| Category | Urban Planning | Retail | Hospitality | Sports, Community & Recreation | Theme Parks | Mixed Use |
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| Year | 2010 |
| Size | 490,000sqm |
Projects
Resorts World Sentosa
Water, landscape and form
Resorts World Sentosa is an integrated leisure and entertainment resort of the largest kind, a 49-hectare tropical destination for regional and international visitors sited on Singapore’s Sentosa Island.
It is an architectural and master-planning project designed to offer a milieu of activities among a series of heavily interwoven zones of programme. Our architects worked across all scales to design a resort unified with its tropical island site and responsive to its views of the ocean and the city of Singapore.
Details
Resorts World Sentosa is planned as three major zones of programme: the Universal Theme Park to the east; an aquatic-themed West Zone with a maritime museum; and the Central Zone with a 15,000 square metre casino, 1600-seat theatre, convention centre, six hotels, retail, food and beverage outlets and outdoor performance spaces.
With its rich vegetation and natural undulating terrain, Sentosa Island is well-endowed with a diverse landscape. The many components of Resorts World Sentosa have been designed to augment the experiential aspects inherent to the island in addition to offering a spectrum of new features.
Our design provides many large open spaces and pedestrian routes that organise the site, creating interesting experiences for visitors.
Adventure Cove Waterpark lets visitors float down a meandering river through fourteen different settings including a tropical garden, a mysterious grotto and an underwater tunnel.
Pedestrian circulation routes bring visitors on visually evolving journeys, through event spaces and across changing topographies.
ETFE canopies provide shade and rain protection.
Central to the project’s planning is a system of waterways and pedestrian circulation routes, especially designed to bring visitors on visually evolving journeys, through event spaces and across changing topographies. These paths are planned sequentially to alternate the visitor amongst various axes of orientation and reveal new and exciting frames of view, such as the mainland, the sea, the elements of the project’s architecture, or the Merlion national landmark on the site’s ridge.
Resorts World Sentosa jointly exhibits large open spaces: performance venues, a retail promenade, an outdoor food and beverage zone covered by an immense ETFE canopy for shade and rain protection, and the intimate, immediate relationships of the waterfront and lush landscape.
Three tropical design elements are used to characterise the project: (1) water, (2) landscape and (3) the forms, materials and details associated with tropical architecture— highly articulated façades, awning treatments, shade-producing trellis work and large pitched roofs.
The use of natural palettes, including those displayed by the millions of square metres of stone that has been imported from regions worldwide, supply a breadth of warm colour and surface that engage the visitor and assimilate the project within the island’s tropical rainforests.
In collaboration with Michael Graves and Associates, USA
Specialist Services
Integrated services provided for this project.
AWARDS
| 2013 |
LIAS Awards of Excellence (Gold) Resorts World Sentosa |
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| 2010 |
Cityscape Awards - Architecture Emerging Markets (Highly Commended) - Leisure Built Resorts World Sentosa Central Zone |
| 2010 |
Cityscape Awards - Architecture Emerging Markets (Highly Commended) Resorts World Sentosa Central Zone |