An exercise in materiality and context, the 1000m2 penthouse sits on the idyllic edge of Sentosa, with a view of Lazarus and St John Island.
The clients are a young couple in the creative industry. Their previous house was a HDB intermediate terrace, and thus were used to having a roomy house, with a balance mix of indoor and outdoor space.
The Glass Block house is a reconstruction of an existing 2-storey semi-detached house to create an additional floor.
A small bricked, 2-storey conserved bungalow sits atop a 30-metre-wide by 100-metre-long slopping site. Elevated 12 meters high at the North, the 20th century Plantation Estate overlooks large terracing grass fields which terminates southwards into a luscious mixture of mature tropical trees such as Tembusu, Angsana, Ficus and Palms.
Nowhere Baths, by Type 0 Architects, is a gender-inclusive bathhouse in Singapore where sculpted architecture, sensory immersion, and tropical landscape converge to create an elemental, reflective, and restorative bathing experience.
