Research for Design Solution 2

Elderly Town: Residential Towers (Architecture)

To help with coming up with the design of the residential towers, I searched for ideas both online and through books and came across several useful and informational architectural designs from the book Evolo Skyscrapers 2.

This book contains many interesting and futuristic architectural designs under various categories such as 'Technological Advances' and 'Ecological Urbanism'. I thought it will be great to draw some inspiration from the designs in the book and I picked out a few that I thought would be relevant to my group.

Firstly, it's Unit Fusion.

Unit Fusion is a design catered to the rising demand for housing especially in populated countries with limited land. This is very useful and applicable to Singapore. Its main feature of being a high-rise building (75 floors) that can have concrete units plugged when an apartment is purchased. An advanced technology like this is really fascinating and I thought it'd be something worth looking into or used as reference. 

Tower 3 Agropolis is very interesting too and also applicable to Singapore. It's a fresh living vegetable market which means the residents can grow their own crops and also consume by the residents. Water is recycled for plantation and waste used as fertilisation. It is not only environmentally friendly but cost efficient and sustainable which is the direction our group is taking for our elderly town. 

Vertical Farming is very similar to Tower 3 Agropolis, in the sense that both deals with plantation and agriculture. Vertical Farming targets the problem of increasing rice demand. However, it's not a residential architecture. Nonetheless it is still useful. The structure is built like stairs and have plantation plots upwards. This smart design in structure can save space as lesser land will be used to plant more crops and water is able to flow from the top of structure to the bottom. 

These 3 innovative designs are what fascinated me the most and thought were useful and worth looking into and maybe developed into a part of our designs.