Sky + Park

“Building, everyone needs it”. . . Let’s move our insight to the newly created SkyPark located at Singapore. It is something to prove that people think out-of-the box again, and again.

First of all, what is so special about these “three giants” on an island?

• 150m infinity swimming pool, known as the highest swimming pool in the country.

• The world's largest public cantilevered platform or it may be thought of like a long surfboard, which overhangs the north tower by 66.5m.
• The sky park is curved, planes that come around will see a smile from their bird's eyes view.

• The three towers represent three mountains or three warriors guarding the gateway to singapore. They are raising in「入」form and inclined at 52 degrees maximum. 

An international team called PERI specialists from singapore and germany created a comprehensive formwork and scaffolding solution for the korean building company, ssang yong engineering & construction. In particular, the skytable large slab tables as well as PERI ACS self-climbing technology have optimised construction progress with reduced crane times. 

  

With the help of these technologies and the large-area skytable slab tables, crews were be able to finish a complete floor with a standard height of 3 m in only four days. Twelve elevator shafts climbed three cycles in advance and a total of 110 skytable slab tables were required for constructing two complete floors in each case. Only two cranes per tower were available to the construction crews, therefore crane independent and crane-saving formwork solutions were used to construct the core walls and floor slabs respectively. 

Although the three hotel towers are still identical with regard to the height and number of floors, the forms of the respective building elements, on the other hand, have considerable differences in terms of the base width, curvature radius and lateral offset dimension. Furthermore, the individual floors are also offset from one another in a longitudinal direction.

Another fact-  the building is 340m longer than Eiffel Tower laid horizontally, and the three interconnected 50m swimming pools need 1.4 million litters of water.

Every building considers Fengshui. . .not just a little bit. . .

The Fengshui is interpreted Mrs. Louisa Ong Lee, a pupil from Mr. Chong Swan Lek, She applied the rules and principles of Fengshui in practice, which are guided by the so-called balance of the five elements. Its silvery white facade represents metal, while other elements represent fire. Wood is in the landscaping and greenery, while water surrounds it. Besides that, the fengshui master also choosing an auspicious date for casino opening. The casino opened its doors at 12.18 on the first day of chinese new year. Why 12.18? Because in cantonese, 12.18 sounds like 'surely will win” already.

* images courtesy of marina bay sands pte ltd. / moshe safdie and associates *

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