The Greja House

THE GREJA HOUSE 

Park + Associates

The Greja House
© Edward Hendricks

CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
YR2000 Engineering Consultants

QUANTITY SURVEYOR
N.A.

CIVIL
YR2000 Engineering Consultants

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
YR2000 Engineering Consultants

MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
N.A.

M&E ENGINEER
N.A.

MAIN CONTRACTOR
CTH Builder Pte Ltd

PHOTOGRAPHS
Edward Hendricks

AREA
392 m²

LOCATION
Singapore

CATEGORY
Houses

YEAR
2014

The Greja House
© Edward Hendricks

Text description provided by architect.

The project revisits the fundamental role of a home – providing an environment that bonds a family.

The design aims to heighten the occupants’ sensorial awareness to increase domestic interactions. To that end, the spaces were interpreted as a flow.

Key to the idea of flow is gestures of connection and circulation, which informed the way the spaces are composed.

The Greja House
© Edward Hendricks
The Greja House
© Edward Hendricks
The Greja House
© Edward Hendricks

Departing from the conventional approach where walls are used to define space, the domestic programmes are composed as interconnected voids.

The way the house interfaces with the lush foreground was achieved by composing basic geometric elements, infused with voids to detach from its boundary.

This matrix of borderless spaces is a white translucent box. Functionally, it acts as a screen that brings filtered daylight into the house while maintaining a degree of privacy.

The Greja House
© Edward Hendricks
The Greja House
© Edward Hendricks

Architecturally, it creates a permeable skin that not only dissolves the boundary between inside and outside but also defines the visual character of the house.

The 3-dimensional tapestry of this semi-detached house creates spaces that actively open up domestic dialogue, increasing the opportunities for more interactions - enriching the daily activities of its inhabitants.

The Greja House
© Edward Hendricks


The Greja House
© Edward Hendricks
The Greja House
© Edward Hendricks


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