The site faces a major thoroughfare, is flat and non-descript. Maximized to its permissible building volume, this can be a potentially over-sized house for a family of 4 (parents and teenage daughters) and their 2 helpers. The strategy of fragmentation was thus adopted to fragmentize the volume into comprehensible parts.

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Architects: Studio Wills + Architects

Location: 70 Frankel Ave, Freeport, NY 11520, United States

Architect In Charge: Ng William

Design Team: Ng William, Wu Shan Yat

Area: 489.96 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Beton Brut

C&S Engineer: Civil and Geotechnical Associates
Quantity Surveyor : BKG Consultants Pte Ltd

Builder: TIM Contracts Pte Ltd

Carpenter: Sin Hiap Chuan Wood Works

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The site faces a major thoroughfare, is flat and non-descript. Maximized to its permissible building volume, this can be a potentially over-sized house for a family of 4 (parents and teenage daughters) and their 2 helpers. The strategy of fragmentation was thus adopted to fragmentize the volume into comprehensible parts.

Floor Plan

In order to accommodate a sizeable lap pool of 3 meter width along the side garden, the building had to be set-back by an additional 1 meter beyond the 2m bui...