Oasis Terraces is a neighbourhood centre built around a stepped garden
Serie Architects and Multiply Architects have completed a community centre and health clinic in Singapore, which incorporates a communal terraced garden overlooking a canal.
London-based Serie Architects worked with locally based office Multiply Architects to design Oasis Terraces for Singapore's Housing and Development Board (HDB), which was seeking a new model for community centres to serve its public housing neighbourhoods.
The building is located on the banks of the waterway in the densely populated Punggol area, and comprises communal facilities, restaurants and shops, alongside a government polyclinic.
The structure's open facades reference the design of the surrounding housing blocks and are intended to lend the building a sense of openness that emphasises its public-serving purpose.
"Our design is informed by the open frames commonly found in the facades and corridors of the HDB housing blocks of the 1970s and 1980s," said Serie Architects principal, Christopher Lee.
"We've transformed this precedent into a light and open frame that captures and accommodates diverse programmes for the community in a landscape setting ? it is an architectural framework for communal life to unfold."
At the heart of the community centre is a series of stepped garden terraces that slope down towards the water and accommodate various communal amenities, including gathering places, playgrounds and a natural amphitheatre.
Rooms and outdoor areas arranged around the ...
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