Green Grass of Home
A garden with a house is the best way to describe this Siglap dwelling.
THERE ARE TERRACE houses and houses with terraces, but deep in the heart of Siglap stands a terrace house with terraces - and plants, lots of plants.
Dealing with the constraints of building a house on a narrow strip of land wedged between two single-storey homes is not uncommon in land-scarce Singapore, but architect Carl Lim faced an additional challenge. Owner Allan Loh spent much of his life in homes with green environments, and he voiced a desire "to live in a house full of trees and shrubs", with views of greenery from every room.
The solution was to build a multi-layered home, conceived as a chest of drawers such that the 'drawers' (planter boxes in this case) look like they have been pulled open to achieve a terraced effect, not unlike a layered wedding cake. The ground-floor footprint measures just 6m wide by 21m long, with each of two upper-level interiors smaller in area than the level below. Still, the finished …
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