Inspired by modernist architect Le Corbusier, Tan’s quirky contemporary home — which won the Singapore Institute of Architects 2020 design award in the Residential-Low Density Housing category — is a place that engages its inhabitants with colour and composition.
When architects build properties for their clients, form and function harmonises with the style and branding of each project. But when designing their own homes, all the creative elements they dreamed of infusing into commercial projects but could not, have made it into their personal spaces.
Just ask Rene Tan, director of RT+Q Architects, who turned his semi-detached home into a fun and engaging space filled with secret sliding or swing doors and rooms interconnected by towering book shelves and dividers.
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