Office Buildings Campus-Style

Status: Completion 2026

The design of Jotun Headquarters will be on innovative architecture, particularly the facade fins as a significant design element. These facade fins serve multiple purposes: they are an aesthetic feature, create dynamic visual interest, and have practical applications in terms of solar shading and energy efficiency. This architectural feature is especially relevant in Malaysia's tropical climate, where managing sunlight and heat gain is crucial for building sustainability and occupant comfort.

Facade fins can be designed in various materials, shapes, and orientations to optimize sunlight control, enhance natural ventilation, and contribute to the building's overall energy performance. In the context of an R&D industrial project like the Jotun HQ, integrating such architectural elements aligns with the innovative and forward-thinking ethos typical of research and development facilities.

Client : PKNS
The Selangor State Development Corporation’s or “Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor” (PKNS) aspiration is to build an iconic corporate headquarter to reflect the dynamism of PKNS. The new, multi award winning office complex - PKNS HQ- portrays Selangor’s cultural identity, incorporated with the latest trend of sustainable architecture. The key is to amalgamate the building with the site context to achieve an environmentally responsive, energy efficient and sustainable architecture. Full integration with surrounding landscape features is necessary to compliment the site setting.

The building straddles on a 4.6 acre site in the midst of Shah Alam’s recreational area near Tasik Tengah, sited on the fringe of a man-made lake, in the middle of Shah Alam’s CBD. PKNS HQ is made from an array of 4 office blocks ranging from 4 to 8 storeys in height, sheltering beneath a massive, sweeping landscaped roof. The administrative complex is an intertwine of public, semi-public and private spaces with emphasis on passive design. Introducing permeability and transparency, the interstice of each block is a courtyard, lit from above by louvered skylights installed into the green roof.

A structure growing from the ground, it camouflages itself with the natural site context. The area displaced by the built-up of the building is thus reclaimed and returned to the public realm as an elevated green park. Accessible to all, the over sailing green roof ramps up from the ground to the top of the office building, taking in serene views of the surrounding environment. Altogether, the development incorporates business and leisure for both the occupants and the public. An insignia of green building, the double platinum, green certified corporate headquarter is set to be a prominent venue where the public can congregate whilst enjoying views of the city.

Client : Air Asia Berhad
The brief was for an office building integrating all operational and administrative functions of Air Asia with supporting the conference and recreational facilities for staff and visitors. Covering an area of approximately 4.8 acres, the project site is located within the boundaries of the Low-Cost Carrier Terminal of Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2. Site restrictions include limited access via an elevated roadway that cuts into the buildable extent of the lot. A height restriction of 27m applies to the building, from the requirement that there be unobstructed visibility from the control tower directly adjacent to the building. Furthermore, the longer sides of the site are orientated along the east-west axis, maximizing the building's sun exposure.  

Given these conditions, the energy performance of the building became a driving factor in the design. It was important that the corporate identity of Air Asia and the concept of 'one big happy family' be incorporated into the design as well. The building is a rectangular open plan designed around light-filled atriums that impart an invisible order to the open floor plan. Bridges connect different departments across the atrium spaces.

A multi-purpose chilled beam system is employed throughout the building, replacing a conventional A/C system with substantial savings in energy consumption. Openings are reduced to control the energy consumption of the building and where openings exist around the atrium, double-glazing which has better insulative properties than normal glass is used. These glazed areas are further buffered from excessive heat gain via a green planting screen that sits outside the glazed area. Foliage from the planting screen absorbs direct solar heat gain whilst diffusing light entering the building. Green walls within the building improve air quality and soften the interiors of the building.

Client : Digi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd
The Digi corporate headquarters is a low-rise complex of 320,000sf comprising 4 stories of offices, meeting rooms, an auditorium, a Call Centre, staff training rooms, warehouses, car parks, cafeteria and various staff amenities within a lush 6.5 acres site. This project brings together 1,300 Digi employees under one roof for the first time.

The visitor is greeted by a lofty porte cochere of steel columns and glass screens. The entrance is a soaring 4 storey atrium, which opens up into a perspective extending all the way to the green natural rock outcrop beyond. Bridges pierce the soaring void. Slender concrete and steel columns rise from the ground and terminate in a wooden canopy and a glazed louvered skylight—sufficient to shelter the atrium from the elements, yet bringing in generous daylight.

The architectural language is that of openness, total transparency, an engagement of the outdoors; an embodiment of Digi's culture of pushing boundaries and their lateral thinking approach to solving problems.