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M+, Hong Kong. Gift of Architects Team 3, 2015, © Malayan Architects Co-partnership
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Malayan Architects Co-partnership 馬來亞合伙制建築事務所
Exterior photographs, house for Ali Abdullah (1959–1961), Petaling Jaya, Malaysia 馬來西亞八打靈再也 Ali Abdullah 住宅（1959至1961年）外部照片
1961
The Malayan Architects Co-partnership designed this house in Petaling Jaya, west of Kuala Lumpur, between 1959 and 1961. The house is set on a hillside overlooking what was then a developing satellite city, which the state government had established in the 1950s to alleviate overcrowding in Malaysia’s capital.
The house is made up of two single-storey rectangles stacked in an asymmetrical ‘T’ shape. The ground level’s shorter edge abuts the slope below; the cantilevered upper floor shades car parking near the home’s entrance. A regular structural grid defines square bays clad in an abstract composition of timber, glass, and opaque infill. In several areas, walls drop back to create balconies covered by the home’s thick, flat roof or screened with pelupuh—panels of flattened bamboo.
In its rectangular geometry, visible structural details, and flexible, semi-exterior spaces, the house applies the formal language of European-American modernism to local materials, climate, and vernacular approaches to light construction. One of a series of houses developed in the firm’s early years, the project is an example of an architecture meant to serve an emerging class of urban professionals in Malaysia.
The house is made up of two single-storey rectangles stacked in an asymmetrical ‘T’ shape. The ground level’s shorter edge abuts the slope below; the cantilevered upper floor shades car parking near the home’s entrance. A regular structural grid defines square bays clad in an abstract composition of timber, glass, and opaque infill. In several areas, walls drop back to create balconies covered by the home’s thick, flat roof or screened with pelupuh—panels of flattened bamboo.
In its rectangular geometry, visible structural details, and flexible, semi-exterior spaces, the house applies the formal language of European-American modernism to local materials, climate, and vernacular approaches to light construction. One of a series of houses developed in the firm’s early years, the project is an example of an architecture meant to serve an emerging class of urban professionals in Malaysia.
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