Fillet House Ụlọ Obibi by Kee Yen Lim is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha in Nhazi Ụlọ Owu, Ụlọ na Ihe Owuwu Competition Category.

ỌlaọchaỤlọ Owu· 2021

Fillet House Ụlọ Obibi

by Kee Yen Lim

Client: Kee Yen Architect

Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha Winner in Ụlọ Owu Category

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The Design

About Fillet House Ụlọ Obibi

Echiche ahụ bụ ime ka ntọala ụlọ ahụ dị na nkuku baa ụba site n'iji nkuku gbara gburugburu ma ọ bụ akụkụ gbara gburugburu, ụdị nwere ahịrị dị mfe nke kwekọrọ na mpaghara okpomọkụ, mmemme a kara aka na mpaghara gburu ya gburugburu. Mgbe a na-ele ụlọ ahụ site n'ọkwa okporo ụzọ, a na-ahụ akụkụ ụlọ nwere ahịrị dị mfe nke dị iche iche n'ọkwa nke buliri elu nke ukwuu site na gburugburu ya. Ihe ndị e ji wuo ya jikọtara mpempe akwụkwọ siri ike gbara okirikiri nke ọcha, ojii na isi awọ yana mmetụ osisi na enyo nke na-enye ìhè, na-eme ka ụdị ahụ dị mfe ma na-apụta ihe nke ukwuu n'etiti mpaghara ya.

The Recognition

About the Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha

Fillet House Ụlọ Obibi meriri A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha, nnabata dị oke ugwu e nyere design ndị dị n'ọkwa kachasị elu, mara mma ma na-eju anya. Ndị meriri na Ọlaọcha bụ ọrụ na-egbu maramara nke ukwuu ma dị oke nzụlite nke na-egosi ọmarịcha ihe ọmụma, talent na nghọta nke ndị designer ha. A na-atụ anya na Fillet House Ụlọ Obibi ga-abụ ọrụ dị ịtụnanya, ihe nlereanya, nke dị oke ọrụ ma dị omimi n'ihe ọhụrụ. Design a meriri A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha bụ ihe e mepụtara dị oke ịrịba ama, nke a na-eto nke na-erite uru ma na-ebuga oke nka, sayensị, design na teknụzụ n'ihu. Fillet House Ụlọ Obibi bụ ihe e kere eke ọtụtụ ndị na-ekwo ekworo ya nke na-akpali ọchịchọ, na-eweta mmetụta ọma ma na-akpali ịtụnanya.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The idea was to maximise the corner lot building plinth using rounded corners or rounded edges, the filleted streamlined form in response to the tropics, designated programmes and its neighbourhood.

Viewing the building from the street level, a staggered filleted mass was elevated vigorously from its surrounding. The palettes of materials combined the white, black, and grey curved solid planes with touches of timber and transparency of glasses, streamlining a form which is manly standing out within its neighbourhood.
Dimensions & Packaging: Sized at 1,100 meter square
Tags: ModernTropicalHouse, TropicalHouse, FilletHouse, KeeYen, KeeYenArchitect
Production Technology: The crafted metal railing wrapping the concrete spiral staircase was a continuity flow of the filleted corners. Metal plate was laser-cut in factory and welded on-site to form and craft the curvatures. The solidness of the spiral form being isolated with random vertical metal plate rails adding another layering effect to the interior. This sculpted spiral stair with a backdrop of large glazing is framing and inviting the green scenes from outside to inside. The shadows filled this volume poetically especially in the morning.
Design Challenge: A high volume air well where the sculptural spiral staircase located is faces northeast with a large glass panel. Southwest facing front façade is introduced with horizontal sun shading devices, aluminium fin running through its façade as a design feature. The recessed space at the frontage of the house becomes a garage and it can be converted into a veranda for family activities. Externally, the sliding timber screen not only acting as the sun shading screen but also portrays security and privacy to the occupants. Eventually, it manipulates different layers and screens to romanticise its architectural spatial experiences.
Research: Masses are subtracted from its original to create openness which allowing for day-light penetrations and bring cross ventilation closer to happens within its layout when glazed doors and windows are fully opened. Natural light enters the house across the levels, from open terraces and master lounge at second floor level to the living hall at the ground floor level through a tempered laminated glass floor and void openings at its first-floor level next to the dance hall.
Inspiration: Terminology in design, a fillet is a rounded corner or rounded edge. The main four corners of the house are being filleted or rounded as to soften the original allowed cubic mass. The filleted corner achieved a wholeness and streamlining the building form externally. The building mass was then configured in respond to the tropics, designated programmes and its neighbourhood with subtracted volumes for open terraces and voids.
Project Duration: The project started in 2018 in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia and finished in December 2020.
Image Credits: Photographer Pixelaw Photography