This re-built intermediate terrace along Watten Road looked like a Semi-D. The owner is an architect in his 40s, and he designed this house. The old dwelling was a traditional inter-terrace that was torn down to make way for this swanky modern minimalist house. Yan and I took a peep at the house the other day when we drove past Watten Estate. We were rather impressed with the effect; it's basically an illusion of a Semi-D. To circumvent the constraints of an inter-terrace house, the owner-architect had cleverly positioned the void areas to create an opening on one side of the house that's linked to the neighbouring unit.
Using this trick, the inter-terrace now has a 3-sided opening, much like a Semi-D. The drawback of such a design is a reduction in usable floor area. Overall, this is an innovative design. Something that I have not seen being done on an intermediate terrace before.
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