A swirling green roof tops the gorgeous Nanyang Technical University in Singapore

If art school was in our future we might opt to study under, or on top of, the amazing <a href="http://inhabitat.com/green-roof/">green roof</a> at the School of Art, Design and Media at <a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/Pages/home.aspx">Nanyang Technological University in Singapore</a>. This five-storey facility sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form that blends landscape and structure, nature and high-tech and symbolizes the creativity it houses.

This amazing design by CPG Consultants seems to offer a new experience at every elevation or perspective fulfilling the intent that a school for art should inspire creativity.

The glass walls provide a visual exchange between indoors and out allowing students and teachers to experience the building, the surrounding landscape and the interior plaza as fluid spaces.

Concrete walls and columns, cement-sand screeded floors, timber railings and a neutral palette define the interior spaces which vary in shape and size.

The roofs serve as informal gathering spaces challenging linear ideas and stirring perception.

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The roofs create open space, insulate the building, cool the surrounding air and harvest rainwater for landscaping irrigation.

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Finishes are intentionally raw to act as a backdrop for the art, media and design projects.

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The glass façade provides a high performance building envelope that reduces solar gain and heat load while allowing the benefits of natural views and daylight into creative spaces.

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