Woha

Nest House

Nest House
© Patrick Bingham Hall
Nest House
© Patrick Bingham Hall

NEST HOUSE

WOHA

ARCHITECTS
WOHA

MANUFACTURERS
KStone, Million Lighting

PHOTOGRAPHS
Patrick Bingham Hall

AREA
2080 m²

YEAR
2011

LOCATION
Singapore

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

This house is part of a family compound, and expresses the owner's close relationship with her grandfather who has his own house within the compound.

Nest House
© Patrick Bingham Hall
Nest House
© Patrick Bingham Hall
Nest House
© Patrick Bingham Hall

The design reflects the close bond between the grandfather and granddaughter by orientating the main spaces towards his house and gardens. 

The living spaces on the ground floor open up to the sprawling gardens, while the elevated private rooms of the owner and her children are sheltered by a gentle curved screen.

The shared gardens are akin to a forest with the rooms like bird nests perched amongst the trees.

Nest House
© Patrick Bingham Hall
Nest House
© Patrick Bingham Hall

The expression of house refers to bark, branches and twigs. These components achieve a delicate complexity.

The rooms are wrapped with a curved textured screen in a timber and aluminium woven lattice in different lengths and diameters.

Other than an abstract feature, the screen serves varied functions - It is a porous layer protecting the rooms from weather and glare while allowing filtered daylight and ventilation through;

Nest House

© Patrick Bingham Hall
Nest House
© Patrick Bingham Hall

It mediates the privacy of the space behind by adjusting the intensity of its members; It doubles up as a safety barrier at the windows and attic terrace.

The play in lines, edges and shadows is extended to the side walls clad in modular timber profiles and panels.

The blade walls on which the rooms are perched are given a textured bark-like quality with randomly stacked modular blocks in stone and pre-cast concrete.

Nest House
© Patrick Bingham Hall
Nest House
© Patrick Bingham Hall
Nest House
© Patrick Bingham Hall

Orientated with its axis along East-West, the staggered profile of the blade walls, coupled with deep canopies and full height windows, catch and bounce day light and cross-breezes in and through the house's double volumes.

This tropical house within an extended family compound, uniquely expresses its Singaporean environment, culture and context.

Nest House
© Patrick Bingham Hall


Nest House
© Patrick Bingham Hall
Nest House
© Patrick Bingham Hall


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East Elevation
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West Elevation


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South Elevation
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