VILLA BAHARU
19

A series of vacant bungalow land plots with a desire to be sold for holiday villas, 3 plots of the prime lots are carefully selected for individual designed villas as show units to showcase the potential of a well-designed house is essential to well-beings of retirees or home-owners who travel back for short-term holidays.

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In contrast to Villa Baharu 20, this house adopts a more contemporary approach for the overall design concept - terracotta fairface bricks laid in Flemish bond manner for the overall facade, strengthen with buttesses for any wall higher than 3m.  

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The roof form comprises of 2 major segments, with horizontal clerestory windows to capture morning rays into the double volume living hall.

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Cladded in dark colorbond metal roofing, bended to form facade cladding, contrasting with the terracotta facade to achieve a unique combination.  Several modern barn roof forms are placed as fenestration and lanai spaces, to further accentuate the overall house form.

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Entering the brick arched foyer and main door with circle top, passing through circular vertically louvered aperture that filters southwestern sun, one will reach a double volume living hall backed by a full height library, bathe in light, and accessible from a black steel dog-legged staircase.

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Back to back to the living hall, is a dining hall accompanied with dry kitchen, spatially extendable to the outdoors from a sundeck. 

 

Activities at the living hall can be observed from the library and full height grilled corridor cum art gallery, where rooms are also accessible from corridor.

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Spatial & program connectivity is the key to the design of Villa Baharu 19, where occupants can visually connect & correspond to each other.