Crazy Rich Asians house represents region's changing taste, says architect
The real-life counterparts of the extravagantly wealthy characters in new movie Crazy Rich Asians are "very interested in modern architecture", says the architect of a contemporary home featured in the film.
Private clients in the economic powerhouses of Southeast Asia have acquired a taste for more minimal design that has fuelled a stylistic shift, said architect Stephanie Maignan of Toronto-based B+H Architects, who worked extensively in the region for over a decade.
The house she completed in the jungle outside Kuala Lumpur in 2014 ? which was recently used to film scenes for Crazy Rich Asians ? provides a perfect example of this, she told Dezeen in an exclusive interview.
"In that part of Asia, people are very interested in modern architecture and doing something to differentiate themselves," said Maignan. "Asia has just been going through this boom of development," she continued. "So the experience of working in an emerging economy is pretty exciting, because a lot of projects are aspirational and a lot of the clients are pretty forward-looking."
Depicted as the Singapore home of wealthy matriarch Eleanor Young in the movie, the Be-Landa residence staggers up a steeply sloped site as three volumes facing a forest reserve, with the upper two volumes lifted above the ground on stilts.
"We wanted to befriend this slope so we could keep this heavily forested, sloping lot and have a treetop feel to the house," said the arc...
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