In 1997 during financial crisis in Malaysia, a lot of the projects were affected. Developers were concentrating on medium high cost projects to provide alternative for successful launching. This was one of such project which consists of two hundred over units of apartment in a 19 storey block, and five storey carpark with facilities on a three acres site.
My role was the Project Architect and Design Architect under Architect Habitas. The biggest challenge was how to make a medium high cost looks expensive and exclusive on a small site. The scene in Europe especially Austria, Germany, France, where castles stood up among the pines forest with their pointed roofs always impress me that i took this theme to turn this condo into castle -like building. The only thing that did not turn out the way we liked to was to make the carpark block lower than five storeys ,which was due to high carparking requirement from the DBKL planning department. In Europe the carpark requirement was lot lower.
Anyway, the project was a success and fully sold out in trying times. I did not finish supervising the construction of the whole project because i was required to work on Mont'Kiara Damai Condominium and Mont' Kiara Aman's design.
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