The home is located in Singapore and covers an area of 5,306 square feet.
Chiltern House by WOW Architects | Warner Wong Design:
“The spaces in this family home on Chiltern Drive in central
Singapore were crafted like a garment, woven around the needs and
desires of its inhabitants. The home aspired to be deeply rooted,
connected to the surrounding environment, the history of its
development, as well as the family’s lifestyle.
The house was constructed as a single monolithic concrete
structure. The woven steel reinforcement and raw timber formwork into
which the concrete was cast have imprinted the process of building into
its surfaces, with rugged lines in the concrete and hints of steel
reinforcement in the walls and ledges. As the early morning sun casts
shadows across the textured horizontal bands left behind in the concrete
where the timber formwork once was, the memory of the construction
process itself marks the passing of time and reminds the family of the
effort, desire, and realization of their dream.
The spaces within and around the house were designed for each
family member to enjoy their own privacy and commune with nature, as
well as spaces where they could meaningfully come together in the
creation and continuation of family rituals around meals, greetings, and
homecomings. The house is articulated around a square geometry in plan,
but the spatial arrangement within this straightforward framework is a
complex interplay of large and deep spaces and connections that stretch
across the length of the house in various directions. These elongated
rooms draw the eye across them, at times relating to the views of the
garden, across extended windows that skirt the skyline and horizon or to
focus the exaggerated perspectives on select elements within a room.
These visual connections within the rooms as well as from space to space
help to unite the inhabitants and make them aware of each other’s
movements within the house as well as strongly link the house to its
surrounding environment.
The living and dining rooms are connected in one continuous space
with a swimming pool at one end and a rear garden at the other. Along
the length of the room, a low bay window ledge cast into the folds of
the wall and a long horizontal window opening provide an intimate and
direct connection to the landscape, as well as casual seating that can
comfortably accommodate one or many people. Similarly, the expansive
kitchen island that extends across the tall and grand kitchen runs
parallel to a broad view of the rear garden and makes the kitchen a
bright and pleasant room that is just as much a social space as a
working area.
With this architectural language of deep spaces and extensive
windows, dramatic linear vistas of the gardens that surround the house
are framed. The views to the greenery provide a sense of serenity and
reflection to the inhabitants and ground them to their environment. The
culmination of these views occurs in the master bedroom that runs across
the entire front façade of the top storey with a singular horizontal
opening across its frontage. This broad window takes in a spectacular
and uninterrupted view of the suburban skyline beyond.
Although the house was designed as an integrated experience of
the architecture, interior and landscape design, each discipline has its
unique expression and concept; the architecture with its rugged
concrete aesthetic and expressed construction process, the landscape
with four levels of distinct solutions for different spatial objectives
using a variety of tropical landscape strategies, and the interiors with
a tapestry of personal artifacts that subtly convey the history of the
family.”
Photos by: Aaron Pocock
Source : homedsgn.com
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