PARKROYAL

SINGAPORE
CASE STUDY
PRESENTED BY- MANISH BHATI
(35118003417)
 INTRODUCTION
 LOCATION- Central Of Singapore DESIGN CONCEPT
 YEAR OF BUILT – 2013 A contoured podium, referred to as topographical architecture,
 ARCHITECT – WHOA is mimicked from terraced plantations. It provides plazas,
 DEVELOPER – Pan Pacific Hotel Groups gardens and terrace which flow seamlessly into the interiors.
Limited The crisp and streamlined tower blocks harmonize with
 PROJECT TYPE-Commercial, Hospitality, surrounding high rise office buildings.
Mixed use, Office.
 AREA- 29,811 sqm The snaking bands of fluted
concrete weave through the length
and breadth of the podium without
interruption and without
acknowledgement of the boundaries
between exterior and interior.

The hotel has been awarded the BCA

Green Mark Platinum award, the
highest rating for green buildings in
Singapore for it’s sustainable design. Its PURPOSE OF BUILDING
is also the recipient of the Solar Pioneer Designed as a hotel and office in a
Awards as one of the first in the garden. The project is a study of
hospitality sector to introduce solar
how we can not only conserve our
power sky gardens with solar cells that
power landscape lighting. greenery in a built up high rise city
centre but also multiply it in a
manner that is architecturally
striking, integrated and vulnerable

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SITE PLANNING
Parkroyal was designed as a hotel-as-garden that actually doubled the green
growing potential of it’s site. This hotel is located within the Central Business
District and Chinatown areas, adjacent to Singapore’s first privately owned
garden – Hong Lim Park. Park Royal is an example of how large amount of
green can be achieved in a city.

SUN ORIENTATION
• 2nd April 9AM – 50% of the highest floor facing North East are shaded.
The floors from 14th and below facing North East are 20% shaded.
• 2nd April 12PM - The north facing side of the building completely shaded.
• 2nd April 4PM – All floor facing North East are completely exposed to
sunlight. The hotel has minimal shaded surfaced during this time.
• 21st June 9AM – 95% of the building surfaces facing North are completely
shaded and 40% of the surfaces facing North East are shaded.
• 21st June 12PM – 97% of all floors facing north are completely shaded and
the surface facing North East are 25% shaded.
• 21st June 4PM – 100% of the surfaces facing North East and 98% of the
surfaces facing North are exposed to sunlight.

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VIEW FROM THE SITE
 View of Singapore River.
 Design as an extension of Hong Lim Park.
 View of Chinatown Heritage Centre.
 View of Marina Centre Areas.
 View of Raffles city.

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 E – SHAPE DESIGN
The building has an E shape so that all
rooms are oriented to the north and
overlook the park or the hotel gardens.

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 VEGETATION
Parkroyal is designed with tropical plants and
supporting frangipani plants and palm trees. A diverse
variety of species ranging from shade trees, tall
palms, flowering plants, leafy shrubs and overhanging
creepers come together to create a lush tropical
setting that is attractive not only to the people but
also to insects and birds, extending the green areas
from Hong Lim Park and encouraging bio-diversity in
the city.

• Palm trees
• Shade trees
• Overhanging creepers
• Others species

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 SPACIAL PLANNING

• From the 1st floor plan, most of the space are public and
few semi-public areas.
• The 2nd floor plan has less public area and most of the
area are semi-public and private areas.
• At 5th floor there is no public area because this place is
for the customers who rest and relax here so this place
becomes private and semi-private place.
• From 7th floor, all are private areas as it consists of
guestrooms.
• 14th floor is also considered as private area . Here all
the guestroom views are facing to the skygarden giving a
natural feel.

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TYPES OF ACTIVITY SPACES
1. Sky Garden
2. Roof Terrace
3. Guestrooms
4. Cabanas
5. Swimming pool
6. Prefunction lobby
7. Conference room
8. Urban verandah
9. Hotel passageway
10.Back of house

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CONSTRUCTION METHOD
(COBIAX TECHNOLOGY)
• Parkroyal is built with COBIAX
technology, an innovative green
construction system that optimises
building efficiency by positioning hollow
spherical void formers made of
environment friendly recycled plastics
within concrete slabs. This reduces the
dead load of the slab and unnecessary
concrete usage and allows to construct
substantially flexible, economical and
sustainable slabs.

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 DAY LIGHTING PLANNING
EXTENSIVE USE OF NATURAL LIGHT

 The E-plan of the building makes the surface area

of the building larger, more sunlight is brought into
the building due to different angles that light can
penetrate from. Large windows flow-to-ceiling glass
walls are used to maximise natural light coming into
the building.
 The streamlined tower blocks are attenuated into
an open-sided courtyard configuration, breaking
down the walls of buildings’ effect and maximising
views and daylighting into the building.
 Double-glazed low emissivity glass that has
transparent metallic coating to economize heating
energy is used to reflect heat back into the room
while allowing heat and light from the sun to pass
through.

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DAY LIGHTING PLANNING
SUN SHADING

 Parkroyal also has a natural passive design

feature that shades the building from the sun.
The greeneries on the floors of the hotel are
for sun shading purposes. It helps to block some
of the sunlight that penetrates into the walkway.
These would make the walkways bright yet sun
shaded.
 The sky gardens that cantilever out provide
partial sun shading for the building and
sunscreen are unnecessary on the façade.
 Corridors, lobbies and common washrooms are
designed as garden spaces and are planted with
shade trees and overhanging creepers which
create an alluring resort ambience with natural
lighting.

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WATER RECYCLE PLANNING
1. Eco cell & rainwater harvesting – A rainwater
harvesting system is implemented in the building.
The sky gardens serve as water catchments which
are used to collect rainwater for landscaping
irrigation by gravity feet, with the drip irrigation
system used to optimize water consumption.
Collection tanks are sized to hold reserves and
supplemented with non-portable NEWater during
periods of dry weather. Harvested rainwater is
used throughout the buildings and for water
implants within the building.
2. Use of NEWater – NEWater helps to ensure
Singapore’s water sustainability by tapping on
Singapore’s used water network. Used water is
channelled to Water Reclamation Plants (WRPs)
for treatment. The treated used water is further
purified at NEWater plants to make it ultra clean
and safe to drink.

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VENTILATION AND SPACE COOLING/HEATING

1. Extensive Greenery & Water Features –

 Large area of the total land is constituted by lush landscaping.
Greenery from adjoining park is drawn in the form of lushly greenery.
 Corridors, Lobbies and common washrooms are designed as garden
spaces with stepping stones which create an alluring resort ambience of
fresh air.
 The greenery and water features that flank half of the hotel’s
guestroom corridors cool these areas naturally and cut down on energy
use for air conditioning.
 The water features are placed all around the hotel which provides cool
air for the walkways instead of using air conditioning. These water
features offer additional benefits such as space cooling, increased
humidity and improved air quality.

2. Naturally Ventilated Open Corridors

 The external corridors at every floor are opened up on the side facing
the adjacent building. Instead of using a wall, the plants along the sides
act as a boundary which provides plenty of natural ventilation for the
space.
 The front façade of the building is facing north which is the prevailing
direction of the wind. Thus, the building is constantly ventilated and
doesn’t require much energy on air-conditioning on the open hallways
and corridors.

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VENTILATION AND SPACE COOLING/HEATING
3. Opened Roof / Sky Garden
 Parkroyal has a swimming pool with an
open roof concept at the sky garden. The
function of the sky garden is that of a
lounge that serves drinks to guests. This
is to promote natural vegetation along the
whole floor.
4. Centralised Air Conditioning
System
 The design of the central air conditioning
system has been optimised to maximise
energy efficiency. It is shared by the
office tower and hotel to provide
efficient cooling to office units.
5. Double Glazed Low-E Glass Façade
 The reason low E glasses are used on
both sides of east and west is to lower
heat gain in the interior but also keeping
the view of surrounding context. It
functions to prevent heat from
penetrating from the exterior.

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RENEWABLE ENERGY
IMPLEMENTATION
Photo Voltaic Cells / Solar Panels

 Parkroyal’s design concept was inspired by the

Parkroyal brand promise to give their guests a ‘local
connection’ to the environment around them. It
features a stunning hotel-in-a-garden concept with
energy saving elements incorporated throughout the
building.
 Its sustainable project design and green efforts have
already earned it the BCA Green Mark Platinum,
Singapore’s highest green rating, as well as the Solar
Pioneer Award for its innovative solar energy system.

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ENERGY CONSERVATION
Water
‘ZERO ENERGY’ SKY GARDEN catchments on
top sky garden
 Parkroyal’s designs are designed to be self-sustaining and
rely minimally on precious resources. Rainwater collected
from upper floor irrigate planters on the lower floor by
gravity supplemented by non-portable recycled Newater,
which will also be used for all water features.
 The sky gardens also serve as water catchments and are
‘zero energy’- irrigated by rainwater harvesting, with a
gravity-fed drip system powered by solar energy from
photovoltaic cells on the roof. Harvested rainwater is
used throughout the building’s water features. One of the
uses of harvested rainwater is watering the plants within
the building. Rainwater collected
from upper floors
 Small tubes are connected to these wire mesh frames to irrigate plants on the
provide a plant-watering system whereby droplets of lower floor by gravity

water will be released on to the soil from time to time to

keep the plants well hydrated in the air conditioned
environment.
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WATER EFFICIENT FITTINGS

 Each of the bathrooms in

the guestrooms have water
efficient fittings to save
the usage of water. The
amount of water disperse
can be controlled, thus
saving quite a huge sum
annually. Automatic sensors
to regulate energy and
water usage are also
installed.

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ELECTRIC EFFICIENT LUMINAIRES

 Use of energy efficient

LEDs and T5 type
fluorescent lamps have
high efficiency and high
output. It helps to save
energy and has a long life.
 Their energies are used
throughout the building to
save energy as well as the
cost of electricity.

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