An ongoing project to photograph housing in the suburbs of Malaysia that I regularly visit.
Much of the housing that I have photographed comes from an expansion of the suburbs following independence in 1957. These are residential areas that established in the years where the country was emerging from it colonial past and transforming into the Malaysia of today. Suburban Malaysia is car-centric and the space given over to parking the car is often disproportionate to the house. Before the current and extensive use of ‘air-con’, passive air circulation in older properties comes through gaps, often beautifully integrated with the design. Bungalows with large gardens used to be a feature of these suburbs although many detached single-storey buildings have been extended with some unoccupied for long periods, awaiting renovation or demolition.
