Carolina Tamayo| Looking Out Week2

The Winged House is a private residential home located in Singapore that was designed by K2LD Architects in 2012. The site has a unique triangular shape and so the architects decided to use two trapezium shaped roofs to emphasize it.  These two roofs also help frame the view of an open, tropical courtyard on the back of the house.








What is most interesting about the roofs is the designers' choice of materiality. A lightweight timber was used to represent lightness and flight. Some darker accent pieces were also added to match the dark trunks of the surrounding trees and greenery.  Like it states in the archdaily article:

 "The Winged House, in its formal expressions and material language, results in an abode that sits snugly in its context in a quiet ‘winged’ embrace of the site and dwelling within."