While conceptualizing a vacation home on a spacious beachfront property surrounded by coconut trees, we were intrigued by the owners’ reference to shophouses. The urban architectural type’s efficiency and practicality greatly appeal to them. Although the property allows for splaying the programs freely across the land, sprawling resort-style, our client prefers a double-decker of four bedrooms, simply stacked, shophouse-style.

We abided and happily proposed to incorporate two additional types—a micro detached house and a sala –mingling them on one plinth and capping them all with one giant roof form (which our client found fittingly wave-like). An eccentric architectural hybrid of their own.