Gardens by the Bay Master Plan (Second Part)

The Fall view

The work was not just done on the facade of the greenhouses, inside the Cloud Forest one can find big green developments one of this is Waterfall, in which the main concept is Mountain Kinabalu and on the way one can have a pleasant experience, at the beginning one can learn about environmental problems, habitat loss and statistics about the Earth inside The Earth Check; continuing with the Mountain experience one can enjoy the different views along a small bridge that sorrounds it known as the TreeTop Walk; some stalactites and stalagmites are developed in the interior to have a more complete experience at Crystal Mountain, almost at the end of our journey one can find plants that only exist in The Cavern; Cloud Walk is the closest place where one can find plants that only grow on the mountain sides and will find insects and plants that live 2000 m above the sea level at The Lost World, besides being the highest point inside the CLoud forest one can enjoy the most beautiful views of the greenhouse.

 And by the end of the journey one can find The Secret Garden below the ground level, where there is a large diversity of plants coming from the most alternative places imaginable, from Chile to Australia.

The Cloud Forest´s Sketch

Photograph by eyesthruthelens on flickr

The development of The Supertree Grove shows us how complex it can be to try to imitate nature, following the basic elements that a natural tree posesses, The Supertree Grove is made of three parts: The concrete core reinforcement that upholds the vertical structure, The Truck that is the steel frame connected to the concrete core Reinforcement to support the tree´s skin, the planting panels that will be responsible for the growth of living skin and the canopy that is responsible for the branched shape, it is assembled to the rest of the Supertree Grove. With a total of 18 elements, these  can measure between 25 and 50 mts in height, this represents between 9 and 16 floors of a building, this measurements provide scale and dimension according to the gardens sorrounding them and keep the balance with the highest buildings inside Marina Bay; 11 of these manage to integrate sustainable elements like photovoltaic cells to collect sun light.

The Supertree Grove

Photograph by Jian Wei Poon

The Supertree Grove 

The Dragonfly and Kingfisher lake are the main key for the biodiversity balance that exists around it , as it was designed to integrate functions for a live ecosystem, conducting water filtration functions from the gardens as well as creating aquatic ecosystems that assist in filtering the water in the lakes which is later used in the Marina reservoir. Throughout its 440 mts of boardwalk by the lake one can discover the largest landscapes that arise along the horizon.

The Dragonfly and Kingfisher Lake

Photograph by monikafebliani on blogger

Gardens by The Bay is definitely an architectural example of an ecosystem and the fragility that exists when the human being tries to transform it, raising awareness of the value of the plants for the proper functioning of the ecosystem and manifesting the vital importance of water  as well as the quality of the later. Not only does Singapur invest in their environmental culture but also invests in the environmental education with which they guarantee a cleaner  and more responsible future.

White Hat Architecture suggests reading Gardens by the Bay Master Plan (First Part) to learn more about  the rest of the project.

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