Description

High Gardens offers a holistic and healthy way of living by creating a self-sustaining ecosystem on its 8,100-square meter plot area. Consisting of three towers - one office and two residential with retail spaces, High Gardens provides a community that promotes work, live and play. This development hopes to find the missing link in Parañaque, where residents seek relief from the stresses of city life. Each of the two residential towers is intervened with openings to promote continuous airflow and visual transparencies. The corners are curved to encourage passive cooling and provide breathing spaces. The garden is elevated to the fifth floor to transform the ground floor as a host of desirable retail spaces. By elevating the garden and allocating wider sidewalks,, the complex prioritizes human activity over cars. The public promenade on the ground floor connects the various building programs into a continuous circulation. The design embeds connections at its core. Green spaces function to programmatically connect different building functions and act as sanctuaries to reconnect with oneself amid a busy city.