Flower Dome and Cloud Forest – Singapore
Building: Flower Dome and Cloud Forest (Garden By the Bay’s Cooled Conservatories)
Completion: 2012
Location: Singapore
Architect: Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Structure Engineer: Atelier One
Service and Environmental Engineer: Atelier Ten
Lighting design: Lighting Planners Associates
Landscape Architects: Grant Associates
Irrigation design: WET (Water Equipment Technology)
AE Interests: Largest climate-controlled greenhouses in the world, largest man-made waterfall in the world, Cool dry (Mediterranean)/Cool dry (Mountainous) biomes, fragile glass grid shell to allow for maximum lighting, radial steel arches to take any external forces, low-e glazing to minimize solar gain, computer controlled shading, carbon neutral cooling system, Combined Heat Power (CHP) Biomass Steam Turbine `


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