Project #3 / Studio Wills + Architects

Architects

Studio Wills + Architects
Location

Singapore
Category

Residential
Lead Architects

STUDIO WILLS + Architects
Area

1072.0 m2
Project Year

2018
Manufacturers

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Client

Capitaland Residential Singapore Pte Ltd
Master Planner and Architectural QP

W Architects Pte Ltd
C&S Engineer

RSP Architects Planners & Engineers Pte Ltd, KCL Consultants Pte Ltd
M&E Engineer

J Roger Preston (S) Pte Ltd
Quantity Surveyor

Langdon & Seah Singapore Pte Ltd
Landscape Consultant

ICN Design International Pte Ltd
Green Mark Consultant

Building System & Diagnostics Pte Ltd
Interior Fitting-out

Ernestomeda
Acoustics Consultant

Acviron Acoustics Consultants Pte Ltd
Builder

Daiya Engineering & Construction Pte Ltd
Photographs

Finbarr Fallon
Drone credits

Yeo Kai Wen & Lim Wei Xiang
Manufacturers

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Text description provided by the architects. PROJECT #3 is a bungalow in an exclusive residential enclave of 106 semi-detached houses and 3 bungalows in Singapore. The bungalow was envisioned, in the Master Plan, as 1 of the 2 buildings that provide visual ‘break’ to a group of semi-detached houses strung together like a ‘necklace’.

The bungalow is sited on a long and linear site, devoid of views. To avoid a wall-like structure, achieve a scale compatible with its smaller ‘neighbours’ and introduce courtyards for internal views, the permissible building volume was fragmented into smaller volumes of one-room depth.

The smaller building volumes ensure that all the interior spaces receive light, ventilation and views and are autonomous and independent of each other. Equipped with a comfortable equation of communality and privacy, the massing and planning sync with the programme of a multi-generational home.

The result is an architecture of prismatic, tower-like structures interspersed amongst courtyards and linked by a ‘connector’. The ‘towers’ constructed in concrete and finished in 2-tone sand colours and textures are akin to the surfaces and crevices of a rock. On the other hand, the ‘connector’ linking the ‘towers’ is black, sleek and contrasting. Moving within the interior of the bungalow, one experiences alternating qualities of solid and void, shade and light, indoors and outdoors with the surprise of secret gardens and courtyards nested amongst the ‘towers’.