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The Wall House

THE WALL HOUSE

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The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks

ARCHITECTS
Farm

PHOTOGRAPHS
Bryan Van Der Beek & Edward Hendricks

AREA
1116 M²

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
Singapore

CATEGORY
Houses

The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks

Text description provided by architect.

The two blocks sit on a sprawling piece of land, belonging respectively to the retired parents and one of their children.

This separation of the house into two blocks, in part a response to the sheer scale of the land, is also a requirement brief given by the clients.

The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks
The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks

Programmatically, it consists of a two-storey block with the main living and master bedroom area, and a single-storey block housing the entertainment areas of the house.

What links these two volumes together is the huge central courtyard at the entrance expressed in an austere geometry of granite floor and wall, an organically shaped oculus and a minimalist planting of six willowy trees.

The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks
The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks

Like a sparse yet artful Chinese landscape painting, this sets the tone for the rest of the spaces.

The landscape design, similar to the house, is also experienced in multiple correlated layers.

The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks
The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks

It takes its inspiration from the philosophy of classical Chinese Garden where views are borrowed through cutouts and vistas, and where sight lines and spaces begin to overlap.

The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks
The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks


The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks
The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks
The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks
The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks
The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks
The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks
The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks
The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks


The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks
The Wall House
© Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks


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