Shell House, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Architect: Kevin Low, 2010. View from the kitchen table into the courtyard decking.
A two-storey bungalow, the gardenshell house began a fresh series of houses which attempt to maximise the trades and materials of local industry and minimise cost through methods of unfinish: an early beginning to an aesthetic of the 'under constructed'. With walls of pervious cement brick dimensioned for passive cooling, the occlusion of water during the monsoons, and the sibilant hiss of an elevated concrete transit line running along the rear boundary of the site, the gardenshell house wraps its private inner and transparent spaces with an enclosure of un-plastered brick set into the frame of a similarly unfinished concrete structure - a raw shell designed to receive protection from the elements and a finish of natural growth with each passing year.
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