Park + Associates

Assembled House

Assembled House
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ASSEMBLED HOUSE

Park + Associates

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
GLT Engineers Private

MAIN CONTRACTOR
Construkt Pte Ltd

MANUFACTURERS
Geberit, Duravit, Gessi, JEE-O, KStone, Kawajun, Legrand, Villeroy & Boch, Bravat,
Forma Lights, Netzach Veneers, Rice Fields

DESIGN TEAM
Lim Koon Park, Christina Thean, Fiona Chua, Jee Prongsuriya, Achawin Laohavichairat

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Park + Associates

PHOTOGRAPHS
Studio Periphery

YEAR
2018

LOCATION
Singapore

CATEGORY
Houses, Houses Interiors

Text description provided by architect.

We were tasked to create a new home for our client’s family of five, who loved more than anything to spend time with each other, and whose brief reflected so.

Immediately, we established our main aim to provide generous visual porosity through and between spaces inside the home.

Assembled House
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Assembled House
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Assembled House
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This naturally resulted in us taking a volumetric approach to interpreting the client’s brief, whilst at the same time not losing touch on creating intimate as well as necessarily private spaces for the client and his young family.

The main entrance of the house is approached through a series of granite steps. The deliberate use of stone grounds the entrance experience (and the house), crafting a path leading one from the lower car porch level to the main habitable spaces.

Assembled House
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Assembled House
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Through this, we were able to mitigate the level differences necessitated by the requirements as set out by the authorities. Steering away from the conventional floor plate-upon-floor plate connected by a central core, we endeavoured to challenge ourselves in crafting a multi-level layered experience as one traverses through the house.

We felt that through this exercise in layering, we would be able to overcome the narrow site to create spaces that are lofty and light-filled.

Addressing this site constraint meant that from the exterior with its solid and strong planar form, it is hardly expected that walking through the internal spaces would be akin to a little never-ending, playful adventure. A drawn out spatial experience awaits as one enters the house - a series of little bursts of spaces.

Assembled House
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Assembled House
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The changing volumes of the various pockets of spaces - from the double volume living room, to the narrow staircase that releases one out onto the mezzanine study; coupled with carefully-placed glazing that facilitates visual connections to and from spaces over several levels, enable one to realise one’s own body in relation to the scale of each space.

This was an important achievement for us, as we strive in our body of work to always come back to the human scale, to how one’s body understands and fits within a crafted space, within a home.


Assembled House
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Assembled House
© Studio Periphery
Assembled House
© Studio Periphery


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Lower basement floor plan
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Upper basement floor plan
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Lower first floor plan
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Upper first floor plan
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Second floor plan
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Roof plan


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Section

Park + Associates
T +65 6282 0604
Park + Associates
46 Kim Yam Road, #05-04 The Herencia, 239351, Singapore