Thursday, November 1, 2007

Quarter-detached houses in Maran

The cluster house (Charles Bage, England), le carre mulhouse (Muller, France), the quadruple house (Frank Lloyd Wright, US) – different names for a type of house that did not quite catch on anywhere in the world…….except perhaps in Malaysia. It is not that this house-type is common, but developers here have been building cluster houses since the 1970’s.
Initially, they were low-cost houses, but lately they have tended to be priced in a more expensive category – cheaper than semi-detached houses, but more expensive than terrace houses.

In Maran, a district town in the state of Pahang in Malaysia, I have designed a cul-de-sac neighbourhood right next to the town-centre.


Mosaic cul-de-sac


In this layout are “quarter-detached houses” - the same concept with yet another name (sorry).


Quarter-detached houses


Then there are the “corner quarter detached houses”, a close relative of Frank Lloyd Wright’s quadruple house: viewed from any one driveway, you see a unit that looks like a detached house!


corner quarter-detached house


There are also “garden townhouses”, much like the quarter-detached houses, but with separate units upstairs and downstairs; and with each unit having its own garden and private car porch.


Downstairs unit, with a garden at the side



Upstairs unit with a garden and porch below


There is a variant of the garden townhouse when it is located at the corner of two streets.


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More about this project later.

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2 comments:

Kyle and Svet Keeton said...

Those are nice homes.

I would love one here in Moscow all we have are Flats. Any single family dwelling is out of city limits.

Kyle

Mazlin Ghazali said...

Kuala Lumpur has the advantages of being a small city of about 4 miilion. I live in a "kampong baru"(new village) community 15 minutes from the city centre.
But I don't get to walk to work!
Can't have it all!