For this multigenerational family, home is an oval-shaped Good Class Bungalow

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For this multigenerational family, home is an oval-shaped Good Class Bungalow

Architectural house RT+Q designed an unusual elliptical house for its well-travelled owners to bask in nature and fine art, together with the whole family.

14 Feb 2022 06:30AM (Updated: xvi Aug 2022 10:26AM)

Equally far as architectural designs go, the Sanctum House definitely defies conventional formulae. The owner loves nature and curves, then the entire Adept Class Bungalow is a play of a key elliptical volume with three radiating boxes situated amid lush greenery.

When the owner was planning to rebuild the house, the brief was a home that was "anarchistic and curvy" and focused on functionality as much as aesthetics.

The owners' brief chosen for a abode that was "anarchistic and curvy". (Photo: Threesixzero Productions)

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Knowing that the owner was a global traveller who had seen a lot of architecture and owned a substantial number of artworks, architectural firm RT+Q took up the challenge to remember out of the box.

"Rather than embellishing the house with curves, nosotros thought that the elliptical form was advisable considering of the site's proximity to [a park]," said Rene Tan, manager of RT+Q. "Its soft form lent a certain aspect of comfort physically as well as visually."

For one multigenerational family in Singapore, abode is an unusual elliptical building with three 'fingers' radiating from the centre. And at the core of the ellipse lies a surprise. Find out what that is in this video.

The end result is a delightful and tranquil residence for the multigenerational family unit, who spends most of their time in the living and dining areas, where large floor-to-ceiling windows offer panoramic 180-degree views of the lush outdoors.

Curved windows wrap around the living room and master bedchamber, reflecting the natural light and helping to bring the greenery indoors. In that location are cosy nooks for the family to hang out together, and for the children to accept lessons or their own personal play time.

The family spends most of their fourth dimension in the living and dining areas. (Photo: Threesixzero Productions)

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The heart of the business firm – and one could say, its soul – is the sanctum, a 12m-high white volume with glass bridges that traverse the beginning and second levels. It was supposed to incorporate art, simply its current bare walls, illuminated by a cross-shaped skylight aperture, makes it a worthy fine art piece in itself.

Associate architect Koh Sock Mui sees the sanctum equally a purifying transitional space. "When you lot come in, you can leave everything that you've been through the whole day. Y'all walk through information technology and come out feeling refreshed considering it'south such a pure white infinite," she shared.

The heart of the business firm – and ane could say, its soul – is the sanctum, a 12m-high white book. (Photograph: Threesixzero Productions)

There is a constant element of exploration equally form and function meld together in this dwelling house. Besides the sanctum, apertures and skylights are also institute in the basement, at the front entrance, the master bathroom and its walk-in wardrobe.

They create spatial surprises that add elements of fun and discovery to different areas of the house, allowing people to appoint with the architecture, explained Koh.

The owners are avid art collectors. (Photo: Threesixzero Productions)

"You get used to seeing a wall equally a wall, a door as a door. Only when you practice something a piffling unlike to information technology, it actually catches your [middle] and yous get a bit more interested and engage with the architecture."

For instance, the door to an elliptical powder room is fabricated to blend subtly into the wall, while a gentle push on a piece of art reveals its function equally a doorway to a bedroom.

The basement entertainment room. (Photograph: Threesixzero Productions)

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The cantilevered pool is some other visual surprise. It not merely creates the illusion of floating in the air, it is also angled such that the family unit enjoy privacy still accept an unblocked view while pond.

Koh added, "We enclosed the whole [pool] in this laser cut steel motif to give a sense of enclosure without cutting off the outside."

Floor-to-ceiling windows offer panoramic 180-caste views of the lush outdoors. (Photo: Threesixzero Productions)

The beauty of Sanctum House's architecture lies in the stories it tells virtually its inhabitants and the site they live on.

Koh said, "You go on discovering the compages in different means, at different times of the 24-hour interval, at different times of the year, and so on and and then forth. Information technology makes the place lively and live."

The cantilevered puddle not only creates the illusion of floating in the air, it is also angled such that the family enjoy privacy nevertheless have an unblocked view while swimming. (Photo: Threesixzero Productions)

Adapted from the serial Remarkable Living (Flavour 3). Watch full episodes on CNA, every Dominicus at 8.30pm.

For this multigenerational family, home is an oval-shaped Good Class Bungalow

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