Sustainable and Futuristic Home
Here’s a house with gardens on all three levels designed and built in Sentosa Island, Singapore. Area 852 sq. meters. Gross area 654 sq. meters.
It includes a large stone-lined swimming pool that can be viewed from inside the building at basement level through a large glazed window. A staircase with a glass balustrade and wooden steps snakes across the stairwell. The curved roof at the top is also covered in grass and affords views of the bay beyond. This garden house is located on a new housing estate on the island of Sentosa adjacent to Singapore. The plots are not large and neighboring buildings are built close to the sides of each house. The strategy was to build a solid wall to each side neighbor to provide privacy where possible, while creating a central light and stair well which would funnel the sea breeze through the center of the building. The front and rear of the building meanwhile, terrace back allowing each storey to have visual or actual access to greenery. The intention was to try to allow each roof garden provided a base for the storey above allowing the layered effect to make each storey feel like it was a single storey dwelling sitting in a garden as much as they could do in the close confines of Sentosa island and with such a large building.
