Fillet House Nohoanga by Kee Yen Lim is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Hiriwa in Hoahoa Waihanga, Whare me te Hanganga Competition Category.
HiriwaWaihanga· 2021
Fillet House Nohoanga
by Kee Yen Lim
Client: Kee Yen Architect
A' Design Award Hiriwa Winner in Waihanga Category
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About Fillet House Nohoanga
Ko te whakaaro ko te whakarahia te papa tūāpapa o te whenua koki mā te whakamahi i ngā koki āwhio me ngā taha āwhio, ko te āhua rere māeneene e aro ana ki te āhuarangi wera, ki ngā kaupapa kua whakaritea me te takiwā kāinga. I te tiro i te whare mai i te taumata rori, ka whakaara kaha ake tētahi kōpuku pae māeneene i tōna takiwā. I whakakotahi ngā kōwhiringa rauemi i ngā papa mārō āwhio mā, pango, hina me ngā wāhanga rākau me te āiotanga o ngā karāhe, e whakarere ana i tētahi āhua e tū motuhake ana i roto i tōna takiwā kāinga.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Hiriwa
Ko Fillet House Nohoanga te toa o te A' Design Award Hiriwa, he whakaaetanga tino whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa taumata teitei rawa, ātaahua me te whakamīharo. Ko ngā toa Hiriwa he mahi tino kanapa, tino auaha e whakaatu ana i te mātanga, te pūmanawa me te mōhio hōhonu o ā rātou kaihoahoa. E tūmanakohia ana ko Fillet House Nohoanga he mahi whakamīharo, he tauira, he tino ngaio, he auaha hōhonu. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Hiriwa he hanganga rongonui, whakamīharotia e whai wāhi ana ki te whakawhānui i ngā rohe o te toi, te pūtaiao, te hoahoa me te hangarau. Ko Fillet House Nohoanga he mahi e hae ana te tini, e whakaara ana i ngā hiahia, e kawe mai ana i ngā kare-ā-roto pai, ā, e whakaoho ana i te mīharo.
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
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