I just love how the plants hang over the air well that even gives such a mundane space an interesting look. Heading inside, you’ll find that it’s really bright and spacious due to the multiple air wells around.Īs the landscaped deck is just above, you’ll also find these really aesthetic air wells that bring in light and natural ventilation: A large area to provide landscaping that beautifies the development, providing inner-facing stacks with a good view.A large area to house the facilities where children can run around freely without worry about either getting lost or running onto the service/main road.A Precinct Pavilion that’s “underground” in some sense, thus resulting in greater privacy for event holders and reducing the impact of noise travelling to the units around.Complete shelter and ample space for drop-off points that can be close to the residential blocks.Such a design is not new, but it’s certainly an ingenious one since it manages to achieve four things: Since it occupies such a large area, the car park also houses the Precinct Pavilion, the drop-off points as well as the facilities and landscaped deck on the third floor. Given the large amount of space dedicated to it coupled with the fact that there are only 490 units here, the car park only goes up to two storeys – basement one and level one.Īs such, Matilda Sundeck has managed to dodge what most other HDBs are plagued with – an eyesore of a car park that negatively affects lower floor units (seriously who likes facing a car park lot – no one!). To maximise the usage of the land, the car park is spread over a large area in the centre of the development – but it’s cleverly “hidden in plain sight”, so to speak. And it’s not just on the balcony that you’ll find them, but throughout the development (which you’ll soon see).įirst up, let’s talk about the car park which makes up a large portion of the land area. These balconies are special as they have square block designs that mirror those at Matilda House. If you look at the development closely, you’ll notice that the balcony has quite a peculiar design: Overall, two exits and entrances is suitable for an HDB with just 490 units. The south entrance is shared with another HDB on the east side – Matilda Portico. In total, this development has two entrances, this (north) and another located on the south side. That, as well as the huge open space north of Matilda Sundeck indicates the construction of the area isn’t completed yet.Īfter an 8-minute walk from the bus stop along Punggol Way, I finally reached the north entrance of Matilda Sundeck. You know an HDB is brand new when it takes some time to reach the destination from an already far-out MRT station like Punggol. Interested in a video review instead? Check out our tour of the development + 4-room flat here! Now that you know its fascinating back story, let’s see what Matilda Sundeck has to offer in our usual HDB tour! This contrasts with flats in Kallang where 4.3 applicants were vying for a flat, at that time of writing.Īpplicants also expressed the inconvenience of the development being quite a walk to the MRT/LRT as some reasons why they chose other Punggol projects/the mature estates over Matilda Sundeck. TODAY reported that across all the Punggol projects, 4-room flats were undersubscribed with 0.7 applicants vying for each flat. Given these circumstances, it’s no surprise then that all of the mature estates were oversubscribed, while Punggol was undersubscribed. Applicants could choose mature estates like Bedok, Bidadari (Toa Payoh) or Kallang in that exercise. ![]() This meant that there were more mature developments on offer than non-mature ones. What’s also interesting was that Matilda Sundeck was launched alongside 8 other BTO projects, 6 of which were in mature estates. As you’ll see in the tour, certain aspects of the home were featured as part of the architecture of the development, including the shelter rooftops that are shaped like the roof from Matilda House, as well as the square blocks that were found in the Bungalow. Today, Matilda House is still around as part of a condominium clubhouse at A Treasure Trove:īut it’s not just the name that pays homage to it. The home was then gifted to his wife Josephine Matilda Cashin (hence the “Matilda” in Matilda House). The home was once owned by one of the wealthiest Eurasian family in Singapore who owned opium farms (then legal) in Singapore. This seemingly innocuous HDB happens to pay homage to a century-old bungalow in Punggol that had a reputation for being “haunted”.
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