Architecture Design

When I browsed through google for some interesting facts on architecture, I stumbled upon this gigantic house, with a distinctive design, and it is located in my current city, Kuala Lumpur. The scale of the house is already enormous, overwhelming the other bungalows surrounding it in a housing area at Damansara. The unique design further differentiate this building with other typically-designed houses surrounding it. This really stands out…YTL Residence

If you don’t know, YTL stands for Yeoh Tiong Lay, and he is one of the richest men in Malaysia. His main company, YTL Corporation is one of Bursa Malaysia’s largest companies. The residence is the ultimate expression of the taste, influence and industrial-scale capabilities of the prominent family whose entrepeneurial activities have shaped Kuala Lumpur’s skyline for many years. The house is designed by Paris-based agency, Jouin Manku and is completed in end of 2008.

Three generations of the prominent family inhabit the 3000 square-meter residence designed to accomodate both private and public functions. The building includes nine bedrooms, two family rooms, a family kitchen and a private dining area, a family library, a game room, a study room, a public reception area, a formal dining room, a ballroom, a chapel, twenty-one bathrooms, a swimming pool, two guest suites plus indoor private and guest parking.

The initial sketches exploring the owners’ usage requirements reveal resemblances to the boring stacked-boxes look still so ubiquitous in residential architecture. While traces of the ‘heaped trailers’ syndrome remained in the finished building, this is not the Jetsons, neither are we looking at Epcot, Tomorrowland or the 1964 New York World’s Fair.