Singapore

BOOK HOUSE

Book house at Ford Avenue is a private library annexe (within a Good Class Bungalow Precinct). It houses rare book collections of a highly successful digital innovation entrepreneur, showcasing his thousands of rare novels and publications in a double volume space. The house is designed sensitively to respond to its environment, maximising daylight whilst ensuring protection from UV degradation. These industrial interiors utilise exposed off-form concrete wall and graphite grey steel structure, lined with warm wood book shelving. The juxtaposition of muted and warm material look perfectly thrown together. Equipped with a modern home workshop at level one that looks out into an agricultural landscape garden, Book house is the ultimate hobby-space / man-cave.