This design questions the predominant and conventional balconies display in Housing high-rise Buildings.
Kuala Lumpur, being Malaysia’s reflex of Economical growth, has become one of the most explosive examples how a financial crescent may have a positive influence in the society, providing several investments on real-estate that enhance life quality.
However, space is often provided not as a fully usable as inhabitable space, particularly in the specific cases of High-rise Buildings.
The Design for the Kenny Heights Towers focuses on this specific situation.
The morphology of the common high-rise balcony is here questioned, and re-interpreted towards a better human usage of space.
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SOLAR RESPONSIVE PATTERN
Note: Each tower is analysed according it's specific solar exposure.
That information is translated into a dot-pattern that is applied in the façade providing shadow.
This pattern is generated in as a compensation for the areas where the balconies don't cast shadow, generating a unique façade for each tower.
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The long and narrow balcony is extended into a fully balanced proportioned balcony: a circular geometrical base extends the existing balconies typology, originating outdoor terraces with fully panoramic views over the surroundings.
From the the sameness among the multiple apartments, (which introduces an equal character along the whole building), we retrieve a new Typology of Balconies that introduces a variable throughout the equal Housing Units.
The Balconies display varies along the building, creating unique outdoor spaces in relation to a constant typology of Dwellings.
This generates singularity to each if the multiple apartments, retrieving heterogeneous relations from the house towards the exterior along the whole building.
By morphing towards the exterior the common continuous narrow balcony we create pocket spaces within the balcony itself, generating large well proportioned outer spaces for the housing units.
Rhinoceros; Grasshopper
The rule for the display of the balconies was that each house had to have a determined amount of balcony sqm.
Also, each floor had a required amount of outdoor area, and the fixing points of the balconies were predetermined through the existing building constrains.
This 3 conditionals formed the parametric rule that displayed the balconies over the façade, in an apparent randomized display, though strictly ordered.
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