'Concrete, glass, timber and steel meet space, light and nature'. This house is any urban city dweller's dream: to live in a forest setting, at one with nature, and quite possibly an architect’s interpretations of this dream.
This Singaporean house was conceived as a three-dimensional landscape installation, whereby the spaces were then inserted. The space features interchangeable rooms floating in a bigger volume of space with a 2-storey high retaining wall at the rear, transformed into a pebbled waterfall that opens up to the sky. There is also a pond in the living area that collects rainwater.
The house also boasts a rich arrangement of garden types; a kitchen entrance grove of trees, a 2-storey internal enclosure of fern walls to the living spaces, moss pebble entrances to bedrooms. the inhabitants of this house will smell the wet soil in the air, pick and clear up dead leaves while the plants grow and mature. This is part of the design's living, organic quality.
The need for air-conditioning and artificial lighting are reduced thanks to the configurations of the spaces and luxuriant use of plants and water elements, which generate a cool microclimate within the house.
+ images courtesy of WAN
What initally caught my eye with this project was the image of the kitchen above with grove trees growing through the floor to ceiling. I recently travelled to the Yucatan province of Mexico which is reknowned for it's lime stone caves. I snorkled in one and what intrigued me were the roots of trees growing directly through the limestone roof and dangling into the fresh water (see below). I wondered if anyone had used this in a design before and I think this may be the closest I have found yet.
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