Here's a house with gardens on all three levels designed by Singaporean studio Guz Architects on Santosa Island, Singapore.
The Sky Garden House includes a large stone-lined swimming pool that can be viewed from inside the building at basement level through a large glazed window.
A staircase with a glass balustrade and wooden steps snakes across the stairwell.
The curved roof at the top is also covered in grass and affords views of the bay beyond.
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Photographs are by Patrick Bingham Hall.
The information below is from the architects:
SKY GARDEN HOUSE
This house is located on a new housing estate on the island of Sentosa adjacent to Singapore. The plots are not large and neighboring buildings are built close to the sides of each house.
Thus our strategy was to build a solid wall to each side neighbor to provide privacy where possible, while creating a central light and stair well which would funnel the sea breeze through the center of the building.
The front and rear of the building meanwhile, terrace back allowing each storey to have visual or actual access to greenery.
The intention was to try to allow each roof garden provided a base for the storey above allowing the layered effect to make each storey feel like it was a single storey dwelling sitting in a garden.as much as we could do in the close confines of Sentosa island and with such a large building!!
LOCATION Sentosa Island, Singapore
AREA 852 sq. meters
GROSS FLOOR AREA 654 sq. meters
DESIGN ARCHITECT Guz Wilkinson
PROJECT ARCHITECTS Caroline Witzke and Szymon GoŸdzikowski
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simply awesome and the stairs looks cool
Hope there is a "weathersheep" on the roof!
i would like to know about the roof enginering…
i want those stairs. and that pool. and that roof. and that house.
money cannot buy you style
actually I thought that's exactly what money buys you, since style is bought into and not hereditary
think i just wet myself.
what kind of a commentary is that? please refrain from posting banal comments such as i wet myself on a design site like this. its lame and unconstructive and no one cares if you're wetting yourself over a disproportionately formed, over-detailed and obnoxious piece of architecture like this. money certainly cannot buy anyone style.
self appointed moderator?
apologies for tainting the proceeding intellectual discourse. Okay It's not minimal, the compostion . . .well there is no composition. BUT this house, (or rather collection of slick images) is exciting and exotic . there is something utopian about the beautiful juxtaposition of lush nature and the home. and sure good architecture isnt ment to be exciting, bla bla bla. IMO there's a thin line between fun and hideous in design, and this is fun.
what kind of commentary is yours? using as many syllables as you can to bash this piece?
i would love to know what about this project you think is disproportionate, and also what you see as over-detailed. please expound
who died and made you god?
Looks like a render rather than a complete project…
Beautiful design. need brain to accommodate such beauty at a total area of 852M2. I wonder if this is possible in a place of 45 to 50c in temprature
Excellent
I think its playful, relaxed and unselfconscious. I bet the residents love waking up and looking out the windows, or sitting in one living space and enjoying the visual melee as you look through one space into the other, different levels and uses (like the stair and pool), all to the backdrop of greenery.
Awesome project love the whole green design, i would like to know the engineering behind the roof? and the second floor garden..? your work is inspiring!
Great Project! Rarely eco-friendly & sustainable architecture manages to look sexy!
Inspiring, well done!
What a fascinating house!! ;-)
How would the owner maintain a grass roof? Hover-lawnmower I guess.