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PJKita Community Centre / DTLM Design Group

Valeria Silva — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000

PJKita Community Centre is a new go-to place for the local community, especially the so-called Generation Z. Located in Kelana Jaya Park, the project occupies 4.3 acres and was carried out under PJKita, an initiative by the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ). The project aims to engage with youth and bring the community together to achieve a sustainable, creative, and community-driven city. The community center is two stories with a total built-up area of 310 square meters.

Permeability Housed / Tangu Architecture

Hana Abdel — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 23:00:00 +0000

In an established suburb of Greater Kuala Lumpur, within a closed-knitted community, lies this east-fronting house that had been renovated incongruently over the years. It has now been transformed into a progressive testbed for design innovation, research & development, and trial of ideas and principles continuously developed by the practice.

3 Courtyard House / O2 Design Atelier

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Most of typical terrace housing in Malaysia always having a deep interior space and narrow due to developer want to maximize the number of units within the plot of land. The challenge is to transform the existing dark and tight interior spaces with many partition walls and low ceilings. Privacy, security and cost are the prime concerns for the house owner.

Jose House / Fabian Tan Architect

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:00:00 +0000

The house is a typical single storey terrace house on a plot of 23' x 75' land. The original house layout is typically closed and the brief was to create an open plan on one side and private rooms on the other side of the dividing center wall. With a restricted budget, the layout utilizes the existing structure as much as possible with the addition of a half loft floor which originally was the existing floor slab for an old water tank. The roof timber supports was also untouched and the scale of the building was maintained to match with the existing neighboring houses.

Knikno House / Fabian Tan Architect

Rayen Sagredo — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This semi-detached house was rebuilt for a young family on a 60’ x 90’ piece of land. Laid out over two different levels, the lower section of the plot houses the car porch with a ramp and staircase, connecting it to the home which sits on the higher land area. The house consist of a single-storey open living space, which intersects perpendicularly to a 2-storey building with closed private rooms.

Gasing Indah House / Seshan Design

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:00:00 +0000

This is one of our favorite houses. It embraces our ideals of building small and efficient. It is also one of our earlier prototype projects to test out ideas on future proofing. It was originally a compact two and a half story, 1625 sqft intermediate link house, which we souped-up to 4 stories (half basement and master bedroom attic) with an internal green wall courtyard. It now has an approx 2400 sqft final built up.

8th International Conference on World Class Sustainable Cities 2016 (WCSC 2016)

Rene Submissions — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 18:24:00 +0000

The 8th series of the ‘International Conference on World Class Sustainable Cities’ (WCSC) event is themed ‘City Spaces, Public Places’ with the objectives of addressing and focusing on the benefits of greater accessibility and better public spaces that will enhance social, economic and environmental elements of the city and its livability. Urban public spaces – sidewalks, parks, squares, traditional markets, and small plazas — and how people use them – humanize cities.

SS3 House / Seshan Design

Daniela Cardenas — Tue, 31 May 2016 22:00:00 +0000

A new built, 4600 sqft built up bungalow on an aprox 7400 sqft land in SS3, one of the bigger residential suburbs of Petaling Jaya.

Clay Roof House / DRTAN LM Architect

Florencia Mena — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:00:00 +0000

The House is located on a small lot in the older suburbs of Petaling Jaya. The owners had purchased an old dilapidated house and wanted to rebuild a new family home. Upon inspection it was discovered that the old house had good quality Indian clay roof tiles that were still robust. And as the property faced west, the clay roof tiles offered a good solution to vertically screen the façade from the morning and afternoon sun.

AD Classics: Menara Mesiniaga / T. R. Hamzah & Yeang Sdn. Bhd.

David Douglass-Jaimes — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 08:00:00 +0000

Marking both an ending, and a beginning, the Menara Mesiniaga (Mesiniaga Tower) in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia (just outside of Kuala Lumpur), is the culmination of Ken Yeang’s years of research into passive strategies for tall buildings, and it marks the first in a line of buildings (what he calls his ‘Series 2’ towers) that fully realize Yeang’s bioclimatic design principles. The embodiment of his tenacious goal to bring passive design to the hot humid climate of Southeast Asia, the principles on display at Menara Mesiniaga have influenced subsequent skyscraper designs across the globe.

S14 House / archicentre

Cristian Aguilar — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 22:00:00 +0000

A new two storey residential in the existing established suburb of Section 14, Petaling Jaya. The new extension integrates with the existing old structure and trees on site.

House N18 / DRTAN LM Architect

Jonathan Alarcón — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 01:00:00 +0000

No. 18 is a three-storey green residence located in the suburb of Sunway Damansara, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. The site slopes up gradually from the street towards the rear, meeting the foot of an abrupt reinforced incline that marks the start of the nature reserve behind. The brief called for a sustainable green home for a large family with generous open living spaces to entertain guests and private rooms customised to each family member’s requirements.

S11 House / ArchiCentre

Diego Hernández — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The S11 house is located in an established older suburb of Petaling Jaya. The existing old house on the site was built in the early 1960’s and had become dilapidated and run-down over the years. A new green tropical house was planned for the site and conceptualized along the lines of a tree. The large tree canopy would cover and shelter the living spaces underneath it. The S11 House was designed to achieve the highest level Platinum rating of Malaysia’s Green Building Index (GBI).