The Glass Architecture in Malaysia

Residential (Case Studies)

“the task of architecture is to make visible how the world touches us…through vision, we touch the stars and the sun.”

(Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1994)

• Within the house (residential), the glass concept was further developed:– Viewing– Observing– Duality of show + display– Ideas of gazing and space

Glass Shed @

• Designed by Ng Seksan (Landscape Architect)

• Inspired by adjacent Orang Asli huts – using stilts and treading lightly on

the land

• Site is heavily vegetated, with steep slopes

• Why GLASS? – Celebrate the nature (forest + +

landscape) – Transparent qualities– Seems to be “floating” beside the

stream– Reflective qualities

• aesthetic – transparency, space, light• glass + steel is its entire structure.• bold experiment material of choice :

respect the surrounding environment

responding to the privacy of the inhabitants.

incur least disruption to the forest

reduce long term maintenance

• 41-storey of residential tower

• glass-wrapped sculpture

• present a study in lightness and strength

• opens the interior to dramatic panoramas of the Kuala Lumpur cityscape

• by night, the tower will be illuminated by LED, become the luminous tower of lights.

• conceived as “seamless”, although made up of glass panels, the fluid organic lines of the façade is presented.

The OVAL @ Kuala Lumpur