The ACS Barker Road Campus is a new development of one of the oldest and most prestigious schools in Singapore. Sitetectonix designed the sprawling and hilly site with a hierarchy of landscape spaces ranging from the formal and ceremonial to the functional and playful.
The symbolic heart of the project is a dual plaza with “The Commons” at the lower level and the Assembly Plaza at the upper level. As the fulcrum between Church and School, these plazas are spaces of celebration and commemoration with formal planting character and radial ground patterning.
The “Commons” is anchored by a simple floor fountain set in the middle of a “compass” paving pattern with the points radiating out and bringing School and Church together. From the historically significant Clock Tower, a Mall rises to intersect with the Assembly Plaza and then continues down the other side to the Hostel area.
Within theses Twin Malls, Sitetectonix designed a series of garden gathering-spaces which are rhythmic in character, serving as “outdoor classrooms” with the canopies of trees as the roof overhead.
| Completed: | 2002 | | Client: | Anglo Chinese School, Singapore | | Architect: | SAA Architects |
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