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Rumah Kechik / Kaizen Architecture

Hana Abdel — Sat, 25 May 2024 23:00:00 +0000

Located in the UNESCO World Heritage City of Malacca, Malaysia, Rumah Kechik is a conservation and adaptive reuse intervention within three 200-year-old shophouses as part of an extension to an existing hotel development named Baba House, Melaka. Through respectful insertion and subtraction strategies, the project seamlessly accommodates new programmatic requirements while paying homage to the structures' history.

A Series of Barns / L Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 20:00:00 +0000

An idea for adaptive reuse was conceived when the design team was tasked to design a developer’s head office and gallery. The idea was to turn a row of abandoned half-built shop offices into a barn-like structures where it attempts to blend into its surrounding landscape.

Pile Houses / Pencil Office

Jonathan Alarcón — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This twenty-six bungalow development in Johor, Malaysia inserts new typologies on the bedsprings of a vacant pile field. The site was developed in 1995. However, after the foundations were put in place, the Asian financial crisis hit. After 13 years of dereliction, the new architecture was tasked with resurrecting the ambitions of earlier years. The design extends the original pile grid into 26 new houses, transforming a generic housing development into a small neighborhood of cohesiveness that addresses environmental concern, and optical calibration. One house has been constructed to date.