The Ruma is a five star global branded hotel and luxury serviced residence located in Kuala Lumpur City Centre area, Malaysia. A project by renowned developer Ireka, The Ruma comprises a 42-storey tower block, housing a 300-room boutique hotel and 200 units of serviced residences.
The development covers an almost one-acre site and is designed to comply with Malaysia’s Green Building Index (GBI) Gold standards, reducing the building’s overall impact on the environment and its surroundings. Occupants of the The Ruma will also benefit from the project’s location which is a walking distance to several key retail, commerce and tourist sites in the city.
AECOM was engaged to provide mechanical and electrical engineering, sustainability consultancy and GBI facilitator services. The hotel will be managed by Urban Resort Concepts, which also operates the international The PuLi hotel in Shanghai.
Located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur in leafy Jalan Bellamy, the Orchard Park site was once well known among the local community.
Set on a ridge, the steeply sloping site features distant views of Kuala Lumpur city to the south-west. The land was home to a number of colonial buildings that were slowly deteriorating under the tall remnants of a rainforest canopy. The park consisted of a creek that was polluted and flowed with a marginal to poor quality stream of water. The land was also used as a garbage tip and over time, the park became an open, derelict piece of land.
AECOM was engaged to provide landscape architecture services to inject life back into this park. Among others, the project aims to promote locally grown productive orchards; provide education on the different fruit tree species that made their way to Malaysia during early days of trade; promote urban gardening; showcase sustainable landscape design; and demonstrate the execution of the effective and well detailed design elements.