This wild, architecture, and ethnic diversity is the backdrop for a futuristic yet traditional house that is as eclectic as KL itself. Parisian interior and Patrick Jouin and partner Sanjit Manku, a Kenyan-born Canadian architect, designed 32,000-square-foot residence and reception suites for three generations of a prominent Chinese-Malaysian family. (Jouin recently split his firm into two entities: Agence Jouin Manku, overseeing interiors and commissions, and Patrick Jouin ID, focused on Commanding a nearly 1-acre hillside perch in a posh inner suburb, the house tries to minimize—visually and functionally—the impact of a program that’s nothing
short of gargantuan.
