A Dream Home In Singapore

A house that is inspired by Southern California and South of France styles which created a comfort and warmth environment. Nestled in lush foliage, this is also a house inspired by the family's broad travel experiences.

Husband and wife team Columbian architects Diego Molina and Maria Arango specializes in private residential projects. Designing houses for people has been their life-long passion. In this project, they fuses French and American architectural languages in a tropical settings. This is also one of the first projects in Singapore that uses bioclimatic plaster to keep its interior cool from the intense heat of the tropics. Large French windows all around the ground floor bring in nature and daylight into the interior of the house. 

The client also plays a major role in scouring around the world to source for the right fittings such as the bronze door handle and Italian marble counter top. The architects removed all the false ceilings throughout the house to create higher double volume spaces that reveal the beautiful timber rafters of the original structure.

Kakko House - Osaka

From the architect. This narrow house for a couple and their little child is located in a densely built-up area of Osaka, Japan. The size of the site is only width 3.4m wide by 13m deep.

To make full use of it, the house is framed in exposed structural steel, covered with thin fire - resistant adiabatic panels, and contains six floors with split levels.

Level1 (basement level) is a bedroom, Level 2(ground level) is a garage, Level 3 is for the little princess, Level 4 is a living space, Level 5 is a bathroom, and Level 6 is a roof terrace.

The expanded metal stair connects each floors and spreads the sun light inside. The residents are living like birds swinging from branch to branch in this house.

Source: Archdaily 

Tropical House With Beautiful Detailing