Pomeroy Studio
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| Founded | 2012 |
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| Headquarters | Singapore |
| Website | www |
Pomeroy Studio is a Singapore-based urbanism, architecture, design and research firm widely seen as being at the forefront of the sustainable built environment.[1][2] The studio was founded by Professor Jason Pomeroy in 2012. The Studio’s process of ‘Evidence – Based Interdisciplinary Sustainable Design’, or E-BISD for short, has sought to both refine and redefine sustainable built environments by embracing the preservation of space, culture and the selective use of technological innovation as part of the creative process.[3]
Sustainable projects include: B House (2015) – the first carbon negative house in Singapore;[4] Gramercy Sky Park (2012) – the tallest residential skypark in the Philippines; Newpark (2015), a new township seeking zero carbon status in Malaysia; and Century City (2015) – a commercial district that includes Trump Tower Manila, the Philippines. The Studio underpins its commercial projects by three fields of research: Towards Zero Energy Development; Greening The Urban Habitat and A Vertical Urban Theory.[5]
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E-BISD
E-BISD is an acronym for Evidence-Based Interdisciplinary Sustainable Design – a process that stems from Pomeroy’s research at Cambridge, his experience of working with the Japanese multi-disciplinary architecture, engineering, construction and development corporation, Kajima; and the design and execution of the Idea House – the first zero carbon house in Asia. Pomeroy asserts that a sustainable product (be that a city, a landscape, a building, or an interior) can only be created if there is a sustainable process.[6]
Pomeroy has argued that the often subjective creative design process can become more tangible and objective through rigorous testing based on fact and reason in order to reduce waste and enhance the performance of the built environment.[7] The ‘evidence-based’ designs are the product of an interdisciplinary team effort, comprising design specialists (which include architects, masterplanners, landscape designers, interior designers, graphic designers, sustainability consultants and theorists), supported by academics with research and quantitative analysis skills, a respect for culture, the community, the environment and the commercial considerations.[8]
6 parameters of sustainable design
The Studio includes spatial, cultural and technological parameters as three further spheres of consideration, in addition to social, economic and environmental parameters (commonly referred to as the ‘triple bottom line’), to create what the studio calls ‘the 6 parameters of sustainable design’ as part of their design decision-making.
- Social – addressing the needs of the individual, the family and the community, and creating urban spaces that are adaptable to change
- Cultural – drawing inspiration from history, local traditions and values, for solutions that embody local and / or national character and identity
- Environmental – employing passive design principles that optimise natural light and ventilation to reduce energy and water consumption
- Economic –Reducing both wealth inequality through the appropriate mix of use as well as the developments operation and maintenance costs
- Technological – complementing existing passive design techniques with the latest green technologies to move towards zero energy
- Spatial – preserving and replenishing open space through the employment of skycourts and skygardens as alternative social places
Selected projects
The Studio’s projects have a characteristic white, sleek and often curved profile that serves to reduce the surface area exposed to heat gain and to aid air-flow. An expertise in modular construction, coupled with environmental modelling to optimise natural light and natural ventilation, further help shape and mould the projects. The presence of skycourts and skygardens – a prevalent research topic for the Studio, also help characterise their city and building designs by balancing built up area with open social space. The incorporation of renewable technologies further reduces the reliance on natural resources. This is then underpinned by the cultural reinterpretation of local traditions - expressed through the architecture to help root developments to their location.
Residential
- Tropic Passive House, Malaysia
- Newpark Residences, Malaysia
- Azure Urban Beach Residences, Philippines
Workplace
- JJ Office Asia, Malaysia
- Panin Tower, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Asian Century Center, Philippines
Retail and Leisure
- J Avenue at JCube, Singapore
- Century Lifestyle Centre, Philippines
- Paris Hilton Beach Club, Philippines
Hospitality
- Newpark Hotel, Malaysia
- Passive Eco Pod, Malaysia
- Bateau Blanc, Malaysia
Mixed Use
- De Terrassen, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Putra Jaya Lakeside, Malaysia
- The Veil, Malaysia
Urban habitat
- Century City, Makati, Philippines
- One Mackenzie Park, Jakarta, Indonesia
- The Jahabah, Malaysia
Research
Pomeroy Studio’s creative output is underpinned by academic research, in three key fields:
The vertical urban theory
Prof. Pomeroy has researched the spatial, social, economic, environmental, cultural and technological attributes of sky-rise social spaces around the world, and is one of the world’s leading authorities on skycourts and skygardens.[9][10]
In his book ‘Skycourt and Skygarden: Greening the Urban Habitat’ (Routledge, 2014), Pomeroy brings together his research into one volume, which considers the skycourt and skygarden as an ‘alternative social space’ that forms part of a broader multi-level urban infrastructure - seeking to replenish the loss of open space within the built environment.[11]
Greening the Urban Habitat
Pomeroy Studio undertakes extensive research to understand the properties that greenery brings to the urban habitat. The increasing densification of the urban environment often comes at the expense of urban vegetation, which is being depleted and leads to the ‘urban heat island effect’ of cities.[12] The Studio’s research looks at alternative means to green the urban habitat that explores diagonal and vertical planted planes in addition to the horizontal plane of the ground, podium or rooftop in order to combat urban heat island effect by absorbing heat in the building fabric.[13]
Towards Zero Energy Development
The Studio’s research into zero energy development has resulted in buildings that not only have no carbon footprint, but actually produce more power than they consume. B House will be Singapore’s first carbon negative landed property upon completion in the 4th quarter of 2015 . The B House incorporates many of the techniques employed in a previous project of Pomeroy, the Idea House, as well as borrowing design ideas from the old colonial black and white bungalows that were built in Singapore in the 19th and 20th centuries.[14]
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