Studio Antimatter crafts a sunlit, minimalist apartment in Singapore centred by an elegant tree
Singapore-born, Portugal-based designer Gabriel Tan has developed a sensitive touch to space and materials that he applies to all scales ranging from product design to interiors. The founder of Origin Made—a brand with home objects crafted by artisans—also heads Studio Antimatter, which has produced a series of artful homes.
This ground-level apartment for a family with three young daughters is the latest iteration of his spatial explorations. The corner unit is housed in a condominium designed by K2LD Architects. It has a brilliant layout, with the spaces laid out along the length of the generous patio that creates a daily symbiotic relationship between the indoors and outdoors, and between routines of home life and nature—of shifting shadows, the light of dawn and dusk, the waving of foliage and gurgling of an outdoor water feature.
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“The ground floor location and full-height windows stretching the entire length of the apartment that opens to the patio gave us the inspiration to bring the outdoors in. We wanted the apartment to be one with nature,” says Tan, who anchored the entry with a round planter, graced by a tree that accentuates the lofty space.
Commanding presence, its tall height allows the family to enjoy views of the leafy crowns from the second floor of the duplex apartment. “The tree is also a metaphor for the family; the tree grows with the family, flowering and flourishing with them through the years,” Tan shares.
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