Gale’s Residence is an amazing brick house located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, redesigned in 2021 by Gibertandtan Design Studios.

Description
Gale?s Residence is a complete remodeling of a 1970s terrace house located in a hilly suburb of Kuala Lumpur. The brief was to reconfigure the layout and to transform an interior that was dark, cloistered, and suffered from many poorly designed spaces; into one that feels bright, spacious, and well organized.
At the onset, lengthy conversations took place with the owner to either up-cycle the existing frame or instead extend with a second floor (a common scenario in the region with the underlying motive to optimize value). The final decision to up-cycle and to dwell in optimizing the one-story model resulted from the owner?s desire to enhance the building?s original character. While retaining the original frame, important interventions were made to accommodate the new owner?s requirements. The revisited layout now divides the house neatly into two distinctive zones, the living, dining, kitchen, and other common spaces on one side, and bedrooms and bathrooms on the other. One enters the front door (a full-width bi-folding window that maintains full visual continuity with the front garden) to an open plan whereby the house common areas are subtly segmented into several ?micro spaces? through furniture and changes in floor finishes.
To add a sense of harmony and comfort, we also looked at Southeast Asian vernacul...