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An open dining and kitchen level with a glass-topped table, orange moulded chairs, a black-and-white striped column and a varnished timber stair rising behind a glass balustrade.

Bukit Batok · 2016

The outside stayed;

the inside was rebuilt

around one room

A landed house whose exterior was left broadly as it was, and whose interior was rebuilt around one vertical space. A curved screen of walnut battens wraps the landing above the double-height living room, so the upper level reads as a gallery over it rather than a corridor beside it.

The additions do not pretend the original house is not there. Upstairs, programme matters as much as bedrooms: the cinema has no daylight, is not asked to have any, and takes the one saturated colour in the house.

A double-height living room with a cream leather sofa, a full-width media wall lit from behind, marble flooring and folding glazed doors open to a covered car porch.
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A bedroom with a grey upholstered headboard, brown silk curtains over a full-height window, dark timber strip flooring and a white lacquer desk with a mustard chair.
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The living room runs the full height of two floors and opens through folding glazed doors to the porch. Outside, a flat steel-framed glass canopy is set below the original moulded gable rather than across it.

The addition stops

short of the gable

Colour is loose,

never built in

An upper landing behind a glass balustrade, a curved timber slat screen enclosing the stair void and a timber handrail returning down.
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The stair void seen from the landing, a curved drum of timber slats screening it and a map applied to the wall beyond.
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Everything fitted is white lacquer, dark veneer or black stone — the drawers under the basins, the desk in the bedroom. What carries colour moves: a mustard chair, brown silk at the window, orange shells downstairs.

Details

An upper-floor gym with a treadmill and cross trainer on a matted floor, beside the curved timber slat screen at the stair.

01The void

A double-height living space with a starburst pendant hung in the void, timber slat screens to the upper landing, and a dining table with orange chairs beyond.
  • Living room running the full height of two floors
  • Curved screen of walnut battens wrapping the landing
  • Upper level reading as a gallery over the room
  • Varnished timber stair behind a glass balustrade
  • Full-width media wall lit from behind

02The original house

A car porch under a flat steel-framed glass canopy, with a timber entrance door, grey aluminium folding doors and the original moulded gable rising above.
  • Exterior left broadly as it was
  • Moulded gable retained above the porch
  • Flat steel-framed glass canopy set below it
  • Grey aluminium folding doors to the car porch
  • Timber entrance door

03Materials

A bathroom with twin white vessel basins on a black stone top over white lacquer drawers, a walnut open shelf set between mirrored cabinets and a glazed shower alongside.
  • White marble through the ground floor
  • Red-toned hardwood stair, warm parquet above
  • Dark timber strip flooring to the bedrooms
  • White lacquer, dark veneer and black steel to the joinery
  • Black stone top with twin white vessel basins
  • Walnut open shelf between mirrored cabinets

04Colour and programme

A home cinema with two rows of tan leather recliners facing a projection screen, blackout curtaining, framed film posters and a ceiling-mounted projector.
  • Orange moulded chairs at the glass-topped dining table
  • Black-and-white striped column on the kitchen level
  • Mustard chair at a white lacquer desk
  • Brown silk curtains over a full-height window
  • Home cinema with no daylight and none asked for
  • Two rows of tan leather recliners under blackout curtaining

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