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Project #3

PROJECT #3

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Project #3
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LANDSCAPE CONSULTANT
ICN Design International

ACOUSTICS CONSULTANT
Acviron Acoustics Consultants Pte Ltd

GREEN MARK CONSULTANT
Building System & Diagnostics Pte Ltd

BUILDER
Daiya Engineering & Construction Pte Ltd

QUANTITY SURVEYOR
Langdon & Seah

MANUFACTURERS
Duravit, Emco, Ernestomeda, Flos, Gessi, Kawajun, Warema, SKK, supergres

MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
J
Roger Preston (S) Pte Ltd

PHOTOGRAPHS
Finbarr Fallon

YEAR
2018

LOCATION
Singapore

CATEGORY
Residential

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Text description provided by architect.

PROJECT #3 is a bungalow in an exclusive residential enclave of 106 semi-detached houses and 3 bungalows in Singapore. The bungalow was envisioned, in the Master Plan, as 1 of the 2 buildings that provide visual ‘break’ to a group of semi-detached houses strung together like a ‘necklace’.

The bungalow is sited on a long and linear site, devoid of views. To avoid a wall-like structure, achieve a scale compatible with its smaller ‘neighbours’ and introduce courtyards for internal views, the permissible building volume was fragmented into smaller volumes of one-room depth.

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The smaller building volumes ensure that all the interior spaces receive light, ventilation and views and are autonomous and independent of each other.

Equipped with a comfortable equation of communality and privacy, the massing and planning sync with the programme of a multi-generational home.

The result is an architecture of prismatic, tower-like structures interspersed amongst courtyards and linked by a ‘connector’. 

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The ‘towers’ constructed in concrete and finished in 2-tone sand colours and textures are akin to the surfaces and crevices of a rock. On the other hand, the ‘connector’ linking the ‘towers’ is black, sleek and contrasting.

Moving within the interior of the bungalow, one experiences alternating qualities of solid and void, shade and light, indoors and outdoors with the surprise of secret gardens and courtyards nested amongst the ‘towers’.

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