Built in 2010 by AAmer Architects, this semi-detached house is a small house. The main design strategy was to pull the front part of the house away from the party wall and express it as a chamfered cylindrical volume covered with vertical timber louvers, which Aamer nicknamed “the lipstick”. Visually, this gave the house an identity distinct from its neighbour. The space between “the lipstick” and the party wall shared with the neighbour became a circulation zone, housing the car porch and the staircase. To emphasize the separation between “the lipstick” and the party wall, this zone was designed to be transparent and light. A steel, glass and timber structure was thus used which created intriguing shadow and light patterns.
