the net zero ?NUS school of design & environment 4,? designed by serie + multiply architects with surbana jurong, opens in singapore. the building, a prototype of sustainable design, combines contemporary sustainable methods with a tropical building language. located on a hilltop near the southern coastline of singapore, SDE4 is a new addition to a larger campus redevelopment in the design and environment precinct. the climate-responsive building includes more than 1,500 square meters of design studio space, a 500-square-meter open plaza, workshops and research centers, and a new library. the building?s flexible design and high efficiency reflect the school?s ambitions to promote new forms of educational spaces as a scaffold for research. the rooms are designed in a variety of scales to allow for flexible reorganization for exhibitions, school-specific installations and future change of use.
all images by rory gardiner
 
 
awarded to serie + multiply architects with surbana jurong through an international design competition launched in 2013, the building was envisioned as a porous collection of programmatically expressive ?platforms and boxes.? the project was developed by the school of design and environment at the national university of singapore. as the team?s initial ambition was to challenge the idea that a high energy efficient building must be opaque, the completed SDE4 is incredibly open. the building features large platforms which to promote interaction a...