Glass architecture in Malaysian residences celebrates nature and landscape. A glass shed was designed by a landscape architect to float beside a stream, using glass and steel to respect the environment while providing privacy. It reflects its surroundings and allows views of the forest. A 41-story residential tower in Kuala Lumpur is wrapped in glass to open interior spaces to panoramic city views through a sculptural, lightweight design illuminated with LED lights at night.

1. The Glass Architecture in
Malaysia
Residential (Case Studies)

2. “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

3. 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

4. • 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

5. • 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