Chiltern House
齐尔顿别墅

Singapore新加坡 Private Residence私人住宅 493 M² Architecture, Interior & Landscape Design建筑设计, 室内设计, 园景设计 2010-2013

The spaces in this family home on Chiltern Drive in central Singapore were crafted like a garment, woven around the needs and desires of its inhabitants. The home aspired to be deeply rooted, connected to the surrounding environment, the history of its development, as well as the family’s lifestyle.

The house was constructed as a single monolithic concrete structure. The woven steel reinforcement and raw timber formwork into which the concrete was cast have imprinted the process of building into its surfaces, with rugged lines in the concrete and hints of steel reinforcement in the walls and ledges. As the early morning sun casts shadows across the textured horizontal bands left behind in the concrete where the timber formwork once was, the memory of the construction process itself marks the passing of time and reminds the family of the effort, desire, and realization of their dream.

The spaces within and around the house were designed for each family member to enjoy their own privacy and commune with nature, as well as spaces where they could meaningfully come together in the creation and continuation of family rituals around meals, greetings, and homecomings. The house is articulated around a square geometry in plan, but the spatial arrangement within this straightforward framework is a complex interplay of large and deep spaces and connections that stretch across the length of the house in various directions. These elongated rooms draw the eye across them, at times relating to the views of the garden, across extended windows that skirt the skyline and horizon or to focus the exaggerated perspectives on select elements within a room. These visual connections within the rooms as well as from space to space help to unite the inhabitants and make them aware of each other’s movements within the house as well as strongly link the house to its surrounding environment.

The living and dining rooms are connected in one continuous space with a swimming pool at one end and a rear garden at the other. Along the length of the room, a low bay window ledge cast into the folds of the wall and a long horizontal window opening provide an intimate and direct connection to the landscape, as well as casual seating that can comfortably accommodate one or many people. Similarly, the expansive kitchen island that extends across the tall and grand kitchen runs parallel to a broad view of the rear garden and makes the kitchen a bright and pleasant room that is just as much a social space as a working area.

With this architectural language of deep spaces and extensive windows, dramatic linear vistas of the gardens that surround the house are framed. The views to the greenery provide a sense of serenity and reflection to the inhabitants and ground them to their environment. The culmination of these views occurs in the master bedroom that runs across the entire front façade of the top storey with a singular horizontal opening across its frontage. This broad window takes in a spectacular and uninterrupted view of the suburban skyline beyond.

Although the house was designed as an integrated experience of the architecture, interior and landscape design, each discipline has its unique expression and concept; the architecture with its rugged concrete aesthetic and expressed construction process, the landscape with four levels of distinct solutions for different spatial objectives using a variety of tropical landscape strategies, and the interiors with a tapestry of personal artifacts that subtly convey the history of the family.

LANDSCAPE

The design objective was to integrate landscaping into many aspects of daily life to foster awareness of the environment and enhance the sense of wellbeing through a deep connection to nature.

The design process included extensive visits to nurseries, botanical gardens and working sessions with the landscape builder.

The placement of plants and water features to enhance awareness of the wind, clouds sky. Each of the landscape areas in the house has a direct relationship to a space extensively used on a daily basis.
The pool was placed at the front boundary where the sight and sound of a glistening water wall creates a separation from the outside when approaching the cool quiet entrance.

Living Areas with high ceilings and an eye level bay window are encircled by flowering shrubs along the perimeter, the abundant garden becomes the dominant element of the room at night where lighting emphasizes the long leaves of yellow iris reminiscent of a rice field.
An Edible Kitchen Garden including fruit trees and herbs was introduced to draw out the cook to care for, be inspired by and cultivate food.

Along the East and West boundaries, concrete walls are punctured by large openings for cross ventilation in the central study space.

A cable supported landscape screen wraps the sides of the building to provide privacy, protection from direct East and West sunlight and a visual connection with the garden in a narrow space. Integration of Structure, Irrigation, Drainage, soil beds and lighting in a 150mm wide space required prototyping, customization and testing.

The attic was designed as a retreat, disconnected from the world below. A rooftop water Lily Pond, built with an eco-filtration system that requires nearly no maintenance, provides a steady source of nutrition for the small fish that attract myriad varieties of birds.

在这间位于新加坡中部齐顿通道(Chiltern Drive)上的房子里,空间仿如一件量身定做的服装,围绕着居住者的需要和愿望编织而成。让家居设计与周围的环境、房子的建造过程和家庭的生活方式环环紧扣,层层交融,是这个项目的目标。

房子是一座单一的整体混凝土结构,利用钢筋和原木模板浇筑混凝土而成。如此,建构过程全被压印在混凝土的表面上,除了高低起伏的线条显然易见,在墙壁和窗台上更显露着钢筋的痕迹。当清晨的阳光投影在原木模板所留下的横向纹理上时,施工过程本身的印记诉说着时间的流逝,并提醒每个家庭成员曾经为自己的梦想之家所付出的努力,对它的向往,以及最后如何实现梦想。

房子的室内外空间设计能让每个家庭成员享受独处,并融入大自然。同时,我们设计了多个不同的空间,让他们能够全心全意地聚在一起,在用餐、节日道贺和久别回家时,创造和延续家庭传统习俗。房子的平面图虽然以简单的正方几何形状为中心,但在这个简单的结构下,宽阔深入的空间和连结点从不同方向横跨房子的长度,使空间布局出现复杂的相互作用。这些细长的房间吸引视线伸展至不同的焦点,有时是园景,有时是面向天际线和水平线的窗台,也有时是房间内某些指定物件的夸张视角。这些于房间内和空间之间的视觉上联系,有助于团结居住者并使他们留意彼此在房子内的动静,同时强化房子和周围环境的关系。

客厅和餐厅的空间是相连的,前方为游泳池,另一端为后花园。沿着房间的长度而建造的,是与墙壁一体成型的近地面飘窗窗台、让居住者与户外景观直接紧密地联系的横向长窗,以及可舒适地容纳单人或群体的休闲座位。同样地,优雅宽敞的厨房里设有广阔的厨房岛台,与窗外后花园的景色并列,让厨房明亮怡人,既是工作区,也是社交空间。

在这种深邃的空间和宽阔窗户的建筑语言下,房子周围的花园被框景成线性的戏剧性景观。绿色园景给居住者一份宁静的感觉和回忆的空间,让他们对环境产生归属感。主卧室是这些景色的荟集之处,单一的大型横向窗户占据顶楼的建筑正面,让居住者能够欣赏城郊壮丽延绵的天际线。

虽然这个项目以达到综合式的建筑、室内和景观设计体验为目标,但是每一个范畴都有其独特的表达手法和概念:建筑设计呈现出不修边幅的混凝土美学和一目了然的施工过程;景观设计采用了多种不同的热带景观策略,创造出四层清晰分明的解决方案,以达到不同的空间目标;而室内设计则由多种私人艺术收藏品拼凑而成,隐约地传达了屋主的家族历史。

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