Prize(s) Honorable Mentions
Lighting Design/Product Company Light Collab
Lead Designers Yah Li Toh
Other Designer's names Desmond Yap, Alanna Tan
Architecture Company Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, DCA Architects
Client Ho Bee Land
Photo Credits ND Photography
Other Credits Landscape architects: Grant Associates
Completion Date December 2023
Project Location 1 North Buona Vista Link, Singapore 139691
Entry DescriptionElementum, part of the One-North innovation district within the Buona Vista neighborhood, and at the center of Singapore’s thriving biomedical industry. The massing of the 12-story structure responds to the unusual shape of its site: Bending around the perimeter in a U-shape, the building will create a distinctive presence and visual marker for the Elementum campus. More than half of the ground level is an atrium space, open to the outdoors—a continuation of the surrounding parks and streets. The podium rises above this outdoor space, encompassing the second and third levels.
The lighting concept strives to elevate the building with a visual floating effect of the building from the podium with uplighting. Detailing at the stepped sky terraces also create an uplight, Client was concerned about maintenance of lighting fittings mouned on the high ceiling of the podium, thus, we have lowered the level of lighting, but integrating spotlights with elliptical beam to illuminate the open areas at the podium. Remaining spotlights mounted just around the sides of the skylights can be accessible from the maintenance access from the back.
Facing part of the railway-turned-greenway called the Rail Corridor, pole lights gently lit the cycling and walking paths and form a seamless integration with the rail corridor.
Sustainability ApproachAble to achieve Singapore's Greenmark Platinum for sustainability standards.
