Lapatoo House / Fabian Tan Architect

Textual content description offered by the architects. Nestled in an prosperous space of Kuala Lumpur, Lapatoo Home is a three-story semi-detached residence with a built-up space of 5000 sqft set on a 6,000 sqft plot. The sq. type of the home mirrors the geometry of the land. Entry into the home reveals a sunken lobby that steps as much as an open plan residing, eating, and kitchen house. To the left of the doorway lies a visitor bed room. The primary residing areas prolong seamlessly to the entrance, rear, and aspect deck, which opens to an infinity pool the place the water edge meets with the deck degree, a coated lounge pavilion, and a landscaped backyard.

On the coronary heart of the home is a three-story void topped by a timber-clad pitched ceiling with a skylight that floods the inside with pure gentle. This central house was impressed by the shopper’s sturdy household ties, making a “singular” quantity that connects the bottom and first flooring each horizontally and vertically.

The staircase to the primary ground follows the angular boundary wall, whereas the second-floor stair runs perpendicular, permitting gentle to filter into the stairwell voids created. On the primary ground, a hall loops across the central void, connecting the main bedroom and the kids’s bedrooms by way of massive sliding doorways. The ground cantilevers outward on all sides with a concrete end, providing shade to the deck areas beneath and defining the outside. The steeply pitched roof, extending on three sides, options slender edge particulars that unify the architectural language.

The rooftop degree homes a non-public leisure room and additional up is a hid rooftop house on the apex of the roof pitch which offers an elevated vantage level to absorb the encompassing views.