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- Nanyang Technical University Singapore, Green RoofIf 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.1
- Nanyang Technical University Singapore, Green RoofThis 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.2
- Nanyang Technical University SingaporeThe 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.3
- Nanyang Technical University Singapore, Green RoofConcrete walls and columns, cement-sand screeded floors, timber railings and a neutral palette define the interior spaces which vary in shape and size.4
- Nanyang Technical University Singapore, Green RoofThe roofs serve as informal gathering spaces challenging linear ideas and stirring perception.5
- Nanyang Technical University Singapore, Green RoofThe 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. 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. Diffused natural daylight is abundant throughout studios and classrooms, filtered through the surrounding foliage....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/amazing-green-roof-art-school-in-singapore/'>READ ARTICLE</a>6
- Nanyang Technical University Singapore, Night photoThe roofs create open space, insulate the building, cool the surrounding air and harvest rainwater for landscaping irrigation.7
- Nanyang Technical University Singapore, Section DrawingThe 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. 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. Diffused natural daylight is abundant throughout studios and classrooms, filtered through the surrounding foliage....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/amazing-green-roof-art-school-in-singapore/'>READ ARTICLE</a>8
- Nanyang Technical University Singapore, Plan DrawingThe 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. 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. Diffused natural daylight is abundant throughout studios and classrooms, filtered through the surrounding foliage....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/amazing-green-roof-art-school-in-singapore/'>READ ARTICLE</a>9
- Nanyang Technical University Singapore, architect's renderingThe 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. 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. Diffused natural daylight is abundant throughout studios and classrooms, filtered through the surrounding foliage....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/amazing-green-roof-art-school-in-singapore/'>READ ARTICLE</a>10
- Nanyang Technical University Singapore, Green RoofThe 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. 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. Diffused natural daylight is abundant throughout studios and classrooms, filtered through the surrounding foliage....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/amazing-green-roof-art-school-in-singapore/'>READ ARTICLE</a>11
- Nanyang Technical University Singapore, Green RoofFinishes are intentionally raw to act as a backdrop for the art, media and design projects.12
- Nanyang Technical University SingaporeThe 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. 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. Diffused natural daylight is abundant throughout studios and classrooms, filtered through the surrounding foliage....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/amazing-green-roof-art-school-in-singapore/'>READ ARTICLE</a>13
- Nanyang Technical University Singapore, Green RoofThe 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.14
- Nanyang Technical University Singapore, Green RoofThe 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. 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. Diffused natural daylight is abundant throughout studios and classrooms, filtered through the surrounding foliage....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/amazing-green-roof-art-school-in-singapore/'>READ ARTICLE</a>15
- Nanyang Technical University SingaporeThe 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. 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. Diffused natural daylight is abundant throughout studios and classrooms, filtered through the surrounding foliage....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/amazing-green-roof-art-school-in-singapore/'>READ ARTICLE</a>16
- Nanyang Technical University Singapore, Green RoofThe 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. 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. Diffused natural daylight is abundant throughout studios and classrooms, filtered through the surrounding foliage....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/amazing-green-roof-art-school-in-singapore/'>READ ARTICLE</a>17