Mathematician, physicist, inventor and designer, Aza Raskin once said, “Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.” And this was exactly what registered architect Lim Ai Tiong from Lim Ai Tiong (LATO) Architects/Design did with this new erection of a two-storey intermediate terraced home with an attic.
Typical of intermediate terraced houses, getting daylight into the long and narrow plot between two party walls was the biggest challenge. A popular and effective solution is to introduce a courtyard and skylight in the middle. While most courtyards tend to be of a square configuration, in
