Designed as a Multi-Generational Home with a Courtyard Pool, the design creates a single home for families to have their own quarters, while having a central area for all to gather.
This house is designed for parents, 2 children and grandchildren with a total of 3 family units.
The design is inspired by the beauty of butterfly wings and petals of a flower. Each wing/petal articulates a zone for the families. The house consists of 13 bedrooms, 3 living areas, 3 dining areas, distributed across the 1st and 2nd storey to allow for multiple families to co-exist separately. Issues such as privacy and connectivity had to be addressed, where each "family zone" has its own entry route, creating its own apartment unit within the house. These "family zones" wrap around a central courtyard which serves also to bring views, light and air to the private living areas.
This central courtyard, with a swimming pool, is an internalised well-shielded private space for the family to interact, away from the eyes of the neighbours and the public, providing the family with privacy and cooling the internal shared spaces.
To allow for interaction between families, common facilities (such as swimming pool, formal living and dining area with high ceiling, gardens and koi ponds, casual outdoor dining verandah, gym, home theatre, kids playrooms, gym, roof BBQ dining and even meeting room, etc), are designed across the basement, ground floor and attic.
All communal spaces wrap around the courtyard, bringing visual flow between spaces. Functionally, these forms help carve spaces for balconies and voids for skylights into the basement.
Above the attic, a large sweeping roof covers entire house bringing all the spaces conceptually under one roof. These curvaceous sculpted forms break the scale of the large house, creating soft elegant lines that outline an iconic form for this large bungalow.