Lexis Hibiscus
Lexis Hibiscus project is located some 7 km from Port Dickson at the idyllic beachfront of Pasir Panjang, off the Port Dickson – Malacca old trunk road.
It is a hospitality resort project developed by The Kuala Lumpur Metro Group, who prides themselves with “Hospitality as their Passion”. The resort comprises of a 13 storey landside facilities, housing 117 luxury suites with individual swimming pools and 522 water chalets. It boast of the most number of swimming pools in a resort in Malaysia.
Our design vision for this project is to offer an innovative idea of floating chalets that stretches out overwater into the open shoreline. The modern architecture employed is reflective of our intended sustainable programme to be incorporated into this project with neutral white colour palettes blending in beautifully with the blue seas.
Conceptually it begins with our national flower the Hibiscus where a stalk of the flower extracted out to form a stylized leaf connected to the five petals with the extended stamens. Thus the floral shaped is formed to attach the water chalets which forms the Hibiscus.
The landside 13 storey building anchors the whole composition with its convex plan form echoing the meandering natural shoreline formation at the project location. The facilities components are housed on the lower floors of the building with the luxury suites on the successive floors offering expansive views out to sea.
Being located on the shoreline and subject to the strong prevailing winds, the roofs design of the main building and water chalets are specially design to be curved shallow barrel roofs. The curved roof employed will naturally allow the strong prevailing winds to deflects upwards drawing warm air to pass through thereby contributing to reduce the ambient temperatures at the water chalets.
The neutral white colour choice of the curved roofs was made carefully to take advantage of the none heat absorbent quality to incorporate the sustainable elements from our roof material used.
The orientation of the landside building in the east-west direction theoretically should help to reduce heat built up through cross ventilation that cools the air immediately around the building where it can indirectly help to improve the general level of comfort and at the same time contribute to lower the running costs of the building.
Innovative elements employed for the building waste management system was the syhfonic pumping system to bring the domestic sanitary waste to the land base waste treatment plant where it is treated to ensure environmentally safe practice.
We believe the Lexis Hibiscus truly exemplifies the innovation in designs and functions that pays tribute to modern architecture while at the same time contributing to improving the general built environment offering a very unique rejuvenating experience for any visitors.
Project Information
Malaysia
Ultra Ultimate Grey
Completed
2016
BlueScope Architectural Award 2024 – Malaysia – Lasting Beauty of Colorbond Steel (Commendation)
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