Sri Damai at Clearwater

Perak, Malaysia

3220.MAL2007 Award Cycle

Client: Clearwater Sanctuary Golf Management Sdn Bhd

Built Area: 1’276 m²

Cost: US$ 958’055

The adaptability of simple mining structures, in terms of both their use and their response to climate, was the key to this project, a rehabilitation of a 1,200-acre disused tin mine to provide resort accommodation. The construction is low-tech. The reception building consists of minimal and expressed steel structures, with a metal roof and acrylic skins. The chalets are made of metal roofing sheets, brick and plaster, and sustainable local hardwoods. They incorporate generous apertures at either end, to ‘invite in natural breezes and filtered light’. Timber screens and planting stop the rain from thunderstorms being blown in too.

Architect: C’Arch Architecture & Design

Architects

Clients

CommissionDesignConstructionOccupancySiteGround FloorTotal FloorCostsProgramme

Sri Damai at Clearwater

Lot 6019, Jalan Changkat Larang Batu GajahPerak, Malaysia

C’Arch Architecture & DesignJohor, Malaysia

Clearwater Sanctuary Golf Management Sdn BhdPerak, Malaysia

19971997 - 19981998 - 199919992’079 m2

1’276 m2

1’276 m2

US$ 958’055The adaptability of simple mining structures, in terms of both their use and their response to climate, was the key to this project, a rehabilitation of a 1,200-acre disused tin mine to provide resort accommodation. The construction is low-tech. The reception building consists of minimal and expressed steel structures, with a metal roof and acrylic skins. The chalets are made of metal roofing sheets, brick and plaster, and sustainable local hardwoods. They incorporate generous apertures at either end, to ‘invite in natural breezes and filtered light’. Timber screens and planting stop the rain from thunderstorms being blown in too.

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Document B 3220.MAL

I. IDENTIFICATION

Project Title Sri Damai at Clearwater

Street Address Lot 6019, Jalan Changkat Larang

City Batu Gajah, Perak Darul Ridzuan Country Malaysia

II. PERSONS RESPONSIBLE

A. Architect/Planner

Name C' arch architecture & design sdn bhd

Mailing Address 63, Jalan Dato' Haji Harun, Taman Taynton View

City Kuala Lumpur Postal Code 56000

Country Malaysia Telephone 03-9132 5197

Facsimile 03-9132 5977 E-mail c_arch@streamyx.com

Principal Designer Chris Wong Chee Seng, Wilson Sng, I-Wen Foo

B. Client

Name Clearwater Sanctuary Golf Management Bhd

Mailing Address Lot 6019, Jalan Changkat LarangCity Batu Gajah, Perak Darul Ridzuan Postal Code 31000

Country Malaysia Telephone +605 366 7433

Facsimile +605 366 7434 E-mail

C. Project Affiliates/ConsultantsPlease list those involved in the project and indicate their roles and areas of responsibility (e.g. engineers, contractors, economists, master

craftsmen, other architects, clients, etc.). Please cite addresses and telephone numbers separately.

Name Role

S L Chan Consultants Structural Engineer

Zath Perunding Sdn Bhd Mechanical & Electrical Engineer

Pembinaan Teknikhas Sdn Bhd Contractor & Project Manager

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III. TIMETABLE

(please specify year and month)

A. Commission

B. Design Commencement May 1997 Completion March 1998

C. Construction Commencement September 1998 Completion April 1999

D. Occupancy

Remarks, if any:

IV. AREAS AND SURFACES(please indicate in square metres)

A. Total Site Area 2079

B. Ground Floor Area 1276

C. Total Combined Floor Area 1276

(including basement(s), ground floor(s) and all upper floors)

Remarks, if any:

V. ECONOMICS(please specify the amount in local currencies and provide the equivalents in US dollars. Specify the dates and the rates of exchange

in US dollars at the time.)

Amount in Amount in Exchange Rate Date

Local Currency US dollars

A. Total Site Area N. A. N. A.

B. Cost of Land N. A. N. A.

C. Analysis of Actual Cost N. A. N. A.

1. Infrastructure

2. Labour

3. Materials

4. Landscaping

5. Professional Fee

6. Other

D. Total Actual Costs 3,500,000.00 958,055.00 1MYR=0.27373USD 22-Sep-06

(without land) (Contract value)

E. Actual Costs 2,743.00 750.84 1MYR=0.27373USD 22-Sep-06

(per sq. meter) (Cost inclusive of furniture and fittings)

Remarks, if any, on costs:

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VI. PROJECTS DESCRIPTION

The first sketches for the scheme sited on the reeds lined water edge is informed by the rustic tin mine landscapes of by-gone years. Images of tin mining landscapes are powerful and succinct in the memory of the nation. The iconographic representation of the tin industry is the surreal dredging machine that is a conglomeration of sheds, booms, cables and buckets. Its accompaniment of buildings is other “sheds” which are pump houses and the gracefully skeletal “palong”. There is an inevitably efficient evolution in the forms and functions of these rudimentary but enticing structures and they are essentially simple and effective in their response to the climate and usage.

We were interested in the adaptable nature of these mining structures. They are able to mutate to the needs of the mining industry and we became curious about the possibility of applying this characteristic in our design. Addressing the climate is first and foremost on our agenda, and the high roofs, vernacular timber screens and tropical plants represented fragmented solutions to the tropical caricature. The building section was then setup to invite natural breeze and filtered light, hence the generous apertures at both ends of the chalet. When large apertures are created they inversely have to be “closed up” to be protected from the ubiquitous tropical thunderstorms. The screens and planting behave as foils to retard the rainwater as it is blown.

Climatic ideas were transformed into spatial compositions that are manifested in the water edge balcony and garden courtyard and open-air bathrooms. The project thus became accessible as a three dimensional climatic idea; in this instance, the tropical room become synonymous with the tropical skin.

The chalets are also made of simple metal roofing sheets, brick and plaster, and sustainable local Malaysian hardwoods. These finishes are collated as a palate of materials that is sympathetic to the essence of the indigenous shelter.

The reception building was also designed with the simplest of intent. Relieved of the need to have a controlled environment (air-conditioning), the idea of the adaptable shed and physiognomy of the building is truer to the ethos of the tin mining hut. Minimal and expressed steel structures, metal roof and acrylic skins were adopted in the design that is manifestedly transient and flexible.

The sun and the rain are distinct tropical elements and the manner of the assembly of parts to enjoy these elements in the building is describing nature in an architecture. We composed the details to celebrate moments of changes in the weather through a day. Water connects sky and lake via the collection and disposition of rain that is channeled through the building. In this journey the rain also instigates a collage of reflections in the rain soaked timber floor. The rain is ultimately admired for its graphic touches on the surface of the lake; hence the symphony of the senses of space through structure sound and texture. Tall and wild reeds and majestic rain trees become the other finishes and details to the idea.

The fundamental ideas invested in this group of buildings are being revisited and renewed in other forms and experiences in the next phase of “sheds” that is being contemplated. Our intent is to remain true to the attitude of the shed but to move the senses to other experiences with the help of the sun, wind and rain.

VII. MATERIALS, STRUCTURE AND CONSTRUCTION

R.C. frame, masonry walls, timber panels, steel roof trusses and steel roofing sheets.

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II C. PROJECT AFFILIATES / CONSULTANTS

SRI DAMAI AT CLEARWATER

Role Name & Address Tel. No. Fax No.

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER SL Chan Consultant + 605 - 548 5092 + 605 - 547 5033

25 Jalan Sri Kepayang, Fairpark31400 IpohPerak Darul Ridzuan

Structural Engineer Ir. Chan Swee Loon

MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL Zath Perunding Sdn Bhd + 605 - 255 8077 + 605 - 254 0980ENGINEER 6 Hala Datoh 1, Jalan Datoh

30000 IpohPerak Darul Ridzuan

Mechanical & Electrical Engineer En. Abdul Manan Abdul Raof

PROJECT MANAGER Pembinaan Teknikhas Sdn Bhd + 605 - 253 1330 + 605 - 255 1505& CONTRACTOR + 605 - 242 0779 16 Jalan Raja Dihilir (Jalan Tambun)

30350 IpohPerak Darul Ridzuan

Person to Contact Mr. Koh Tse Ming

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Document F 3220.MAL

No. Description Remarks

1 Architect's Record

2 Two main A-3 presentation panels

3 20 digital images on CD with thumbnail print

4 Publication - Architecture Asia June 2004, ARCASIA abstract

5 Publication - New Waves from Southeast Asia, November 2005, A+U abstract

6 Eight A-3 drawings

7 Company CV

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MATERIALS IDENTIFICATION FORMProvide a full list of all material being submitted

Document G 3220.MAL

No. Description Photographer Date

1 aerial view - Clearwater Sanctuary Clearwater Sanctuary Golf Management Bhd

2 chalet bathroom Richard Se April 2004

3 chalet front view 1 Richard Se April 2004

4 chalet front view 2 Richard Se April 2004

5 chalet interior 1 - Lake view from chalet bedroom Richard Se April 2004

6 chalet interior 2 - Chalet bedroom view from balcony Richard Se April 2004

7 chalet lake view 1- Lakeside view of chalet Richard Se April 2004

8 chalet lake view 2 - Water edge balconies Richard Se April 2004

9 clearwater rainscape - Chalet gargoyle Chris Wong April 2005

10 overall -View from north west lake Richard Se April 2004

11 reception interior Chris Wong January 2000

12 reception roof - Steel column capitals Chris Wong January 2000

13 reception view 1 Richard Se April 2004

14 reception view 2 Richard Se April 2004

15 reception view 3 Chris Wong January 2000

16 reception walkway Chris Wong January 2000

17 suite bath exterior - private waterscape Chris Wong January 2000

18 suite bathroom - Suite bathroom opens onto private waterscapes Richard Se April 2004

19 suite bedroom - Lake view from suite bedroom Richard Se April 2004

20 tin mine - Tin dredge, pump house and palong (abstracted from Landscapes : photographic study of tin mine landscapes) O Don Eric Peris 1980

IMAGES IDENTIFICATION FORMList each digital image (or photograph or slide) below, and specify the name of the photographer and the date of photography. In thespace designated "Description", provide a description of the image in English or in French. Also specify any copyright restriction, if any.You may substitute this form with your own as long as the required information is included.