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Kent Vale Block 3
Building
Completed
2012
Residential
All-Concrete
86.8 m / 285 ft
24
76
3
2.5 m/s
Proposed
Construction Start
Completed
The Design Engineer is usually involved in the front end design, typically taking the leadership role in the Schematic Design and Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The Design Engineer is usually involved in the front end design, typically taking the leadership role in the Schematic Design and Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
Other Consultant refers to other organizations which provided significant consultation services for a building project (e.g. wind consultants, environmental consultants, fire and life safety consultants, etc).
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Usually involved in the front end design, with a "typical" condition being that of a leadership role through either Schematic Design or Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The Design Engineer is usually involved in the front end design, typically taking the leadership role in the Schematic Design and Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The Design Engineer is usually involved in the front end design, typically taking the leadership role in the Schematic Design and Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The main contractor is the supervisory contractor of all construction work on a project, management of sub-contractors and vendors, etc. May be referred to as "Construction Manager," however, for consistency CTBUH uses the term "Main Contractor" exclusively.
Other Consultant refers to other organizations which provided significant consultation services for a building project (e.g. wind consultants, environmental consultants, fire and life safety consultants, etc).
An addition to the existing faculty apartments on the campus of the National University of Singapore, Kent Vale was designed to be an iconic gateway building, where the realms of domesticity and civic monumentality would meet. The challenge of the brief lay in the melding of two distinct uses: firstly, as a new administrative center, where architecture should present itself as a statement of the client’s vision for a new campus ideal; secondly, as a quiet oasis for residents to interact and enjoy.
This tropical high-rise is notable for its adventurous use of high rise greenery. The facade, though intricate, is not merely decorative. Solar gain through the façade is minimized via optimum building orientation, strategic sun-shading by modular green walls, balconies, and screens on the east and west facing facades, and horizontal sun-shading of all facades. The design of Kent Vale presents the culmination of sustained analytical design, melding function, sustainability and constructability in a highly resolved architectural form.
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