Selected project: Changi Airport T2

Changi Airport Terminal 2 (T2)
Singapore
50,000 estimated SF Greenwalls, green totem columns, hanging rock pillars, green rays/blades, planters and pond vegetation
(Video)

Greenroofs.com presented project May 16, 2025

Singapore is a pleasure in many ways, especially for ecological design! We present a simple spectacular project, Terminal 2 or T2, Changi Airport.

I had added this miracle to mine “2024 Top 10 list in Living Green Architecture: Climate Action drives the design of the design” In the category #10: Client -specific 'Boutique' Greenendroofs & Greenwalls Because of his driver to romantize the airport experience. Pretty unique!

Spend some time when visiting Singapore at Changi Airport, with a variety of amenities for travelers and non-drives alike. The Changi Airport Group did everything to ensure as much stress-free as possible during the airport trip and offer nature, beauty and relaxation as well as an unprecedented series of shopping and food experiences. No wonder that it recently won the best airport 2025 Skytrax (for the 13th time)! A big praise to everyone!

Special thanks go to V2COM Newswire for the excellent press kit No. 7412-01 “Boiffils Architectures brings the 'Garden City' in the new biophilic airport airport terminal with photo record: Changi Airport Group-Fabian Ong and to Patrick Blanc for some of his photos and snippets of the video” Singapore Changi Airport T2-Green Expansion with Patrick Blanc ”from Paspat 2024 on YouTube.

Extract from the project profile of Greenroofs.com:

In November 2023, the internationally known Airport of Singapore was reopened its Terminal 2 after a massive 5-year expansion project. In T2, nature hits modernity: the areas of architecture and landscape seamlessly merge. It received the highest green rating from Singapore, the Platinum Green Mark certification.

Designed by Boiffil's architectures in cooperation with the botanist Patanist Patrick Blanc and the landscape architect Genesis Nine One were added to the original terminal building on three levels an additional infrastructure, new systems and other shopping and restaurant offers.

Changi Terminal 2 inspired by Singapore “Garden City” vision and built a new language for airport design that brings serenity, pleasure and comfort. Together with a lavish leaves everywhere, it was the idea to romantize the airport experience and the priority on the traveler: to calm the mind, body and soul with connections to the elements of the earth.

Changi Terminal 2 offers more than 20,000 plants of at least 350 species. The departure and arrival halls were as panoramic processes and open, and travelers can experience the flora in Singapore through two unique immersive installations. The magical 3-D-Dreamscape garden designed by Patrick Blanc envelops travelers in an environment with vegetable walls, hanging columns and jet-like works of art that are loaded with vegetation. Malawi Cichlid Fish live here in the pond, which is full of aquatic plants.

Designed by Multimedia Studio Moment Factory, a fantastic LED ceiling replicates external weather conditions in real time and plays bird songs and insect noises from almost 100 shots, which are broadcast by an immersive 3D sound system.

The three-story, 14-meter high and 17-meter width of digital waterfall display, which is known as the “The Wonderfall”, welcomes passengers in the central axis of the departure hall. Soothing cascades flow between vertical gardens that rise on music on both sides of the curved LED screen together with choreographed water dances. The tailor-made lighting by PH concept Lumière ensures that long-term sustainability for internal vegetation and noise levels are also noticeably lower. And the architects are proud to have hired craftsmen from very small companies to create many elements.

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A Changi Airport, Changi Airport, continues to cross the limits of the Service Airport and the innovation.

The Changi Airport T2 expansion project not only increases its handling capacity and customer service, but also created a quiet multi-sensory environment and the biophile yard for joy, pleasure and discovery between international airports.

Year: 2023
Owner: Changi Airport Group (CAG), Singapore government
Location: Singapore
Building type: Airport, multi -purpose
Type: Greenwalls
System: Individual source providers & Custom
Size: Greenwalls: approx. 50,000 m².
Inclination: 1-100%
Access: Accessible, public

Credits:

Architect:
Boiffil's architectures

Architect of record and civil engineers:
RSP Architects Planner & Engineers (PTE)

General contractor:
Takenkakenka

Engineer:
J Roger Preston

Botanical design:
Dr. Patrick Blanc

Greenwall system:
The vegetable wall

Landscape architect:
Genesis nine one

Lighting consultant:
Light designer

Consulting and cost management:
Driver took off the bunch of Bucknall

Fire protection and risk technology:
Ignesis consultant

It consultant:
Inline technologies

Multimedia:
Moment factory

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