Designing with a budget constrain sometimes instead giving the architect a more significant role to navigate a project.

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Designing with a budget constrain sometimes instead giving the architect a more significant role to navigate a project.

Serves as a co-housing, the original brief was to build a boarding house maximising built area vs inner courts consisting of about sixteen rooms divided into 8 units, split into two wings to accommodate land splitting anytime in the future. Considering minimum car parking provided, the same massing originally equipped with upper corridor to reach the second level changed into only one corridor at the ground floor which then restructure the whole unit division into four only. Thus minimising car parking needed from eight to four and changing the designated boarding house now into a rather small co-housing complex.

Playing with small budget makes it easier to shape the massing into somewhat unusual compare to the neighbour especially the one besides it which is a gigantic house with rich material palette thus express its identity as a unique building in the block that also caters different function as a bed and breakfast facility.