Sustainability_Project



= Bird Island House =

GRAF
**Time:** 2007-2010 **Location:** Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia **Type:** Single Family House

**GRAFT is eager to explore territories of design offered by a new awareness of and open-mindedness to sustainable design, translating energy-saving requirements into poetic design solutions which are not only environmentally friendly and efficient, but provide a new interpretation of the spaces we live in. Along these lines, Bird Island House presents a cost-saving response to warm climate habitation. These living quarters provide an expansive shaded and ventilated outdoor living deck, concentrating the primary living space in a cooler interior core**.

=**Concept**= Graft have applied an integrated strategy of developing a zero-energy house that seamlessly dovetails the economic and environmental advantages of environmentally friendly living with the needs of a demanding and cosmopolitan clientele. While providing an expansive outdoor living deck that spans the whole of the site, the primary living space is concentrated inside cooled zones. The traditional relationship between indoor and outdoor has been shifted, allowing for comfort while free of the bonds of traditional walls. Extended living spaces are arranged separately from each other and bisected by landscaped areas with local vegetation. The surrounding tensile fabric flows through the interior, shaping and imbuing the spaces with sublime shading and view patterns. Heavy sliding curtains enclose living spaces and create privacy.

=**Skin**= The skin is a tensile, environmentally friendly fabric through which the outside world is seen. The skin turns and twists along the façade changing its transparency and guiding the view of the residents out to the landscape and views of the area. Viewed together, the individual strands of fabric create patterns which flow naturally over the skin.

=**Materials**= The construction materials have been chosen when appropriate from renewable or recycled materials. Special attention has been paid to select materials either for their low embodied energy, and / or for their superior durability and performance.

This project like many others shows us that there is a way to do architecture without damaging or spoiling the environment, and it is our responsibility to follow that path environmentalist for to-morrow be will be a better place to live.

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