STATUS. schematic design

LOCATION. kuala lumpur, malaysia

TIMELINE. 2014

AREA. 3.224 acres

CLIENT. bernard

ROLE. design lead // designer

Hands down, my favorite residential! The touch of brick in this building is what makes the entire building stand out so much.

Unfortunately thou, this building never took off. My client had his eyes on this piece of land which was sitting on a hill side, overlooking Mid Valley City at the heart of KL. But the problem with this land which at the end made him not proceed with acquiring it was the crazy setback required because of an elevated LRT (train) line running very close to the lot.

We tried to change the land use from residential to commercial to make the project feasible, but were rejected by the city hall. So this project came to a very very sad ending!

The initial concept was to create 2 towers sitting at each corner of the land overlooking the city. We later managed to convince the client to place a low-rise less dense set of units in between the 2 towers so that the building is not totally contrasting the surrounding environment mainly consisting of bungalows and landed houses.

Since the land was not flat, we took advantage of the slope and designed the parking structure to cascade down while providing a platform for the building to rise beyond the LRT (train) line running south of the lot.