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In Singapore, a Courtyard House by Atelier M+A

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A cheerful home from Atelier M+A in Singapore gets its occupants up to a roof terrace accessed via a sheltered central courtyard.

Once on the roof, these clients are far from the urban bustle of the city.

This is a house with an easygoing serenity and repose rarely found in the island of bustling Singapore.

From the private internal courtyard, the house is partly transparent, allowing sight lines through to the boundary of a nature reserve that bounds the Upper Seletar reservoir.

A single tree is placed in the center of the courtyard.

On the crowded island, every inch of land is expensive, so the client’s desire to build just a single-story house is unusual.

The rooms all open into the courtyard, and also out to the outdoors.

The result is a sunny and happy home with an abundance of sunlight.

Even the bedroom catches a glimpse of the internal courtyard.

A skylight above the shower – making it seem outdoors – brings daylight down into the bathroom.

The proportions are generous but never excessive.

‘Just enough’ appears to be the design brief.

A wide welcoming portico is set above the entry door.

In keeping with the understated style seen throughout; here two simple slabs of stone serve as entry stairs.