Designed by ipli architects and Yip Yuen Hong, this bungalow house located in Singapore, a former British colony. The original house, built in the 1960s, faced problems from its proximity and openness to a heavily used road. The strategy is a deceptively simple but thoughtful intervention to an existing bungalow, which enhances the character of the original architecture while creating new transformative spaces. With a simple six-meter wall enclosure, the architecture is able to eliminate the external nuisance and define a new courtyard space. The courtyard created by the new enclosure is then filled with generous foliage. Creepers are also introduced on the garden walls, which will be covered with green in time. In a single brushstroke, in this bungalow house the harmony of the old, the new, and nature is simultaneously achieved.
