“Houses with No Boundaries”
“Nestled in a leafy upscale suburb a few kilometres west of Singapore’s Central Business District, the Lien Collective is an unusual housing development,consisting of six modern houses built on plots subdivided from the garden of the Lien family’s colonial bungalow. Such a division of a big plot of land, originally belonging to an old colonial bungalow,into smaller parcels for single-family houses is not unprecedented inland-scarce Singapore, but what is unprecedented, at least in the local. From a Colonial Bungalow to Six Modern Houses”
8 Box House by Po Design
The Cubic House by Zarch Collaboratives
“Some of Singapore’s best surviving examples of colonial bungalows are to be found in the Holland Park area, especially on Ridout and Swettenham Roads, including ‘Black and White bungalows’,two or three tropical Arts and Crafts houses by Frank Brewer and an early modern ocean-liner inspired house with a circular motif. Although not one of the bungalows gazetted for conservation by the URA, the original Lien family’s colonial bungalow – with its brick buttresses, arches and exposed brickwork – is stylistically similar to Frank Brewer’s Arts and Crafts houses of the 1930s.”
The Screen House by K2LD
The Raw House MO-X
The Zig Zag House by Ministry of Design
The Zig Zag House by Ministry of Design
The Patriarch House by Terre
” This Lien Villas project consists of an attempt to create a new housing prototype that . Multiple architects participated in the project, achieving harmony in the design whilst maintaining a distinction between the people who live in this housing. Residences are open, and lend themselves to an appropriate level of communication, controlled by the structures. Climate and customs have been taken into consideration, but this does not consist of a backward-looking nostalgic approach where tradition is stubbornly copied. The generous attention to detail of the designers is apparent throughout in their attempt to provide a bright, healthy and neutral environment for the people who live in these residences.”
All Photos© SGLivingPod by Amir Sultan
