Project Summary
UOB headquarter is located near the new shopping district in Bangkok, where the tourists and locals are emerging with the new city lifestyle. The bank is no longer just a corporate building that segregates the landscape and the city outside. Rather, landscape design became a part of the banking experience where everyone could visually and physically enjoy.
The two office and banking towers are situated on the landscape plaza where all the patterns are seamlessly connected to the building facade. This landscape plaza becomes a platform that connects all people who come to visit and those who work in the office tower. The front yard landscape design provides a subtle green platform in order to enhance the public banking area. Along the entrance, a tropical green tapestry acts as a natural screening wall that creates a visual welcoming effect. The green wall leads people from the public to the inner part of the development where the secret garden is subtly located next to the main office lobby.
This garden not only provides a green scenery for the lobby, but also provides an outdoor sanctuary for the officers as well as the guests. The garden is designed with three combinations: the background, the showcase, and the dynamic foreground. The background of the garden is designed to express Thai essence. Screening wall and subtle pattern design of the planter wall are derived from the traditional Thai pattern. Combining this with the Melodorum fruticosum, a traditional Thai fragrance tree species, the modern contemporary Thai garden is formed. The open courtyard as a showcase is framing with the natural Basalt stone stripes marking on the ground. This creates an intangible structural presence of space under the sculptural tree. In the frontage, the fountain creates a visual dynamic as well as the pleasure sound of moving water that provides the sense of relaxation for those who are in the garden.
The office environment could be designed with the integration of landscape in order to create a better atmosphere where people could live and work closer to nature.
