A waterfront home at Sentosa Cove planned as a loose group of pavilions rather than one solid block. Splitting the house lets the marina breeze move through the courts between, drops the apparent bulk on a sensitive plot, and gives every room either water on one side or a private green court on the other.
Living on the water in Singapore is as much about shade and air as it is about the view, so deep eaves, operable timber screens and a long lap pool do the environmental work while the architecture stays calm. A timber-lined roof floats over the social pavilion on slim steel, and the whole ground plane is detailed to fold open to the deck so the line between inside and the marina all but disappears.
The materials are chosen to live by salt water and age gracefully — weathering timber, honed stone, marine-grade steel — and the planting was designed with our landscape team from day one rather than added at the end. The house is built to be lived in barefoot, with the doors open, the way a home by the water should be.
