World's Tallest Indoor Waterfall Revealed Inside Safdie Architects' Singapore Airport Building
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Singapore's soon to open Jewel Changi Airport, designed by Moshe Safdie's architecture firm, reveals the world's tallest indoor waterfall.The 40-metre-tall Rain Vortex pours down seven storeys from an oculus in the glass domed roof of the Safdie Architects-deWorld's Tallest Indoor Waterfall Revealed Inside Safdie Architects' Singapore Airport Building
Singapore's soon to open Jewel Changi Airport, designed by Moshe Safdie's architecture firm, reveals the world's tallest indoor waterfall.The 40-metre-tall Rain Vortex pours down seven storeys from an oculus in the glass domed roof of the Safdie Architects-designed building at the airport, which is scheduled to open on April 17, 2019.Buro Happold engineered the glass and steel bagel-shaped roof, which spans more than 200 metres at its widest point, with Peter Walker and Partners Landscape Architects having created the climate-controlled indoor forest.The Rain Vortex has been designed to funnel rainwater at a rate of 10,000 gallons per minute as the country experiences thunderstorms very often. This stream of water will cool the air under the dome, while the captured water will be re-used in the building.According to the architecture studio, «Jewel Changi Airport re-imagines the center of an airport as a major public realm attraction. Jewel offers a range of facilities for landside airport operations, indoor gardens and leisure attractions, retail offerings and hotel facilities, all under one roof. A distinctive dome-shaped facade made of glass and steel adds to Changi Airport's appeal as one of the world's leading air hubs. Jewel represents an innovation in the world of lifestyle/retail design, with a one-of-a-kind relationship between garden and marketplace. In addition, nowhere in the world has a building been constructed that integrates the public realm with an airport facility so closely. The building extends Changi Airport’s principal function as a transit hub, to a public gathering space for Singaporeans and international travelers, establishing a new model for airports as discrete destinations for shopping, entertainment, and social activity.»Safdie Architects, founded by Israeli-Canadian-American architect Moshe Safdie in 1964, began work on the Jewel Changi Airport in 2014. Notable projects from the practice include Habitat 67 in Montreal, and the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Moshe Safdie's works are known for their dramatic curves, arrays of geometric patterns, use of windows, and key placement of open and green spaces. His writings and designs stress the need to create meaningful, vital, and inclusive spaces that enhance community, with special attention to the essence of a particular locale, geography, and culture. Safdie's practice operates in the model of a design studio environment, yet with the resources, design intelligence, and nimble organization to deliver some of the world’s largest and most complex commissions. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more