect of the venture. Above ground vehicular circulation has been minimized, freeing large green areas within the apartment building itself. The Interlace Condo is more than simply a residential development. The designers have integrated environmental supportability features thru a careful calculation, study and analysis of factors like sun, wind and micro-climate conditions coupled with low-impact passive energy secrets and other energy saving features on site.

The Interlace Condo is a breakaway from the characteristic Singaporean building or skyscraper. Buildings in the city-state are sometimes isolated, vertical house buildings, complexes and towers with almost no outstanding features to distinguish one from the other. This new undertaking takes a different and unique approach to tropical green living as the building complicated is composed of interlinked hexagonal buildings engineered to highlight Singapore’s natural environment. Matching 6 level buildings stacked to form a hexagonal pattern with courtyards and spacious greenery and grassed areas, making this the perfect style to incorporate swimming pools, hanging balconies, sky gardens, miniature parks and rooftop gardens.

When living in close quarters like a residence or condominium complex, privacy can sometimes be compromised. However at the Interlace Condo, privacy is balanced with green open spaces for recreation and lots spacing in between units. There are also other amenities residents can enjoy that were integrated into the natural greenery apart from the amount of indoor and outside recreation areas built for fun and relaxation.

Architect Ole Scheeren expounded that this project’s design addresses the concerns of having to share space with other residents in today’s up to date society. The Interlace Condo responds to the issues of communal living and the desire for having individual needs met simultaneously by giving a variety of recreational spaces specifically built to meet the tropical feel of the apartment and space restriction issues.

This development situated in Gillman Heights site has challenged the traditional way studio buildings and condo buildings have been designed. The Interlace Condo doesn’t only have a dramatic external facade, it has additionally addressed the issue of having green and comfy internal spaces. The name Interlace itself reinforces the sensation of unity between the community while complimenting the encircling natural environment. The Interlace Condo is ready to rise as Singapore’s new landmark.