Photographic material, house for Dr Chia Chin Tiong (1963), Rochalie Drive, Singapore 新加坡羅渣里通道謝振忠醫生住宅（1963年）影像資料

The Malayan Architects Co-partnership designed this house for a Singaporean doctor in the early 1960s. Located just west of Singapore’s Orchard Road shopping district, the house consists of vertical and horizontal planes arranged on a grid. Viewed from the front, the upper level appears as a long rectangle of seven partially open square bays, cantilevering over the facade and carving out space for two-car parking near the house’s shaded entry. On one side, the cubes are clear and host a terrarium-like garden. At the centre, a glass-clad building stretches behind the frame and across the home’s two floors.

By pulling the upper-level structure outside the house’s walls, the project creates multiple climatic conditions that mediate between exterior and interior. In this sense, it is characteristic of the early residential work of the Malayan Architects Co-partnership, which made experimental use of materials—particularly aluminium—and tailored a European-American modernism to the environment and the increasingly affluent lifestyles of a changing Singapore.

The series consists of photographs that show the exterior of the house from a variety of angles, as well as parts of the interior living and dining areas.