CKHO Architect

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A small-scale intervention along Raja Uda’s longest commercial street, Material Forest explores how architecture can introduce something different into a familiar suburban context. The project transforms an existing building into a curated material library, where materials sourced from different contexts are integrated directly into space and architecture.

The core challenge of the project was questioning how typically messy, raw construction materials could be organised, experienced, and presented beyond a conventional trading house or showroom. Rather than hiding them, the architecture frames materials as part of the spatial narrative, turning process, texture, and imperfection into design intent, turning MESSY INTO BEAUTY.

Material Forest received a PAM Awards 2025 – Showroom Category (Commendation Award).

Architect: CKHO Architect
Client: Buildnberg Sdn Bhd
Builder: Best Builder Sdn Bhd

CKHO Architect — “Always Different & Believe in Design Process Thinking”

Thanks again to PAM Northern Chapter for the kind invitation for a humble sharing with our local crowd here at home.

“MADE IN PENANG – Cultivating a Design Practice From the Periphery”
Co-sharing together with Moonshop Gallery , Penang.

Always meaningful to share some simple thoughts, and always with the same hope — to make our homeland a greater one.