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Project Aqualive

Project Aqualive has been a favourite with us, a celebration in water and light. This is the entrance view, with similar design elements as the Beijing Showroom, exuding simply a sense of external awareness and sheer delight in using the simplest materials. Columns of water lit at night casts fantastic shadows and colour onto the pavement, a way-finding element.

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]

AquaCity

This is an image that we use to illustrate ZLG's focus on executing concepts which are ultra-zonic,meaning explorations of territory outside the realm of mainstream building typology. Whilst our interests lie in architecture we also feel consistently attracted to investigating realms of architecture in new environments, in this case the seas of East Malaysia, a project to generate offshore communities some two hundred miles off the coast of Sabah.

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