Architecture & Interiors — Singapore
FORMA
Buildings that hold their ground.
Architecture & Interiors — Singapore
Buildings that hold their ground.
A note on method
Founded 2012 · 48 built works across Southeast Asia
“Every project begins the same way: we remove until it argues back.”
— Wei Lin, founding principal

The studio
We are a team of eleven in a shophouse on Neil Road. We take on six projects a year — never more — and stay from first sketch to final door handle.
Case 01 · Cultural Centre · 2024

The brief asked for a landmark. We gave the street a single move instead: one twelve-metre circle cut through the concrete face, glazed flush, letting the reading hall look back at the neighbourhood that funded it.
Everything else defers. The facade is shuttered in one continuous pour; signage is engraved, not applied. On opening day the circle did the marketing by itself.


Case 02 · Housing · 2023

Eighty-seven homes, each with a terrace deep enough to eat dinner on. The section steps back one bay per floor, so every terrace is the roof of the one below — no overlooking, no wasted slab.
The step is the whole architecture. There is no cladding system, no feature wall. The residents' plants supply the ornament, which was the plan.


Case 03 · Private Atelier · 2025

A painter asked for a studio that would tell her the time without a clock. Three tall courts track the sun across the day; the concrete takes the light like paper takes a wash.
There is no artificial lighting in the working rooms at all. When the light goes, the day is over — her rule, our section.


Case 04 · Gallery Extension · 2022

The extension refuses to touch the heritage wing. A four-metre gap runs the full length of the site — a canyon of brick, open to the rain, crossed once by a single steel balcony.
Visitors argue about which side is the old building. The brick is the same clay, fired eighty years apart. That argument is the project working.


Case 05 · Hotel Courtyard · 2024

The courtyard was a service yard; the hotel wanted a spa. We flooded it instead. One sheet of water, one stone deck, no loungers in rows — the pool is the room.
Rooms above got quieter the day it opened. Water is cheaper acoustic treatment than anything in a catalogue.


Case 06 · Memorial · 2021

A memorial should not explain itself. One wall, one void, one bench. The circle frames whatever the sky is doing, which is different every time you grieve.
It is the smallest project we have built and the one we are asked about most.
