Box Design Studio’s elegant play on geometry makes for the perfect family home in Kuala Lumpur
This project is aptly named “Un-fold”, perfectly encapsulating how the whole residence is laid out coherently and articulately. The intersecting planes and their resultant volumes make this building seem almost like origami executed on a large scale.
Lucas Fong, managing director of Box Design Studio, explains that elements of the exterior and interior play on “geometric manipulation” and “capacious spaces”. The result is a meticulously-designed house that blends clean modernity with an assured sense of the grand and imposing.
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Shaping up
One of the most important considerations was to balance the dimensions of the structure. The piece of land itself measures 8700 sq ft, while the eventual build-up comes to 8659 square feet.
Given the relatively narrow confines, there was a risk that the 3-storey residence would seem squashed or spindly. The ingenious design solution was to play with the idea of “unfolding”.
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