The design intention was to start the journey of an honest discovery of the existing apartment; embraced by a bucolic environment, layered with the modern lifestyle of the young family.
How do we design a hair salon in a post pandemic world? We took advantage of the current situation to design an exclusive experience for customers in a hair salon.
In this walk-up apartment, four columns demarcated the centre of the unit. We inserted a main social space within these four columns, and articulated the rest of the home around it. The corners of the social space are rounded to embrace the space.
The landscaped double skin strategy and its effective biophilic and microclimatic effects show that there are still new ways to create tropical architecture in a dense urban environment like Singapore.
