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BOH Visitor Centre

View of the BOH Visitor Centre taken from the valley below. For details of location and visits, please contact ZLG. This project attracted a fair amount of publicity principally due to its unusual design using site context to inform the concept, notably utilising fallen trees as facade elements and also for not disturbing any of the existing site forms and existing trees.

 

Great Shot

Ir Pang, our engineer, captured this wonderful image of the approach to the new BOH Visitor Centre in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. This project was conceived to provide some 12 000 sqft of new retail and visitor facilities for the tea estate, and is now open to visitors. Building is constructed using structural steel, the envelope kept transparent, and no felling of trees, and all materials are used in the best interest of the conserving the site. Fallen trees [from storms] are re-cycled, cut into logs and made into facade. What is even more incredible, the project took just over a year to execute, and costs under USD 500,000.

Design: Susanne ZEIDLER, huat LIM
Project Direction: Dorian LANDERS [Host Asia]

Bamboo Canopies

Study of the external blocks housing the bathrooms and the toilets: Materials are used to preserve the natural feel of the site, and also to enhance visual porosity of the scheme. Thin black metal columns and similarly appointed handrails and balusters are placed in strategic locations to give this BOH Visitor Centre a light feeling, with high ceilings and bamboo finished canopies promote the tropical ambiance of the entire project.

Design: Susanne ZEIDLER and Huat LIM
Project Team: Huat LIM, Jimmy WONG, Hong Chieh YOW
Builder: Daniel KAM

Random Logs

BOH Visitor Center in Cameron Highlands' wall elements are composed of naturally found fallen trees in the environs, whose logs are then located into metal framed windows that line the entire 140m length of the building, providing a visually pleasing facade design that works as a sun screen.

Project Direction: ZLG Design
Design: Susanne ZEIDLER, Huat LIM, Hong Chieh YOW, Jimmy WONG

Spotty Facade

BOH's new Visitor Center in Cameron Highlands will set a new tone for Malaysian architecture, we hope countrywide. It should represent the first building [of its kind utilizing entirely natural finishes and raw materials in a big way, and also as cladding and envelope elements in an unusual way. This project has taken no more than just over a year to complete for not too much money, mainly because of the architect's commitment to use only the most economic and affordable materials and low energy design and technology. The building however has been constructed to the highest possible standards to meet with the sometimes very harsh weather conditions of Cameron Highlands. Designed to be naturally ventilated, the BOH Visitor Center is a totally new retail and showroom concept for a visitor facility, having been planned to work linearly for circulation, promising a unique visual and audio experience for visitors who will be presented with soem quite awesome views of the vast tea estate in this beautiful highland location of Malaysia.

Design: Susanne ZEIDLER, Huat LIM
Project Direction: Host Asia

BOH Visitor Centre

BOH Visitor Centre is ZLG's latest completed work, designed to provide extensive visitor facilities and leisure programs in Malaysia's Cameron Highlands Tea Estate. Opened since last September 2005, this 140m long building is naturally ventilated, and is constructed almost entirely of natural materials, amongst others, wood and logs and stones collected in the vicinity of the site.

For travel arrangements and details please send email to ZLG Design.

Concept: Susanne ZEIDLER, Huat LIM