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Shou sugi ban, or <\/span>yakisugi<\/span><\/em>, is a traditional Japanese technique in which timber is charred to help preserve exterior siding. Thought to date to the Edo period (1603\u20131868), the process creates a carbonised layer over the timber that can improve its resistance to moisture, insects and weathering.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThey last for decades and decades,\u201d said architect Pan Yi Cheng, who proposed shou sugi ban for the renovation of a bungalow in Sentosa Cove. The roughly 20-year-old house featured a mishmash of facade materials that did not appeal to its new owner. \u201cThere was reinforced-concrete, mixed with lot of timber that was deteriorating. We hacked those away, keeping only the structural beams and columns,\u201d said Pan, founder of Type0 Architecture.<\/span><\/p>\n Both homeowner and architect saw potential in the bones of the building. What it needed was a more coherent architectural language. Supplied by Calvary Carpentry, panels of charred Accoya timber wrap around the existing structure in a grid, giving the house a new skin. \u201cThis entirely new architectural language is both practical and sustainable,\u201d said Pan.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Shou sugi ban, or yakisugi, is a traditional Japanese technique in which timber is charred to help preserve exterior siding. Thought to date to the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--_Ke0AHFu--\/c_crop,h_628,w_1118,x_1,y_84\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/08\/28\/h1_sentosa-cove-house-shou-sugi-ban.jpg?itok=ncMVyMi-","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6011,8226,1196,1620,3682,29094,2910],"class_list":["post-80402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-ban","tag-cove","tag-house","tag-sentosa","tag-shou","tag-sugi","tag-transformed","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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