Canvas House Blair Road: Singapore Heritage Shophouse, South East Asian Building Interior Images
Canvas House Blair Road, Singapore
13 Mar 2020
Canvas House Blair Road: Singapore Heritage Shophouse
Design: Ministry of Design Architects (MOD)
Location: Blair Road, Singapore, South East Asia
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Canvas House on Blair Road – Singapore Heritage Shophouse Renewal
MOD has newly completed an all-white Canvas House for co-living, set in a heritage shophouse in Singapore along Blair Road.
Singapore shophouse Alabaster Suite:

Historic dwellings like conservation shophouses are repositories of memories, with previous lives and a past of their own. Colin and his team at Ministry of Design conceptualised the ?Canvas House”, exploring our relationship with the past, present and future through the concept of layers, time and up-cycling.
a. Blurring the boundaries between space and object, MOD conceptually blanketed Canvas House with a layer of white that provides a canvas for the future, and focuses historical preservation in concentrated areas.

b. Colin elaborates, ?When it comes to adaptive reuse projects, the question is always the same, how do we tread the line between the past and the present" If one opts for the project to be just about preservation, it’s as good as time standing still? which could be paralysing and inhibiting”.
Singapore shophouse Alpine Suite:

“But at the same time, neither do we want to disregard histo...