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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. PROJECT #11 in Singapore by Studio Wills + ArchitectsApril 9th, 2019 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Studio Wills + Architects PROJECT #11 is an interior renovation to a 4-bedroom apartment for its new home owners, a couple whom entertains frequently. To make way for a larger space to entertain and lounge around, 4 former bedrooms were reduced to 2 through the demolition of internal walls. This demolition lead to the discovery of the inherent structure of the apartment; It being supported by structural shear walls. This discovery lead to the concept of Walls as Spatial Organizers and Dividers in this open-plan apartment.  Leaving behind the Lounge, one re-enters the Living lined with white walls. Beyond the Black Wall is the Dining, Image Courtesy © Studio Wills + Architects
 Arriving at the Foyer, lined with a timber paneled wall, is a glimpse of the Living bathed in abundant daylight. Beyond a grey fin wall is the Lounge, Image Courtesy © Studio Wills + Architects A structural shear wall, that was left to stand in the center of the apartment after the demolition, was rendered black for visual focus and serves as a point of orientation in the apartment. It is a backdrop for a primarily black-colour home entertainment system in the lounge, minimizing its physical presence. In the Dining, it serves as a backdrop for an antique piano and Chinese Calligraphy inherited from the owner’s families.  Pass the Foyer, one steps into the Living. The Lounge, lined by the Black Wall and anchored by a grey fin wall, opens up, Image Courtesy © Studio Wills + Architects  The journey through the apartment folds back unto the Foyer; the spatial composition of the apartment, defined by a continuous plane of white oak timber floor and white-painted ceiling anchored in places by walls of various colour and textures, reveals in its entirety, Image Courtesy © Studio Wills + Architects A series of grey plaster and white painted walls radiate from this Black Wall to define the Foyer, Living, Lounge and Dining. These walls reveal and conceal the spaces it defines and changes one’s perception of them as one moves around the apartment. 2 horizontal ‘planes’, a white oak timber floor and a white-painted ceiling, connect all the spaces in this apartment in a singular gesture. The result is a continuum of free-flowing spaces in a muted palette, accented in places by walls in a variety of colours and textures. These walls characterize the space it shapes and defines; a suitably blank canvas for the owner’s collection of furniture and home furnishing of different era and genre of styles; antique and modern, mid-century and contemporary.  Stepping into the Dining, a white wall connects the Dining and Master bedroom visually. An adjacent grey wall, is a backdrop for a painting of complementing texture, Image Courtesy © Studio Wills + Architects  Leaving behind the Master Bedroom, one re-enters the Dining . The Black Wall, a backdrop for an antique upright piano and Chinese Calligraphy, conceals while revealing the Lounge beyond, Image Courtesy © Studio Wills + Architects  A white wall runs from the Dining and culminates at the Master Bedroom; an all-white space with filtered daylight, Image Courtesy © Studio Wills + Architects  Advancing further into the Dining, one catches a glimpse of the kitchen behind a grey wall, Image Courtesy © Studio Wills + Architects  In the Dining, a display case built into an existing bay-window houses an extensive collection of wine glasses, Image Courtesy © Studio Wills + Architects  The Bath in a muted palette of materials, continues the understated and pared down interior quality of the apartment, Image Courtesy © Studio Wills + Architects  Layout Plan (before renovation), Image Courtesy © Studio Wills + Architects  Layout Plan (after renovation), Image Courtesy © Studio Wills + Architects  These walls reveal and conceal the spaces it defines and changes one’s perception of them as one moves around the apartment, Image Courtesy © Studio Wills + Architects  A series of grey and white walls radiate from this Black Wall to define the Foyer, Living, Lounge and Dining, Image Courtesy © Studio Wills + Architects  The wall is rendered black for visual focus and serves as a point of orientation in the apartment, Image Courtesy © Studio Wills + Architects  To accentuate the quality of openness, a continuous plane of ceiling and floor was introduced to connect all the spaces in a singular gesture, Image Courtesy © Studio Wills + Architects  The former apartment had limited space to entertain and lounge, Image Courtesy © Studio Wills + Architects  To make way for a larger space to entertain and lounge, 4 former bedrooms were reduced to 2 through the demolition of internal walls, leaving behind a structural shear wall in the center of the apartment, Image Courtesy © Studio Wills + Architects
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