It is the largest green oasis in the metropolis, with an area of over 50 hectares. A large team of architects, designers and engineers took part in the development of the Bay South concept, but the well-known landscape bureau from Great Britain Grant Associates acted as the general designer.
Their fellow countrymen from the Wilkinson Air workshop designed the central objects of the garden and park complex - two giant indoor greenhouses with an area of 1.2 hectares and 0.8 hectares, in which a microclimate is created and maintained, typical for subtropical and tropical regions, as well as for the Mediterranean countries. … To create these "ecosystems", resource-saving technologies were applied: a system for collecting, accumulating and natural transportation (due to the difference in heights) of water for irrigating flower beds, solar activity sensors that control automatic blinds, etc. As a result, greenhouses consume one third less energy than buildings comparable to them in area.
In Bay South, flora is grown from all over the world. However, there are also specific "plants" - two dozen so-called supertrees. You will understand what it is if you remember the 2005 project Climatic Trees by the Madrid bureau Ecosistema Urbano Arquitectos. True, supertrees - and the authors of the project do not hide this - are intended not to form an ecosystem, but rather to attract visitors. The height of some structures reaches 50 m, they consist of a concrete load-bearing “trunk”, a “crown” illuminated at night, and a steel “bark” on which greening panels are mounted. All supertrees are covered with climbing tropical plants. Several giants at a height of 20 m from the ground are connected by a footpath, which is 130 m long.
The Bay South landscape and recreational zone is only part of a huge park, there is also Bay Central and Bay East. The total area of the territory is over 100 hectares. It is planned that the complex will be visited by 5 million tourists a year. The project, commissioned by the National Park Development Committee, is estimated at £ 350 million. The Government of Singapore is implementing it within the framework of the large-scale urban concept "City in a Garden".
Andrey Chirkov
