A three-storey family home in Singapore filled with local, contemporary art
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A three-storey family home in Singapore filled with local, contemporary art
After upgrading from a semi-detached house to a bungalow, a homeowner took the opportunity to start a collection of works by local artists, which he enjoys together with his married woman and two daughters.
The firm is designed by ZA Architects, who had too designed the owner's onetime home. (Photo: SEECK Photography)
30 January 2022 06:30AM (Updated: 09 Jul 2022 01:20AM)
It is non often that when visiting a home, the owner hands you a printed brochure that details the art collection in his firm. But it was the case for this discrete bungalow that belongs to the CEO of a boutique advisory firm. He is a firm supporter of the local, contemporary art scene and wanted his new firm to be a canvass for this cause.
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The artwork in this home is varied, and not presented in a sterile style similar in a white box gallery. Instead, both fine art and compages fuse into a sleek simply too inviting environment. The business firm is designed by ZA Architects, who had likewise designed the possessor's former domicile.
"We got to know the owners well during the structure of the first house and realised that they were pretty open-minded about ideas on spatial design and materials. So when the opportunity came to design their side by side house, we were prepared to offering a different design approach, which reflects their improved standard of living and lifestyle," said Stan Lee, a partner at the Singapore-based firm.
For the former habitation, he was engaged to renovate a semi-detached firm. The outside was pleasant – though none too exciting – with cream-coloured paint and timber accents.
This new house is a detached bungalow on i,168sqm of land. Autonomously from larger rooms and communal areas, it too gives the occupants more space for exercise and relaxation amenities.
"During the design procedure, the possessor sought our stance on the pieces of art and sculpture they intended to buy for the new house. We then decided to use off-form concrete, steel and glass, hoping to create contrast and accentuate these art pieces where appropriate inside and exterior the firm," said Lee.
The possessor lives here with his wife and 2 teenage daughters.
"I accept a small family so I didn't need to maximise the gross flooring area. Half the land is for recreation," he shared. The division of land reads literally in programme, with the built-upwards spaces running down one side of the land's length, and the pool and garden down the other.
At the stop of the garden is a swing fix he built for his daughters. The pool has a 30m-long side for serious laps as well every bit a section that extends toward the firm with a Jacuzzi and shallower band. When the daughters were young, they spent plenty of time in the latter, looked upon by the adults from the pool deck.
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In the garden is local artist Yeo Chee Kiong's Pet sculpture from his Platonic Lady Series. The cluster of stainless steel bubbles appears to levitate, and tin can be seen from the street through drinking glass balustrades. The metallic smoothen and rotund forms contrast with the lush landscape and indigestible compages.
The garden and master parts of the business firm are raised above a basement that meets the road level. This gives the occupants more privacy. In the eight-car garage, the owner highlighted a gym corner.
"My daughters are both basketball players and I exercise quite a fair bit of sports," he said of this well-used part of the abode.
Lee divided the house into a front end and rear bock. The sometime stacks a basement entertainment room, the living room and principal bedroom. The latter tucks a guest room into the basement, a dining and kitchen on the start storey and the daughters' bedrooms and a shared written report on the 2d storey.
In between the two blocks is a landscaped courtyard in the basement. The owner initially wanted to construct a large treehouse hither for his daughters just the fengshui principal said information technology was inauspicious so he changed it into a Zen garden with a chessboard aesthetic. It brings plenty of daylight into the facing invitee room and amusement room, equally well as provides pleasant views to admire from above.
A mesh-and-glass corridor separates the living room from the dining room on the starting time floor. This gives the occupants a dose of sunshine, green views and a panorama of garden art each time they traverse between the spaces. Two spiral staircases – one from the basement and another to the roof terrace – dilate this ambulatory movement.
"The external steel spiral staircases are used to mediate levels and more chiefly, to add interest equally an external architectural element. Monochrome and greyscale marble and timber for the floors and cabinetry are used extensively in the interior," said Lee on the minimal palette.
In the garage behind a screened antechamber, heralded by April Ng's whimsical drawing Creating Space, one door opens to the entertainment room, and some other to a staircase that leads to the first storey.
Singapore Cultural Medallion-winner Tan Swie Hian's calligraphic piece of work Dragon Cypress anchors the start of this staircase, complete with a plaque on the wall describing the piece like in an art gallery as part of the owner's desire to share with guests his interests.
In the entertainment room is some other work by Tan Swie Hian. Sinstral Conch Stupa is the offset of many Buddhist art pieces that the owner would collect over the years for aesthetic rather than religious purposes. Its colourful palette enlivens the room, simply similar Yeo Chee Kiong's anime-inspired Future Weapon, Missile Mazinger artwork across the space.
While in the one-time home, the living room was a double-volume infinite and the master bedroom of single-storey height, the inverse happens hither. The living room height is slightly compressed in social club to comply with the Urban Redevelopment Authorisation'south guidelines on the overall summit of the house.
Lee compensates this with reflections from a water feature in the balcony and reflective ceilings, both of which give the illusion of spaciousness. From the planter in the pond arises a large Bonsai establish that the possessor views every bit another piece of work of art, and which he took a long fourth dimension to find.
This strategy of expanding infinite upward continues in the 5m-high master bedchamber. Here, Lee inserted a loft containing the owner's written report. Adjacent to the bed, a pond in the balcony reflects the heaven through an discontinuity in the ceiling.
While the placement of several water elements around the house was for fengshui reasons, this particular feature was purely for the possessor's appreciation. "I like water, and enjoy sitting outside to enjoy the feature," he shared. The abundance of water gives the firm a tranquil atmosphere.
The roof terrace is the best place to view some other water feature with a mosaic artwork in the garden.
"The idea came about after the owner visited Japanese architect Tadao Ando's Kyoto Garden of Fine Arts. He selected Claude Monet'due south Span over a Pond of Water Lilies equally [the epitome for] the underwater mosaic artwork. Its position just next to the pool and outdoor dining expanse is a conversation piece when the owners host dinners," said Lee.
This water feature was the kickoff piece of fine art in the domicile. "After the possessor moved in and got a sense of the spaces, more sculptures and paintings were introduced at strategic locations," said Lee.
The business firm is not filled to the brim with art, only each is thoughtfully placed and is an interesting commentary on Singapore'southward social, historical and physical narrative. Information technology is easy to understand how guests might arrive enticed by the bold architecture but leave with a deeper appreciation of local fine art.
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