At the Singapore airport you will soon be able to admire "Jewel", a huge bioclimatic dome that will host many plant species and a waterfall creating a real forest.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himA forest in the middle of the airport, complete with a waterfall and lush jungle. It happens to Singapore, in whose airport by 2018 there will be something truly out of the ordinary.
Already known to avid travelers for being one of the most beautiful airports in the world and one of the most important in Southeast Asia (58 million passengers in 2016), the Changi International Airport Singapore actually has more than one reason to leave us speechless.
Do you think there is the usual shopping arcade, a business center and a hotel connected to a Terminal? You are wrong. Changi is not only the luxury more extreme, but also a authentic amusement park if you have time to spend between flights.
A Swimmingpool open 24 hours a day, one cinema hall (free), a garden of butterflies, a decorative plantation of orchid complete with relaxing music and the Cactus garden.
In short, it seems that for the passengers in transit it is a real fun. But you want to put if in all this we also place a nice ed huge greenhouse with tall plants and trees and a central waterfall fed by rainwater? The greenhouse, designed by the designers of Safdi Architects, which received the International Architecture Award in 2016), is called Jewel, will be bioclimatic and will host many plant species. In addition, it will act as both an airport hub, both a public space and a commercial area.
The large glass dome of about 134 thousand square meters will also house a capsule-hotel (a hotel whose rooms are "capsules" with shared services), restaurants and shops and real attractions, including one cascade of 40 meters, the "Rain Vortex", the most largest waterfall inside the world, which will descend from the center of the glass and steel dome and be recharged by the collected and reused rainwater.
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The Jewel will be built as an extension of Terminal 1, but it can also be accessed via pedestrian bridges from Terminals 2 and 3. It will be possible to check-in there, as long as you know how to move among its 10 plans, of which 5 underground ...
Germana Carillo
