Note · Landscape
On three recent homes a mature tree set the plan before the rooms did. A short note on designing around what is already growing on a Singapore plot — and why the canopy is the cheapest cooling you will ever get.
Note · Interiors
Open-plan and bright is the default brief. But some of our most loved interiors are low, tactile and deliberately dark. What it takes to make a dark room feel generous rather than gloomy.
Note · Architecture
A building that works with the climate is cheaper to run and kinder to live in. How deep reveals, screens and orientation do the environmental work before the air-conditioning is ever asked to.
Note · Landscape
Before levels, before planting, we map where the rain goes. On the Gillman courtyard, following the water turned a tired yard into a shaded public room that drains itself. A short field note.
In their words
“They kept our rain tree and designed the whole house around it. Reuben sketched the key idea on the first visit and the finished home is exactly that — calm, cool and ours.”
“A genuinely difficult urban plot, handled with patience and skill. Every home in the stack gets real light and air, and the authority submissions were managed without drama.”
“We wanted a dark, grounded interior and most firms tried to talk us out of it. Mei Lin understood it immediately and detailed it beautifully — every joint is considered.”
“They designed a workplace our team genuinely enjoys coming into, on a sensible budget and programme. The planted social floors have changed how the firm works day to day.”
