The Green House Effect
Home & Decor Malaysia|July 2017

WHBC Architects’ concrete tropical box embraces the lush jungle and manages to blur the lines between inside and outside.

The Green House Effect

Like luxury cars, designer handbags, and high end mechanical watches, palatial homes are often built to telegraph wealth. Its size, locale, and contents are brandished like a kind of status symbol to communicate to the world at large that “i’ve made it!” Nonetheless, even in a city with its fair share of conspicuous consumers like Kuala Lumpur, there are those who place importance on other values. A wonderful example of this backlash of bigger-is-better, and rejection that flash-is-best, is the Chempenai House, an intimate, almost minimalistic dwelling designed by WHBC Architects. The house displays an adherence to modernist principles, as well as an affinity with their immediate surroundings.

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