Designing for Tropical Rain

Every house we design begins by drawing the rainfall — its volume, its angle, its acoustic. The Klang Valley receives 2,500 millimetres a year, and most of it arrives between four and seven in the evening as a curtain.

This essay walks through three details we use on every residential project: the deep eave, the copper drip edge, and the lime-washed wall that takes the splash without staining.