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Tropical Ease and Sophistication in a Singapore Garden Villa

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Here is one of two identical houses built for a client’s teenage sons and their future families in Singapore.

The new house is on a very narrow lot next to the existing home from Aamer Architects.

A glamorous rooftop pool tops the narrow house that very nearly fills the lot.

A zigzag floor plan allows windows on three sides – making the house seem much more open than the narrow plot really is.

Ceiling height french doors completely open the wall to the lush garden outside.

The many very tall thin french doors create the feeling of a tropical conservatory.

The zigzag floor plan solves the challenge of the very narrow plot, along with the stacked vertical garden.

It means every room in the narrow garden villa gets much more than its natural share of light and views.

Every room is both physically and psychologically cooled by the luscious tropical greenery outside.

This cooling greenery starts right outside at the ground floor next to a watery moat, and continues up the wall close to the open house.

A playful touch in the entry is a window up to the rooftop pool.

This is achieved by a glass bottom to part of the pool, quite an engineering feat!

In each of thsee identical houses, the boys’ bedrooms upstairs are accessed from outdoors via a spiral stair that continues up to the pool on the roof.

This exterior spiral staircase is a lovely artistic feature that seems to echo the natural world surrounding it.

It is perfectly centered so as to provide a wonderful view from the kitchen as well.

Creepers twining up vertical timber trellises extend above the rooftop swimming pool, cooling the house from above.

This rooftop pool is overlooked from a half height penthouse room with an expansive sky view over the neighborhood.

Altogether it’s a gorgeously liveable space that brilliantly overcomes the challenge of Singapore’s typically cramped lots.