Private Resort X
This 15.8-acre private resort is located in a highland valley in Pahang. On the whole, the resort is approached to minimally touch the existing hillslope, focusing largely on planted forest with a few landscaped gardens, a central manmade watercourse and buildings scattered around these. The land is split into private and public zones. The private zone is for the client’s use, which houses the main residence, a chapel, back-of-house amenities and a few small pavilions used as private holiday villas. The public zone has a restaurant, art gallery, small pavilions (used as rentable holiday villas), and a feature link bridge.
The conceptual master plan involved initial slope stability assessment, identifying suitable areas to locate the buildings in a site mostly comprising Grade III and IV slopes, planning ingress and egress routes and developing civil engineering strategies that complement the landscaping intents. Stormwater management will be through a network of lined swales and retention ponds, with the manmade watercourse acting as detention pond. A proprietary Danish biological treatment technology was explored for sewerage management, where blackwater will be treated and discharged into the watercourse, and the residual sludge turned into fertilizer.
Location Pahang
Client Private owner
Submission and lead architect CMC Designworks Masterplan architect Inchscape
Services Civil and geotechnical masterplan and structural
Size/ Cost Approx. 16 acres
Status Conceptual design completed
Year 2021 to date
Cameron Retreat
This boutique hotel has been meticulously developed to meet the client’s budget whilst keeping the architect’s signature style for which they were hired for. The structure is mainly in reinforced concrete. The mezzanine floor within each room is of cement board slab on steel grillage, with the grillage laid to suit the aesthetics of its exposed soffit. Steel and cement board is used to enable these to be constructed at a later date with minimal interruption to the existing structure. The structure sits on piles that were designed to accommodate column eccentricities without need for ground beams in order to minimisedisturbance to the existing hillslope, as it is intended for the hillslope to remain untouched.
Location Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands
Client Private owner
Architect Studio Bikin
Services Civil, geotechnical and structural. Inception to construction documentation
Size/ Cost Approx. 8200 sqft
Status Scope completed
Year 2019