An Ecology-First Resort in Singapore Where Nature Shapes Architecture and Guest Experience | WOW Architects

WOW Architects reframe resort design as ecology-first hospitality embedded within rainforest. Singapore’s shift from a Garden City to a City in Nature finds a potent test case in Mandai: a hospitality development positioned at the edge of the Wildlife Parks that treats the forest not as a view, but as a living system. WOW Architects’ winning competition proposal sets out a regenerative brief—one that occupies previously disturbed land that once served the zoo’s back-of-house programme and uses design to restore what development typically erodes. The project overturns the conventional zoo paradigm. Instead of constructing boundaries that protect humans from nature, […]