Luxury YTL House in Kuala Lumpur by Patrick Jouin and Sanjit Manku
Patrick Jouin and Sanjit Manku design this mammoth for three generations of a prominent Chinese-Malaysian family. This house consist of three floors comprising nine bedrooms, living and family areas, Western-style and open-air Chinese kitchens, an outdoor breakfast terrace, a formal library, a game room, and a swimming pool. A pair of guest suites is housed in a semi-detached boomerang-shape wing that’s cantilevered out over the hillside. Sweeping terraces, filled with gardens and shady spots for afternoon tea, surround the residence.
The house itself is a long, faceted three-part tube bent around the pool and ringed by ribbons of paved and planted terraces. Its open-plan ground floor, which contains the vast multilevel living, dining, and kitchen areas, is an irregular-shape pavilion enclosed in floor-to-ceiling glass. The glazed walls slide open to the pool on one side, to the sequestered breakfast terrace on the other. The library and family bedrooms occupy a two-story volume that appears to float above the transparent base. The bedroom wings extend well beyond the ground floor footprint, creating deep, column-free overhangs for shaded outdoor living. Each bedroom has a distinct personality.
Jouin and Manku wrapped the upper levels of the house in a shimmery second skin of stainless-steel louvres that open and close electronically, revealing varying amounts of glazing. House was to appear very light, as if tethered to the ground like a balloon rather than crushing the earth.
March 16th, 2010 at 12:04 am
Good
super can simply read out. Interestingly outlined.
December 22nd, 2011 at 2:17 pm
how much does it cost? Around 20million?