Fillet House Nofoaga by Kee Yen Lim is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Ario in Mamanu Fausaga Fale Competition Category.

ArioFausaga Fale· 2021

Fillet House Nofoaga

by Kee Yen Lim

Client: Kee Yen Architect

A' Design Award Ario Winner in Fausaga Fale Category

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The Design

About Fillet House Nofoaga

O le manatu o le faʻateleina o le faʻavae o le fale i le pito o le fanua e ala i pito lapotopoto ma pito tauafo, o le foliga faʻapipiʻi ma faigofie e tali atu i le tau vevela, polokalame faʻatulagaina ma lona itumalo tuaoi. I le vaʻaiga mai le tulaga o le auala, o se tele faʻasolosolo ua siitia malosi mai lona siosiomaga. O meafaigaluega na tuʻufaʻatasia ai le paʻepaʻe, uliuli, ma le efuefu o fogāfale mafiafia pipiʻi, faʻatasi ai ma papaga o laau ma le manino o tioata, faʻapipiʻiina se foliga o loʻo iloga tulaga ese i totonu o lona itumalo tuaoi.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Ario

O le A' Design Award Ario na manumalo ai Fillet House Nofoaga, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu sili ona lelei, matagofie ma mataʻutia. O ē manumalo i le Ario o galuega susulu tele ma fatufatuaʻi e faaalia ai le poto, le taleni ma le atamai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina Fillet House Nofoaga e avea ma galuega matagofie, o se fesuiaiga mo isi, e iloga i le tomai faapolofesa ma mea fou loloto. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Ario o se mea e iloga, ua mataʻina e aogā ma tuleia atu tapulaʻa o le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi. Fillet House Nofoaga o se mea e fiafia i ai le toatele, e fafagu ai manaʻoga, aumaia ai lagona lelei ma tupu ai le ofo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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