The patterns come from the plywood formwork used to cast the concrete walls. Tay worked with design-to-fabrication consultancy Superstructure to design the patterns. “Modular variations were derived from computational design based on a diagrid. A CNC machine milled the patterns onto the plywood formworks for the concrete casting,” Tay elaborated.
Some of the fenestrations facing the outside are layered with an aluminium screen; the patterns feature a variation of the same diagrid pattern but are perforated for light and privacy control. Laminated windows keep the noise out.
From the entrance facing Adam Road Food Centre, a driveway leads to the basement housing a garage for seven cars, a guestroom and entertainment areas. Ample space in the basement is given to a garden that opens to the sky with trees rising upward to meet a landscaped deck on the first storey.
The main entrance on the first storey is subtle – a small opening at the corner of the skewed plan, sheltered by a black steel canopy. Past a lush planter, the main door leads to the living room that opens to a grassed terrace overlooking the basement garden.
