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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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23/11/2025

House of Passing Light

The design treats light as a primary building material. The triple-volume void anchors the home as an apparatus for capturing diurnal shifts and translating them into a spatial narrative. As the sun moves, the void brightens, compresses, softens, and fades with passing of light through the day.

Its east-facing façade is replaced with 6-metre-high frameless glass panes, while the southern side opens toward an elevated garden and roof terrace.

A new staircase is reorganised as a backdrop to the atrium, reinforcing the clarity of the section. Clad in matte stainless steel, it reflects soft gradients of daylight as one moves through the space. Ascending or descending the stair reveals subtle environmental shifts, making time and light directly perceptible through circulation.

17/11/2025

House of Passing Light

This project is an Addition and Alteration (A&A) of an existing house along Wilkinson Road, Singapore. Much of the original structure was retained, including the triple-volume void. The design works with these inherited elements, clarifying their purpose and re-establishing spatial order without erasing the building’s existing framework.

12/11/2025

Introduced elements within each rooms, such as the carpentry, were expressed in a wider selection of timber types - from natural oak in the kids bedrooms to dyed veneers in the master bedroom, creating visual interest without resorting to replication, yet still maintaining a consistent timber palette
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Design Team members:
1) Pan Yi Cheng
2) Daniel Chia
3) Ling Shi Yin
4) Liao Chien-I
5) Teo Xiao Wei

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29/10/2025

We’re excited to share that our project “Nowhere Baths” has been shortlisted for the Dezeen Awards 2025 (Interiors category)!

Nowhere Baths is a gender-inclusive bathhouse located in Singapore’s Dempsey Hill, a former military compound. Housed in a refurbished colonial-era barrack, the project is conceived as a journey through shifting thermal atmospheres and sensory immersion.

Thank you for the recognition!
and our clients for the opportunity

Find out more: https://www.dezeen.com/awards/2025/shortlists/nowhere-baths/
or click the link in our bio to read more about it.

23/10/2025

We have chosen to work with largely natural materials to complement the existing timber palette of the shop house – namely timber and stone varieties of various finishes for the hard furnishing: and leather and natural fabric for soft furnishing.

In keeping with the original and historic material palette, architectural elements that form the frames and shells of the space (floors, beams, joists, staircases, interior facades) were expressed in teak and chengal to complement historic elements that exist originally in the space.
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Design Team members:
1) Pan Yi Cheng
2) Daniel Chia
3) Ling Shi Yin
4) Liao Chien-I
5) Teo Xiao Wei
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05/09/2025

The living room is reimagined as the “forecourt” of the property, forming a threshold at the first airwell between the living and dining space. Framed by warm teak and lush landscape,this transition is marked by material selection – beige Ceppo, a stone with large granular character commonly used in external landscape for the living room floor, and Pietra Da Torre, a stone with similar characteristic, that extends inward to form the dry kitchen islands,thereby complementing existing Chengal floor joists, and granite corbels. This provides a slight contrast between the elevated Perlado Grigio of the dining room floor, signifying a transition to a semi-private domain.
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Design Team members:
1) Pan Yi Cheng
2) Daniel Chia
3) Ling Shi Yin
4) Liao Chien-I
5) Teo Xiao Wei

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04/09/2025

The first storey benefits from an open plan layout which allows one to be able to fully see through and embrace the length of the site (unique feature in shophouses). In doing so it exaggerates the depth of the narrow shophouse. In combination, the sense of confinement and disorientation that one experiences walking into the existing shophouse is changed to one that celebrates openness and exploration.
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Design Team members:
1) Pan Yi Cheng
2) Daniel Chia
3) Ling Shi Yin
4) Liao Chien-I
5) Teo Xiao Wei

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28/08/2025

The smooth transition from the bustling modern streetscape along Orchard Road into a quiet sanctuary steeped in tradition and peppered with contemporary elements is exemplified in a few ways. We attempt to draw in the appearance of the outdoors by designing the facades, the airwells with the same panelled casement windows, “mirroring” the external fenestration. This vertical void, calibrated to reflect the rhythm of original timber casement fenestration, extends the Peranakan decorative motif into the interior, reinforcing the dialogue between old and new.
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Design Team members:
1) Pan Yi Cheng
2) Daniel Chia
3) Ling Shi Yin
4) Liao Chien-I
5) Teo Xiao Wei
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