Pomeroy Studio

Pomeroy Studio
Founded 2012
Headquarters Singapore
Website www.pomeroystudio.sg

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 (2016) – the first operational carbon negative house in Singapore;[4][5] 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.[6]

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.[7]

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.[8] 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.[9]

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.

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

Workplace

Retail and Leisure

Hospitality

Mixed Use

Urban habitat

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.[10][11]

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.[12]

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.[13] 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.[14]

Towards Zero Energy Development

The Studio’s research into zero energy development has resulted in buildings that not only have no operational carbon footprint, but actually produce more power than they consume. B House was Singapore’s first operational carbon negative landed property when it was completed in 2016.[15] 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.[16]

References

  1. ↑ Marie Reyes, Diane (June 20, 2015). "'Greening' urban centers". Manila Bulletin. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Jason Pomeroy". ctbuh.org. Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Pomeroy, Jason (2015). ‘Distil, Design, Disseminate’. Dechen House. p. 38. ISBN 978-981-09-5405-5.
  4. ↑ Peterson, Jane. "In Singapore, a Home That's Naturally Green". New York Times. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  5. ↑ Marie Reyes, Diane (June 20, 2015). "'Greening' urban centers". Manila Bulletin. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Theory". pomeroystudio.sg. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  7. ↑ Pomeroy, Jason (2011). Idea House: Future Tropical Living Today. ORO Editions. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-935935-10-0.
  8. ↑ Pomeroy, Jason. Distil, Design, Disseminate. Dechen House. p. 38. ISBN 978-981-09-5405-5.
  9. ↑ "How we do it". pomeroystudio.sg. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  10. ↑ "Architect, Jason Pomeroy's 'Skycourts and Skygarden' Book Launch Event". archinect.com. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  11. ↑ "Jason Pomeroy: Rigorously Green". indesignlive.sg. 29 October 2012. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  12. ↑ "The Skycourt and Skygarden | Lecture & Book Signing by Prof Jason Pomeroy". eventbrite.sg. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  13. ↑ Pomeroy, Jason (2015). Distil, Design, Disseminate. Dechen House. p. 55. ISBN 978-981-09-5405-5.
  14. ↑ Pomeroy, Jason (2015). Distil, Design, Disseminate. Dechen House. p. 55. ISBN 978-981-09-5405-5.
  15. ↑ Chua, Jean. "Here's Singapore's first carbon negative house". Eco Business. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  16. ↑ "B House". archinect.com. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
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