Dog Concrete House, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Architect: Kevin Low, 2012.

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Three storey house. Originally intended as a house of sharp lines and clean finishes, a sad comedy of errors left the project with a concrete structure so badly formed, an entirely new concept for its being had to be figured out. And the dogconcrete house was born. To effect savings precipitated by construction inaccuracy, the idea of leaving exterior walls without render began the narrative of dogconcrete: the offending casts and selected walls became a raw shell which cocooned the glazed surfaces and painted walls of its public face. The house relies on the paradigm of shock contrast to have unforgivable contracting work for aesthetics: working with unfinish as hip, and ugly as character-filled, the simply awful ceiling slabs and butt-ugly outer wall of the house were a stab at finding beauty in the beast.