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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. NEST HOUSE in SINGAPORE by WOHAJuly 27th, 2013 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: WOHA This house is part of a family compound, and expresses the owner’s close relationship with her grandfather who has his own house within the compound. The design reflects the close bond between the grandfather and granddaughter by orientating the main spaces towards his house and gardens. The living spaces on the ground floor open up to the sprawling gardens, while the elevated private rooms of the owner and her children are sheltered by a gentle curved screen. The shared gardens are akin to a forest with the rooms like bird nests perched amongst the trees.  Image Courtesy © Patrick Bingham – Hall
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 Image Courtesy © Patrick Bingham – Hall The expression of house refers to bark, branches and twigs. These components achieve a delicate complexity. The rooms are wrapped with a curved textured screen in a timber and aluminium woven lattice in different lengths and diameters. Other than an abstract feature, the screen serves varied functions – It is a porous layer protecting the rooms from weather and glare while allowing filtered daylight and ventilation through; It mediates the privacy of the space behind by adjusting the intensity of its members; It doubles up as a safety barrier at the windows and attic terrace. The play in lines, edges and shadows is extended to the side walls clad in modular timber profiles and panels.  Image Courtesy © Patrick Bingham – Hall The blade walls on which the rooms are perched are given a textured bark-like quality with randomly stacked modular blocks in stone and pre-cast concrete. Orientated with its axis along East-West, the staggered profile of the blade walls, coupled with deep canopies and full height windows, catch and bounce day light and cross-breezes in and through the house’s double volumes. This tropical house within an extended family compound, uniquely expresses its Singaporean environment, culture and context.  Image Courtesy © Patrick Bingham – Hall  Image Courtesy © Patrick Bingham – Hall  Image Courtesy © Patrick Bingham – Hall  Image Courtesy © Patrick Bingham – Hall  Image Courtesy © Patrick Bingham – Hall  Image Courtesy © Patrick Bingham – Hall  Image Courtesy © Patrick Bingham – Hall  Image Courtesy © Patrick Bingham – Hall  Image Courtesy © Patrick Bingham – Hall  Image Courtesy © Patrick Bingham – Hall  Image Courtesy © Patrick Bingham – Hall  Image Courtesy © WOHA  Image Courtesy © WOHA  Image Courtesy © WOHA  Image Courtesy © WOHA
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