Hut House / Pencil Office

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Text description provided by the architects. A small hut like addition of 1,560 square feet (145 square meters) to an existing landed residential property in the Holland Village neighbourhood of Singapore is composed of a folded aluminium veil textured across the horizontal surface. This screen, set proud to the structural wall 10-inches (250-millimeters) mitigates thermal heat gain while producing a delightful pattern of light and shadow. The pattern across the façade is stretched along the horizontal axis, and stacked in three patterns, denying the normative conventions of scale to the two-storey object. Windows behind the veil are positioned to differing alignments and sizes, reinforcing a play of position and scale to undermine any registration of floor positions about the volume.