Constant/Variable - Desires & Encounters

A few years back, Richard Meier was asked to reflect on the changes in architecture industry since the 60s, in which he points out that the most significant change has been the scale of buildings."There's a scale to New York as there is a scale to London, and that's what makes the city great – as you walk from one area to another the scale changes and you feel related at ground level to what's around you. That's started changing – the way it is now, it's disrespectful. It's disrespectful to a whole city, so I'm very concerned that everyone's trying to make a taller building here. This is not Kuala Lumpur, it's New York. New York has a quality to it and you have to respect the context".

Yes, KL has a towering issue. - But at this point, what can we do about it?

Drawn by the things that make the buildings and the city happen, and by the things that buildings and city make happen. “Desires & Encounter” offers a unique perspective of the city we live in. Made up of vertical frame towers, horizontal planes, and slanted/ diagonal stair-like structures, all put together in a way that lets us see our cityscape truly from a more human and personal perspective. It’s a human scale skyscraper! All kinds of skyscrapers are already patched in our city’s identity, as if they are one of us. We live inside one as our home and within them as our neighbours.

This is not an attempt to address the issue, but rather to embrace it. Maybe the most sustainable way to live/work/play/explore in this city is just to live with and within it. Perhaps, that is Kuala Lumpur.

Despite the layers and depths of the city, one would always seek a point of focus. We don’t realize it, but we often frame our views, mending our ways. Through these almost unintentional curated visions, one would either deny a particular prospect or embrace it with the utmost enthusiasm. In this process, architecture must cope with the unpredictable. In the scale of a city, where verticality and horizontality become endless and monotone, one might become hopeless. To create hope within the hopeless, we inhabit. Inhabitation gives its existence a purpose – progressively becoming a collective memory of the dreams produced in it. - of what has been and what it (the city) would become.