Design Team
Chung Meng Ker
Design Data
Client: Bee Kim Property
Development Pte Ltd
Structural Engineer: Executive Design Inc.
Site Area: 6,362.75
sq m
Site Coverage: 31.41 %
Plot Ratio: 1 : 1.099
Gross Floor Area: 6,996.58 sq m
Building type: 3 storey walk-up flats, 41 units
Corona Ville is a development in Singapore for the middle-income housing market using a similar planning morphology to that developed for Cheras. The back-to-back housing layout allows for a much higher density than is normally achieved with three storey housing. Car parking is beneath the dwellings.
The main entrances to each of the 41 houses are given distinct identities
and the arcaded facade recalls the elegant early modernist houses built
in Singapore in the 1930's. The plan form is manipulated so that bedrooms
looking into the light well between the back-to-back houses never directly
face each other. A 2.5 metre corridor allows the dwellings to be serviced
from the rear with alternative entrances via the kitchen. This idea was
to be reworked, a decade later, with improvements in another housing project
at 90 Holland Road.
The Corona Ville project is a careful reinterpretation of vernacular responses.
Quiet and unpretentious, it indicates that the language of line, edge,
mesh and shade, when pursued without stylistic preconceptions, is as likely
to produce a contemporary vernacular solution as it is to result in a
modern idiom. The scale of the project is distinctly humane, in marked
contrast to numerous condominiums which 'shout' for attention with ungrammatical
expressions of neo-classical architectural language.
