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The Screen House is located on a triangulated plot of land somewhere in the western part of Singapore.  Prior to the rebuilding, the car parking for the house was located on a steep incline leading up to the 1st story of the house which is approximately 2.5m higher than the adjacent road level.  In order to take advantage of the topography of the site, the decision was made to ?carve? out a basement story. With this strategy, the car parking area is hidden away.  An entire new basement story could then be tucked neatly into the site. The new house from road level looks like a 2.5 story house when in fact it is a 3.5 story volume.
Photography: Roland Tan Yeow Teck
Basements usually conjure up imageries of being dark and dimly lit. In this case, an internal garden courtyard is inserted into the center of the house. A central skylight fitted with Vari-shield self-cleaning glass provides day-lighting to flood the basement area. The Vari-shield glass is self-regulating much like transition lenses to regulate the amount of daylight into the internal area. Photography: Roland Tan Yeow Teck
27 numbers of spherical pendants suspended at varying heights serve as an interesting counterpoint to the trees.

Vertical trellised screen façade set at varying spacing follows the angulated façade to shield from the west facing sun along the front façade.

During the day, the house takes on a very ?private? front shielded by th...