This is a 3-storey building with offices in one wing and a golf clubhouse in the other wing. The office is for Guthrie Property Development Holding Sdn. Bhd. (GPDH). The company’s business is focused in real estate development. The nautical analogy is inescapable in a masthead building for a properly developer looking to develop a new sub-urban for the Malaysian capital. The building is intended to be a landmark building and to be the most prestigious building visible from the highway as visitors enter the site.

Placed on a prominent site on the edge of golf course and using 4,600 sq m of commercial space, the pavilion consists of 4 major programs:

• The Offices at west wing are for accommodating Guthrie subsidiary offices.
• The Golf Clubhouse at east wing is housing a public Golf Clubhouse with facilities of changing rooms, Pro-Shop and Caddy station on the Ground Floor. The cafe, golfers terrace and restaurant have views facing the golf course.
• The Core, which holding the common services for both wings such as toilets, mushola (prayer rooms) and mechanical-engineering plant room, riser ducts and chiller plant.
• The Roof, it is an independent structure, acting as an ‘umbrella’ over the building. The roof protects the building from the sun, reducing glare and air-conditioning load whilst providing a usable roof terrace overlooking the golf course on the north and east. The sunshades are located along the east and west face of the building to reduce heat again. The building is entirely glazed for maximum views out and natural lighting.

Between the two blocks are a slender service wing and three steel masts that support the 5 canopies, 2 large, inflated pillows and 3 single-membrane cones that protect the building from the sun, effectively reducing its energy consumption. All the blocks are aerodynamic and meticulously formed to guide the movement of the weather, and have the engineering finesse and aesthetic inventiveness that is usually presented by Ken Yeang.

The pavilion below the canopy has a reinforced concrete-frame structure with glass curtain walls and panel infill, all neatly executed, which embody the developer’s up-market ambitions, while the suspended canopies are a monumental gesture in the landscape, an enduring symbol of far-sightedness and imagination. The canopy structure is of pre-tensioned cable and pylon steel masts supporting an inflated pillow and canopy. Its primary goal is to create a physical presence to the locality and to signify its importance as a landmark. The canopy also serves as a second roof over the roof terrace to the pavilion below, providing shading while reducing solar radiation within the building, resulting in 66,283 kw/hr savings in energy consumption per annum.

The roofing system is shaped by 2 air-inflated membrane cushions, which are connected at their border to a tubular steel frame. The frame is supported in the interior by a steel skeleton. The cushion with the elongated shape is called cushion 1, whilst trapezoidal form is cushion 2. Both cushions are supported by hanger cables towards the tops of three tubular steel masts and by vertical stressing cables to the ground or at some places to the building. The cushions are connected to each other by four members. The portion between the 2 cushions is covered by three conical shaped single-layer membrane structures. The finishing uses tempered float glass and solid aluminium cladding, galvanised steel staircase, slate to floor, textured concrete on ground level, plaster and paint to walls, mineral fibreboard ceiling.

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