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CASCADE
CASCADE
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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CASCADE
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2024
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
Cascade House is a reconstruction of an existing three-storey bungalow on a corner lot within a quiet housing district in Bukit Jalil. The original dwelling belonged to a familiar suburban lineage: pale rendered walls, layered pitched clay-tile roofs, and small projecting balconies supported by simple brackets. It read as incremental additions rather than a single, legible idea. Time had also made its presence visible in a patchwork envelope—deep eaves and narrow openings prioritised shade and enclosure, leaving the overall massing visually unsettled against the street.
The corner condition intensifies this reading. With two street edges and long oblique views along the boundary, the house is encountered in motion, from the junction approach to the slow slide of its perimeter wall. The brief therefore becomes double: to give the rebuilt home a calm, coherent order on an exposed lot, and to re-secure domestic privacy while remaining responsive to heat, glare, and monsoon rain.
The new house is conceived as a disciplined assemblage of white volumes held in tension by a darker architectural datum—a continuous canopy and plinth line that grounds the composition. At street level, deep overhangs establish shade and scale, allowing the upper masses to step, cantilever, and recess without reading as unstable. Openings are treated as calibrated extrusions rather than generic windows. Projecting bays, slit apertures, and thickened frames register as inhabitable depth, producing privacy through geometry instead of overt enclosure. The monochrome palette sharpens the reading of shadow, making relief and recess legible across the day. A secondary tectonic layer in steel trims edges; slim-profiled railings introduce a lighter infrastructural counterpoint to the plastered planes.
Arrival is staged through a high perimeter wall that edits the street into a controlled threshold. The entry slips into a shaded forecourt beneath the broad canopy, where the car porch becomes an outdoor room—usable throughout the day through shade, setback glazing, and air movement. Crossing the threshold, one is pulled into an open living–dining–kitchen plate, anchored by a deep central courtyard. This void acts as the house’s climatic engine, drawing daylight down through the plan and encouraging air movement across rooms while keeping the interior shielded from direct views. Set against it, a glazed lift turns vertical circulation into a slow reveal of the home’s sections.
The corner condition intensifies this reading. With two street edges and long oblique views along the boundary, the house is encountered in motion, from the junction approach to the slow slide of its perimeter wall. The brief therefore becomes double: to give the rebuilt home a calm, coherent order on an exposed lot, and to re-secure domestic privacy while remaining responsive to heat, glare, and monsoon rain.
The new house is conceived as a disciplined assemblage of white volumes held in tension by a darker architectural datum—a continuous canopy and plinth line that grounds the composition. At street level, deep overhangs establish shade and scale, allowing the upper masses to step, cantilever, and recess without reading as unstable. Openings are treated as calibrated extrusions rather than generic windows. Projecting bays, slit apertures, and thickened frames register as inhabitable depth, producing privacy through geometry instead of overt enclosure. The monochrome palette sharpens the reading of shadow, making relief and recess legible across the day. A secondary tectonic layer in steel trims edges; slim-profiled railings introduce a lighter infrastructural counterpoint to the plastered planes.
Arrival is staged through a high perimeter wall that edits the street into a controlled threshold. The entry slips into a shaded forecourt beneath the broad canopy, where the car porch becomes an outdoor room—usable throughout the day through shade, setback glazing, and air movement. Crossing the threshold, one is pulled into an open living–dining–kitchen plate, anchored by a deep central courtyard. This void acts as the house’s climatic engine, drawing daylight down through the plan and encouraging air movement across rooms while keeping the interior shielded from direct views. Set against it, a glazed lift turns vertical circulation into a slow reveal of the home’s sections.
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