Angkor Stretch

The Angkor Stretch is positioned along the historically steep and busy Russian Boulevard, linking their brewery in Sihanuokville down south and Phnom Penh. It is an integrated complex of a popular Cambodian brewer, amalgamating warehousing facilities and serves as the prime transitional hub where the beverages can be distributed efficiently with minimal storage period. Russian Boulevard being a perpetually congested boulevard, this building serves as a temporary respite in a social sense through urban interventions and punctuations. The huge setback from the main road, its transparent concourse and the oasis setup, introduces space and greenery to this segment of the boulevard. The distorted elongated form is sculpturally mirroring the context of unified shop-dwellings within the vicinity injecting a fresh of breath air. The complex which is restricted by aviation guidelines, is zoned, stretched and diversified laterally to fulfill the client’s program brief efficiently. All the blocks congregate in linearity inwardly hugging the dense Central Garden like an oasis as a green focal point. Segregated in zones but visually communicated by voids and atriums, physically linked through bridges and ramps within the unifying envelope. The Angkor Stretch is blended into the current socio-enviro setting naturally and seamlessly without adverse distraction and unnecessary confrontation.