Studio Wills + Architects

Project #11

Project #11

Project #11

Studio Wills + Architects

STATUS
Built

AREA
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

YEAR
2018

LOCATION
Singapore

TYPE
Residential › Apartment

PROJECT #11 is an interior renovation to a 4-bedroom apartment for its new home owners: a couple whom entertains frequently.

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To make way for a larger space to entertain and lounge around, 4 former bedrooms were reduced to 2 through the demolition of internal walls.

This demolition led to the discovery of the inherent structure of the apartment. It is supported by structural shear walls.

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The concept of using Walls as Spatial Organizers and Dividers in this open-plan apartment was then conceived.

A structural shear wall, that was left to stand in the center of the apartment after the demolition, was rendered black for visual focus and serves as a point of orientation in the apartment.

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It is a backdrop for a primarily black-colour home entertainment system in the lounge, minimizing its physical presence. In the Dining, it serves as a backdrop for an antique piano and Chinese Calligraphy inherited from the owner’s families.

A series of grey plaster and white painted walls radiate from this Black Wall to define the Foyer, Living, Lounge and Dining.

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These walls reveal and conceal the spaces it defines and changes one’s perception of them as one moves around the apartment. 2 horizontal ‘planes’, a white oak timber floor and a white-painted ceiling, connect all the spaces in this apartment in a singular gesture.

The result is a continuum of free-flowing spaces in a muted palette, accented in places by walls in a variety of colours and textures.

These walls act as a suitably blank canvas for the owner’s collection of furniture and home furnishing of different era and genre of styles; antique and modern, mid-century and contemporary.

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Studio Wills + Architects
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