Camo House
Camo House is located on a leafy residential street on the east coast of Singapore. Situated within a dense neighborhood, the building design represents the client?s love of the surroundings and the desire for a house that blends in and not stand out. The house is designed to ensure visual privacy of the residents with green design strategies in place to provide comfort and transform the living quality of the residents.
With climatic conditions of strong sunlight penetrating deep into the interiors and sea breeze that goes through the neighborhood are assets of the tropics and the criteria for parametric considerations when designing the façade. It comprised of a perforated aluminium screen where the details for different times of the day, weather conditions were developed and determined through computation. Photography by © Aaron Pocock
Thus, an urban camouflage tactic was adopted, in which the foliage inspired double skin façade integrates with its surroundings. This foliage is an imagery generated based on the pattern derived from a photographic montage of the surrounding trees and street-scape. Upon this layer, it is mapped with the visual and climatic patterns derived from desired zones of maximum and minimum visual transmission and airflow.
The perforations of the double skin façade help to regulate the temperature of the step out decks and reduces the temperature of interiors. It is also designed to have the option of fully opened sliding doors for cro...