TERRACE homes, with neighbours sharing common walls on either side, can be dark places as windows can be put only at the front and back.
Not so at the home of architect Rene Tan, who thought outside the box when he designed it. Light streams into his twostorey-plus-attic terrace house, thanks to an ingenious slanted design.
Rather than being a rectangular box, the house is bent at an angle, hence enabling light to enter from the side. There are fewer common walls to share as well.
To make it look brighter, the entire interior is painted in variations of white.
Mr Tan, a partner at RT+Q Architects which he founded with architect T.K. Quek, admits that he treated designing his home like an experiment, testing out unusual designs that he would normally not do for clients' homes.
'This was something more unusual', says the Penang-born permanent resident here. 'The shape was an instinctive response to the site.'
Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.
