Concept
The logic of Eco Falls revolves around the “water body of Johor Strait.” It explores an earlier period in history in the region of Malaysia and Singapore, when its residents lived closer to nature than many do today.

Accordingly, Eco Falls is imagined as a high-quality living community and nature reserve, with exclusive residential and mixed-use development as well as the potential for natural habitat areas. A secluded haven of peace and tranquility, Eco Falls is conceived as a private “island within an island.” This vision responds to the overarching aim of positioning the Forest City Island, and Malaysia in general, as a major leisure-based, tourist destination, contributing to Malaysia’s economic diversification and offering a new, world-class destination to live and work in.

With this goal, the vision statement for Eco Falls can be encapsulated as: a peaceful oasis within Forest City—a mid-density environment devoted to commercial activity, comfortable living, and recreational opportunities that provides a harmonious relationship between people and nature.

Eco Falls Design Vision

A brand new waterfront skyline for a city of the future rooted in sustainability. Water. Where all human race starts. The world’s first waterfall tower echoes with Malaysia’s rich natural resources and life.

We propose a sustainable eco water filtration system. The initial urban landscape is rooted in sustainable water strategy; this has always been the most fundamental yet profound resource for human life. This gives us the opportunity to create a full site of nature running off of water collection and filtration system. Every land plot is wrapped with an eco-biological waterway purification channel and two main pedestrian-friendly eco-corridors.

Fresh water is naturally filtered and pumped up to the building for mechanical filtering and, then, use for swimming pools.

The swimming pool waste water then falls from the building to form a massive waterfall. This will create mass water steam for site air-cooling. Then the water enters the hydrological flow into the eco-waterway purification system again to be recycled and filtered.

The eco-biological waterway system will attract and create its own natural biodiversity; this will gain the new island natural inhabitants.

Client: Green Land
Year: 2016
Project Status: Planning Approval
Designer architect: MAUD-(Maxthreads Architectural Design and Planning) UK
Lead Architect: Max Yang, Key Liu, Eli She,
Project Team: Eric Lu, Demi Chen, Cara
Design Area: Total of 24 hectares