Designed in response to a world-wide competition for Changi Airport’s Terminal 3 was built around Singapore’s commitment to being a “City within a Garden”. The emphasis on conserving floor space and moving the gardens to the wall made the terminal and the airport first of its kind in the world.
The holistic design of Terminal 3 introduces lush greenery, warmth, and softness into an ultra-modern, sky-lit mega-structure of stone, glass and steel. It is a demonstration of the seamless integration of gardens into buildings, and landscape into architecture.
The five-storey-high garden of vines and epiphytes hangs down an area over three football fields in length. In between, water glides gracefully don 20m-high laminated walls of shredded glass and stainless steel. More than 10,000 tropical plants are showcased across the green wall tapestry. Catwalks carefully hidden away allow for easy and safe maintenance of the plants.
