The global city of Singapore features architecture with influences and styles from around the world. Singapore SCDA Architects' Principal, Soo Chan, says "Singapore does not have a weight of history as it is a relatively young nation. Our post-colonial architects are very open and free, and experimental. I would add that our architecture is universal. My architecture is universal. We utilize globally perfected building technologies and aesthetics. What makes us distinctive is how we bring landscape into buildings, particularly up to high-rises. I conceive my projects in a holistic manner. When I design a project, I think of the interiors flowing seamlessly onto the landscape. So interiors, landscape, and architecture are inseparable. I started designing tables, chairs, sofas, and other products for homes and offices early on, in collaboration with design companies. I like them as stand-alone objects but also I like to integrate them into spaces of my own design as much as possible.

Describing some of his earliest design inspirations, Chan says "I was deeply influenced by the house I grew up in, the Khoo Kongsi compound in Penang, an island off the west coast of Malaysia. Khoo Kongsi was planned around a central communal courtyard where many generations of my extended family lived, and it is a UNESCO World Heritage site today. I can still picture the spatial and light qualities of the long and narrow house I grew up in, punctuated with open air wells. I remember the smell of fresh rain coming deep into the house on to the sunken courts, and the pockets of light and darkness in the house. You can see his influences in these houses designed by SCDA Architects, Singapore.

Harbourview House

This house comprises three wings on a rectangular site organised around a courtyard with views of the ocean. The wings consist of the main living areas to the east, the master suite and entry patio to the south and the single-storey entertainment area to the west.

Entry to the house is choreographed through a series of spaces. A stone feature wall fronts the entry court where the visitor is greeted by a dramatic pitched roof of two wings ‘floating’ above the wall. Formed by aluminium sections, the roof appears to wrap around the sides of the second storey, providing a strong feature element that leads the visitor through the feature wall. Crossing a bridge, the entry pavilion is surrounded by water and opens out to a swimming pool and lawn area. Large glazed areas on the ground floor of the east and west wings take further advantage of the ocean views beyond the pool.

Harbour View House - Disigned by SCDA Architects Singapore

Ocean Drive House 

This residence at Ocean Drive, Sentosa Cove has an L-shaped plan spanning a landscaped garden, which incorporates a reflective pool and an outdoor pavilion that opens to the ocean.

The built form emphasises the timber upper floor that floats over the solid enclosure of the lower floor, providing a backdrop for the internal spaces open to the ocean. The elevation has a dual arrangement with a rough broken stone wall to the first storey, which separates the living areas from the roadsides by a horizontal glass slit. A lighter second storey cantilevers out, wrapped by a veil of vertical timber battens.

Ocean Drive House - Disigned by SCDA Architects Singapore

Lakeshore View House

Located at the highest hillside parcel overlooking the nearby Golf Course and the port shoreline, Lakeshore View House addresses the potential of a sloping site using a composition of volumes that addresses the owner’s brief whilst creating a flow of formal and informal interconnected spaces.

Lakeshore House - Disigned by SCDA Architects Singapore

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