The Three-Roof House seeks to reinterpret the archetypal pitched roof semi-detached/corner terrace typology. The design seeks to leverage on the spatial characteristics shaped by the slope of pitched roofs and deployed it as the organizing principle for the massing. In that sense, the roofs came first. 

Three-Roof House is a corner terrace located on the edge of Windsor Nature Park, designed for a family of four and their domestic helper. Client came to us with a request for a house with a pitched roof that would better weather the tropic.

We proposed a massing organised by 3 distinct pitched roofs; two mono-pitched roofs of varying slope on the front and side, a corner hip roof at the back. The pitched roofs characterise the otherwise compact layout with delightful variations, spatial hierarchy and framed views. 

The low-hanging roof in the front reveals little to the street and slopes to a dramatic height, accommodating the children’s bedroom loft on the upper floor. The relatively gentle slope over the double-volume living space in middle opens up to the Windsor Nature Park. The hip roof at the back accommodates the more private part of the house. 

While the three pitched roofs calibrate the vantage and privacy of the interior from its surrounding, a sliver of skylight over the central stairwell animates the heart of the house with the passage of time. 

We hoped for a house that is familiar yet striking, subtle yet intriguing and rooted to its context.