Right next to SCDA's SkyTerrace, WOHA's SkyVille@Dawson offers a different response to the Singapore Housing & Development Board's call for new approaches to public housing. While SCDA tackled the problem of multigenerational living, WOHA looked at ways of providing a sense of community in a huge complex with 960 dwelling units. Both projects, which will open in 2015, emphasize sustainable design adapted to a tropical climate and connect their buildings to a number of new and existing outdoor spaces and parks.
Roughly 80 percent of Singaporeans live in public housing and most buy their units, so projects are populated by the middle as well as the working class. With the quality of the buildings high and the price of the apartments low (from one-quarter to one-half that of market-rate units), only the wealthy live in privately developed housing. And since the government deducts money from all residents' paychecks and puts it in housing savings accounts, almost everyone can afford to buy an apartment just a few years after starting a career.
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