Perforated House is a contemporary single-family house located in Singapore, designed by AR43 Architects.

Description
The Perforated House is nestled in the Northern side of Singapore and epitomises a private refuge in the midst of a bustling city.
As most typical small landed houses in Singapore are street-fronting and closely packed together with neighbouring houses, the brief was to design a house that would maintain a certain level of privacy for the owner, yet still be open to greenery, ventilation and natural light. The new house was detached from its neighbouring semi-detached house ? made possible given its generous plot size ? to allow more opportunities for ventilation and lighting.
The house was conceptualised as an elevated box made of solid off-form concrete, with abundant pockets of green spaces woven into the interior spaces. The language of perforations was also used consistently throughout the house as an architectural tool to control the level of privacy, light and ventilation. Programmatically, the more private spaces were elevated off the ground level and the green spaces act as a buffer between the inside and outside, shielding the interior spaces from street noises and passersby. The interior spaces extend towards the surrounding greenery, blurring the boundaries between the inside and out, bringing in good natural lighting as well as ventilation. In spaces where more privacy is required, vertically angled sunshades were purposefull...