A TRULY TERRACED HOUSE
The design of 23 Olive Road derives mainly from the topography and site context. As the site is steeply sloping, the house is broken down into layers of terraces. It is envisioned as a series of terraces of “pavilions” that is composed together to form the house.
There is a purposeful desire to retain the clear reading of the “pavilions” hence the house was structured around the device of blade walls cladded in Quartz tiles. These Blade Walls clearly define the change in functional spaces and the physical heights to the “pavilions”. The tall blade walls are robust in structure, giving the house its unique identity in the neighbourhood. They form interstitial spaces where skylight and full height glazing bathe the spaces in daylight.
The main part of the house is in the form of an L-shape around the garden with a vantage view of the swimming pool and greenery from all rooms in the project. The house opens up to embrace the garden and the borrowed panorama of the surroundings, whilst maintaining privacy for the client along Olive Road. This planning revolves around the spirit of living in tropical climate where the interface between interior and exterior is celebrated through the intention to link the interior spaces with the outdoors and allowing the clients to open up their spaces for cross ventilation.
"Addressing the changes in the topography, the house is broken down into layers of terraces. It is envisioned as a series of terraces of “pavilions” that is composed together to form the house."
Externally, the development commands a stately view from Thomson road. The use of alternating sliding timber screen enhances the façade of the house as it transforms at different times based on the inhabitant’s desires for shade or privacy. The use of screens introduces filtered light into the bedrooms and bathroom creating a complex play of lights and shadows.
Beyond the filtering of light, these timber screens act as privacy screens. The use of embracing green, screens and pavillions orchestrates subtle changes to the house at different times of the day accentuating the client’s tropical living, providing a private, exclusive and unique home.
A TRULY TERRACED HOUSE
The design of 23 Olive Road derives mainly from the topography and site context. As the site is steeply sloping, the house is broken down into layers of terraces. It is envisioned as a series of terraces of “pavilions” that is composed together to form the house.
There is a purposeful desire to retain the clear reading of the “pavilions” hence the house was structured around the device of blade walls cladded in Quartz tiles. These Blade Walls clearly define the change in functional spaces and the physical heights to the “pavilions”. The tall blade walls are robust in structure, giving the house its unique identity in the neighbourhood. They form interstitial spaces where skylight and full height glazing bathe the spaces in daylight.
The main part of the house is in the form of an L-shape around the garden with a vantage view of the swimming pool and greenery from all rooms in the project. The house opens up to embrace the garden and the borrowed panorama of the surroundings, whilst maintaining privacy for the client along Olive Road. This planning revolves around the spirit of living in tropical climate where the interface between interior and exterior is celebrated through the intention to link the interior spaces with the outdoors and allowing the clients to open up their spaces for cross ventilation.
"Addressing the changes in the topography, the house is broken down into layers of terraces. It is envisioned as a series of terraces of “pavilions” that is composed together to form the house."
Externally, the development commands a stately view from Thomson road. The use of alternating sliding timber screen enhances the façade of the house as it transforms at different times based on the inhabitant’s desires for shade or privacy. The use of screens introduces filtered light into the bedrooms and bathroom creating a complex play of lights and shadows.
Beyond the filtering of light, these timber screens act as privacy screens. The use of embracing green, screens and pavillions orchestrates subtle changes to the house at different times of the day accentuating the client’s tropical living, providing a private, exclusive and unique home.
A TRULY TERRACED HOUSE
The design of 23 Olive Road derives mainly from the topography and site context. As the site is steeply sloping, the house is broken down into layers of terraces. It is envisioned as a series of terraces of “pavilions” that is composed together to form the house.
There is a purposeful desire to retain the clear reading of the “pavilions” hence the house was structured around the device of blade walls cladded in Quartz tiles. These Blade Walls clearly define the change in functional spaces and the physical heights to the “pavilions”. The tall blade walls are robust in structure, giving the house its unique identity in the neighbourhood. They form interstitial spaces where skylight and full height glazing bathe the spaces in daylight.
The main part of the house is in the form of an L-shape around the garden with a vantage view of the swimming pool and greenery from all rooms in the project. The house opens up to embrace the garden and the borrowed panorama of the surroundings, whilst maintaining privacy for the client along Olive Road. This planning revolves around the spirit of living in tropical climate where the interface between interior and exterior is celebrated through the intention to link the interior spaces with the outdoors and allowing the clients to open up their spaces for cross ventilation.
"Addressing the changes in the topography, the house is broken down into layers of terraces. It is envisioned as a series of terraces of “pavilions” that is composed together to form the house."
Externally, the development commands a stately view from Thomson road. The use of alternating sliding timber screen enhances the façade of the house as it transforms at different times based on the inhabitant’s desires for shade or privacy. The use of screens introduces filtered light into the bedrooms and bathroom creating a complex play of lights and shadows.
Beyond the filtering of light, these timber screens act as privacy screens. The use of embracing green, screens and pavillions orchestrates subtle changes to the house at different times of the day accentuating the client’s tropical living, providing a private, exclusive and unique home.
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