Nara Village Homes

Nara Village Homes, Gamuda Gardens

NARA Village Homes is a gated and guarded landed strata community consisting of 120 units of typical 22 x 80 feet 2 storey terrace houses situated in Gamuda Gardens, Rawang. The township planning is divided into four quadrants of terrace houses, with a 100 feet wide central linear park at the east west axis.  

The internal layout puts a great emphasis on open plan layout with natural cross ventilation, views and natural lights. The Flexible Room on the ground floor is designed with a large glaze sliding door fronting both the Living/Dining area and the rear Garden, which improved the conventional long and narrow terrace house spatial quality with more external views, air and light with more ambiguity space interpretation.

The first-floor internal layout emphasizes the similar idea with each unit having a slice cut at the first-floor front edge to improve the unconducive central Family area spatial quality with larger window opening for enhanced view, light and ventilation.

A series of gable roof portal frame concepts enveloped the carved units in pairs to break the illusion of narrow width terrace house. Dark grey matt steel material on the roof covering and wall cladding further articulated the different types of roofs and forms. It also provides seamless detailing between roof and wall and flexibility to suit the different types of roof configurations. This advertently breaks the conventional terrace house continuous monotonous repetitive rectangular block form.

Each of the terrace house façade further differentiates with planes and geometric volume insert and protrudes into the gable roof portal frame. The varieties and unique individuality of each terrace house break away from the norm of repetitive terrace house design.  Glass and face brick material expressing different texture and color but at same time complement the steel matt grey main base material.

 The conventional terrace house typology has been illusion into a series of distinctive single unit house alternating in between creating a dynamic and interesting Village Homes streetscape fronting the central linear garden.