Ustaz L owns a triangular piece of land with a trunk road running along the long side and a minor road along its southern perimeter. He asked me to design a single storey deatched house to meet his quite unique requirements. His calling requires a lot of gatherings in his home, and the layout had to carefully plan for this.
The floor plan is in the shape of an inverted L: the upper wing is the family zone with 4 bedrooms built around a family living room. All bedrooms have their own attached bathrooms.
The lower wing is dominated by two large living rooms for ceramah’s and kenduris’s. They are accessed via an outdoor terrace or serambi, and also via an entrance hall. Ustaz works a lot from home, so he wants an office just off the main entrance. The secondary living room opens onto the dining room – creating a huge area for congregations, and one which is able to cater separately for men and women.
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The public and private domains are effectively separated from each other by the kitchen and utility rooms in the center of the inverted L.
Covered car parking space is provided for at least three cars at the inside corner, providing access to the three zones for guest, family and the kitchen.
The massing of this house – with its large footprint of 5000sf – broken down by having the main building roofed in two parts: with one roof over the family wing and another over the guest area. Where they meet is a flat roof which sits over part of the kitchen space. In between these two wings is another roof over the car porch – here it is raised to allow more light to reach the open-sided porch, and filter through to the internal rooms that have windows facing the porch.
Similarly, the roof over the serambi is lower raised to a higher level; in addition to allowing more light through, this also has the aesthetic effect of emphasizing the main entrance door.
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