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29/04/2026

09/03/2026

Stone holds the earth. Timber reaches for the horizon.

We are proud to introduce the Plinth House — Singapore’s first Mass Engineered Timber residence, completed on a seafront site in Sentosa Cove.

The house is conceived as two distinct layers: a stone plinth below, grounded and protective; a timber pavilion above, open to the sea and sky. The conventional hierarchy of the seafront home is deliberately inverted — privacy is found at ground level, and openness is displaced upward, where height naturally affords distance from the public edge. Two floors of CLT and glulam structure were prefabricated and assembled on site in seven weeks.

The full story, coming soon.

03/12/2025

House of Passing Light

A new Accoya timber trellis wraps the façade, tying the various elements together. It filters daylight, moderates solar exposure, and forms awnings over the entrance, balcony, and terraces. At the front, a new balcony is lowered beneath the crown of an existing roadside tree, borrowing its shade and making it the primary outlook from the master bedroom.

Design Team members:
1) Pan Yi Cheng
2) Daniel Chia
3) Guo Xiu Jin
4) Liao Chien-I

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