Many cities in Asia have a number of colonial-era buildings that remain standing till today. Often, these buildings were conceived as public institution, built with good ‘bones’ to support their lives for decades—if not centuries—to come. Yet, many of these buildings have stood empty and unused. This could be due to their functions falling out […]
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FuturArc conducted an interview with Gan Yi Reng and Daniel Lim of Think City about placemaking to create more equitable cities. Here are some of their projects. GYR: When we first started in Johor Bahru, we did a baseline study and tried to understand the population and land use of the city. And from there, […]
The EPIC, located in the Seremban’s Waste Eco Park, is the brainchild of the nation’s largest toxic waste collection and an integrated environmental solutions company. Amidst modern technological advancements, one of the key aspects at the heart of environmental sustainability is energy—how we extract it from our environment, how much we use and how to […]
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Oreintation and Building Design The site is located at the frontage of Persiaran Barat, facing the Federal Highway. The building overlooks the highway, occupying PJ Sentral Garden City’s western boundary and is directly accessible from the Jalan Timur-Jalan Utara ring road as well as the Taman Jaya LRT Station. The building has a northwest orientation […]
In order to minimise ecological impact on the greenery at the site entrance, access into the building is done via a 300-metre-long overhead bridge in which greenery can still thrive underneath. The building is also raised onto a platform 7 metres above ground to allow growth of vegetation tucked at the perimeter of the platform. […]
John G N Bulcock has 36 years of experience working as an architect, planner and landscape designer on a wide variety of projects in Europe, Turkey, India and Southeast Asia. His experience encompasses architecture as well as architectural, master, urban and sustainable planning. Since 1994, he has been commissioned to carry out a variety of […]
RESIDENTIAL: INDIVIDUAL HOUSES Planter Box House is designed to grow food for self-sufficiency. Apart from injecting multiple passive design strategies to create a low-energy home, the house is all covered—from the front to the roof and back—by more than 40 types of edible plants, and essentially tripling the green area of the site. These plants […]
‘Suryamzhu’ Ray of Light (RoL) House is a single-storey, 520-square-metre house, built on an approximately 1,000-square-metre site in a suburban setting of Bukit Gasing, Petaling Jaya. Window House, on the other hand, is a three-storey, 900-square-metre house, built on a hillside plot of around 800 square metres, located on the fringes of a reserved forest […]
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Lying along the main boulevard in Precinct 2 in Putrajaya, the Suasana Putrajaya building has received the Green Building Index (GBI) silver rating (provisional) in 2014 and is scheduled to be completed by the middle of this year. It is designed to fulfil the owner Putrajaya Holdings’ vision of having an anchor project within the mixed-use development […]
Designed to be Malaysia’s first school to achieve the Green Building Index (GBI) Platinum rating, the new campus of the International School of Kuala Lumpur (ISKL) is currently being constructed on a 26-acre site in Ampang Hilir and expected to open in August 2018. The master plan and architectural design of ISKL complement the school’s […]
CONVERGING NATURE AND TECHNOLOGY Completed in July 2014, the Scotland-based Heriot-Watt University Malaysia’s campus is the first purpose-built Green campus (GBI-certified) in Malaysia. The campus, owned by the Putrajaya Holdings Sdn Bhd (PjH), is located on a 6.2-acre site fronting the view of Putrajaya’s Precinct 5 waterfront commercial district. Currently, the first phase of the […]
Nestled in Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, Greenhouse by Muir is a three-storey building that houses four different restaurants, a café and a fully equipped bakery kitchen—each has its own story and distinctive ambience. The client had a vision of having a space that functions as a restaurant and promotes urban farming to the community. PROJECT DATA Project Name […]
