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This house is for four generations. The client had planned for their parents’ retirement, an ‘open home, a cool tropical paradise for the family’, encouraging their children to ‘raise their families here when they grow up’.
Designed with an I-Thou relationship with nature, the family and nature share the same breathing space. Plants, water bodies, and living spaces are integrated as one. The setting provides daylighting, natural ventilation, and passive cooling. It offers an ecological-friendly environment that promotes general wellness for all.
At the foyer, an old retaining wall with a history of leakage has been transformed into a green courtyard with waterfall feature. Visitors are now greeted with tropical rainforest plants and the sounds of cascading water, which can be enjoyed from all levels.
Working with the existing terrain, built-ups that contributed to the site coverage are utilised as planters for tropical fruit trees, to cool ambient temperature, and to insulate the interiors. On plan, the house is a green oasis amongst the neighbourhood, of landscape decks and cascading planters framing the bio pool and ponds. These are the catchment areas for rainwater harvesting, to be recycled for irrigation.
Planting verandahs of varying plant species line the peripheries of the rooms and overlook the central pool. This continues to form a planter bridge of passion fruits, where climbing vines provide sun-shade from the setting sun, and a privacy screen for the neighbours.
Craft is celebrated here. Salvaged materials and objects form part of the schedule of finishes. It suggests alternative palette, tactile and experiential qualities of housing, in physical and spiritual sense.
This house has become the popular gathering place for the extended families and friends, and it has also attracted a host of biodiversity – from bees, butterflies to squirrels.
By living with and constantly in touch with nature, this house is a sanctum from the hustle of urban-living, reconnecting one’s soul with nature. It also reflects the great collaboration between the client and the team of consultants and builders, in making this contemporary tropical setting possible.
1. Evening view of the house from the roof garden. The house steps and falls with the terrain forming an amphitheatre at the heart of the plan.
2. View from Cornwall Gardens (street name). The house front conceals an inner sanctum and an undulating terrain.
3. The house front reveals and connects with its layers of greenery, merging and blending with the plants and trees on the street.
4. The front facade of orchids & charcoal logs. Charcoal filters rain, cleanses air, & generates earth \'qi\'. It symbolises good fortune and prosperity.
5. Front porch - recycled railway sleepers for the floor and the cabinets. The textured charcoal wall gets finer from the exterior into the interior, as absorbents of pollutants.
6. The front door is composed of recycled railway sleepers; the house signage 朱 in ancient Chinese oracle bone character engraved on charcoal log.
7. View of the entrance foyer. Visitors are greeted by skylight and the lush greenery, with the sounds of waterfall.
8. View from the lobby, with the library to the right.
9. A pond and waterfall inserted at a retaining wall with a history of leakage, providing an audio & visual backdrop of tranquility for the spaces.
10. View from one of the bed rooms.
11. The planting verandah connecting the bed rooms.
12. View of the Study and the passion fruit bridge.
13. A conserved Malayan Banyan Tree becomes the backdrop of this passageway, curved in relation to this tree.
14. View of the bedroom and a garden leading to the passion fruit bridge.
15. View of a bath room.
16. A sculpted stairway from the children\'s rooms.
17. Sculpted rebar railings for the stairs leading to the breakfast deck in the pool.
18. View from the games room. The bio pool flows into one of the bed rooms overlooking this games room.
19. All bed rooms centre around the natural rock-edged bio pool, the heart of the house.
20. Beyond the external walls, the inner periphery was sculpted to accommodate the abundance of greenery and integration of the sloping terrain.
21. Bridge of passion fruits, providing shade from the west sun & privacy screen for the neighbours. The lights were salvaged from the old house.
22. View from across the passion fruit bridge.
23. It feels on the ground up on the roof garden.
24. View of the terraced roof garden.
25. An oasis amongst the neighbourhood. Aerial view of the house amongst the neighbourhood.
Basement Plan
1st Storey Plan
2nd Storey Plan
Roof Plan
Front (East) Elevation
Rear (West) Elevation
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获奖者Chang
Born and raised in Singapore, Yong Ter's passion for architecture was discovered during his university years at the School of Architecture, National University of Singapore. Upon graduation, he sought apprenticeship with Mr. Tang Guan Bee for several years, before starting his practice, CHANG Architects, at the turn of this millennium. In his early years of practice, he was one of the 20 architects to be selected by the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore to showcase the works of young and emerging architects in Singapore. It was published in 20 Under 45: A Selection of Works by Under-45 Singapore-registered architects. In recent years, the practice has been recognised with the following awards: The President's Design Awards, Gold Medals for the Architects Regional Council of Asia (ARCASIA) Architecture Awards, Architecture Asia Awards for Emerging Architects, the Design for Asia GRAND AWARD, the Chicago Athenaeum/Europe International Architecture Awards, the GREEN GOOD DESIGN Awards, the German Design Council's ICONIC AWARDS, the World Architecture Festival Category Winner, and the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation. Yong Ter believes that architectural design is a work from the mind and the heart. While rationality and logic could fulfill functional briefs and achieve pragmatic efficiencies, an intuitive, poetic approach could resonate with the soul, and transcend limitations of rationalities. Therefore, part of the design process also includes unlearning and forgetting, and self-discoveries of the basics/origin.
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