Commercial, executive and mixed architecture

Jury’s Assessment

“The construction is an expressive, perfectly straight cantilever structure used as a visitor centre. It combines a series of pre-existing buildings and vegetation (tea factory/warehouse), forming a 145 metre long “path of experience”. The constraint of a low budget has been turned to account, with the exclusive use of simple, locally available materials and low-tech building techniques. The beautiful surroundings have been exploited by using a metal structure with transparent walls, filled in at irregularly spaced points by slices from pine trunks and/or glass.

project: Visitor Centre

architect: Huat Lim

type: public

place: Highlands Tea Estate, Malaysia

date: 2006

contractor: Benaju Sdn Bhd

client: Boh Plantation Sdn Bhd

surface area: 1,233.8 sq m

Visitor Centre

Highlands Tea Estate, Malaysia

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