Asian Architecture S11 House Topic & Issue Proposal

1. Asian Architecture (ARC 2234/ARC60403)
Project Part B: Case Study Paper
TOPIC & ISSUE PROPOSAL
NAME: ID:
KENNETH CHANG WEI JIAN 0318252
KOH SUNG JIE 0318912
LIEW JIN 0318449
LUM SI CHU 0319502
NG EE SHIUNG 0314228
PABLO IDRIS 0321895

2. Responding to Warm and Humid Climate using Building Orientation as one
of the Passive Design Strategies of S11 House in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Research Question(s):
Question 1: Why is building orientation a significant part of S11 House’s passive design?
Question 2: How does the building orientation influence other passive design strategies?
Question 3: How does this strategy govern the overall design of the building?
Question 4: How does the building orientation affect the neighbouring structures?
Question 5: What are the drawbacks encountered when using this strategy in the S11 House?

3. Summary of the topic
To design a sustainable building is to consider the environmental impacts without denying human comfort. Therefore,
the current architecture now integrates both nature and context. Through multiple techniques and the advent of strong
historical architecture, various buildings now exhibits a message of cultural relevancy and the unity between
architecture and user.
The chosen site is the S11 House located amidst the bungalows in Petaling Jaya, Kuala Lumpur. The S11 House is
designed to be as efficient as possible through the use of clever passive design and material efficiency. The architect
is local so with the abundance of experience designing for buildings in Malaysia, he carefully designs this house to be
as energy efficient as possible in this warm tropical climate country. The details we are delving into is the building
orientation of the S11 House that the architect had intended with the design of this house in relation with the climate to
prevent unnecessary heat gain, exposure to sunlight, invasion of privacy while taking in the cool air from the wind rose.
Being a bungalow in the midst of a residential area, the architect must also keep the building contextual with several
typologies similar to the older buildings around the area. These typologies actually matter as the designs are traditional
methods of passive design. The architect takes the contextual typologies of neighbouring houses and blends it into his
own design for the S11 House where he bridges the gap of nature with efficient passive design to bring the natural
cooling elements into the S11 House.
Bibliography
Baker, N. (1987). Passive and low energy building design for tropical island climates. London: Commonwealth
Secretariat.
This book is to promote the application of climate-responsive building design principles to eliminate or reduce
building energy needs.
Bere, J. (n.d.). An introduction to passive house.
This book contains international case studies that reveals the technical and creative secrets of an aesthetically
designed passive house.
S.P.Rao. Impacts of orientation on daylighting in high-rise office ... (n.d.). Retrieved October 11, 2016, from http://e-
journal.um.edu.my/filebank/published_article/9148/JDBE Vol 15(2) - Impacts of orientation on daylighting in high-rise
office buildings in Malaysia.pdf
This e-journal is more about a building’s orientation and how important it is to design a passive design building with
the use of maximum day lighting and and to reduce the needs of artificial lighting.