ZLG Design founders Susanne Zeidler and Huat Lim’s wabi-sabi home in Wangsa Ukay, Kuala Lumpur, embraces nature
An architect’s own home is always fascinating to visit as it often offers an insight into his design ethos. The home of not one but two architects, namely ZLG Design founders Susanne Zeidler and Huat Lim, in Wangsa Ukay, Kuala Lumpur, represents their personalities and design beliefs, and is a curation of the objects and art collected through the years.
Partners in work and life, the couple bought the link house designed by T.R.Hamzah and Yeang in the ’80s when they returned to Malaysia in 1993. “An architect friend showed us the property, which was then only accessible via one steep road. But the road was lined with pine trees, which already impressed us a lot and reminded us of the tree-lined allées in France and Italy”, recalls Zeidler.
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“We were looking for an affordable house near the city centre but surrounded by nature and found this house, elevated on a slope, overlooking a valley with trees and jungle. We saw the house’s potential, enlarging the ground floor for a live-in maid and demolishing all non-supporting walls to create a loft-like space over two levels above the ground floor. We made the first-floor ‘semi public’ and the second floor a private sleeping area.”
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