School of Design & Environment: Building a Sustainable Prototype

Energy and sustainability, Middle Density, Project, Serie Architects, Urban Paradigms

Architecture’s challenge, Architecture&environment, Architecture&nature, Circulation, Climate concern, Collaborative Architecture, Comfort, Community, Context, Design, Design-based research, Educational Building, Educational Program, Efficiency, Energy, Energy saving, Environment, Extension, Façade, Flexibility, Geometry, Innovation, Landscape, Low-energy building, Mixed uses, Nature vs. Artificial, New perspectives, Passive ventilation, Project, Prototype building, Public Space, Republic of Singapore, Research, Responsive Environment, Singapore, Sustainable, Ventilation, Well-being

Photography: Rory Gardiner

The new NUS School of Design & Environment 4, the first NET Zero Energy building of its kind opens in Singapore; the building, a prototype of sustainable design, combines a stringent net-zero target and a revalidated grammar of tropical architecture.