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This Ventblock house was designed by Kevin Mark Low with his small projects office located in 1 jalan tenggiri, Kuala lumpur 59100, Malaysia. The ventblock house was the second in a series of houses with a roof system based on cross ventilated insulation. A decision was made early to conceptually enclose some sort of garden space in the heart of the building, privacy being the issue.

The side facing walls were built from overburnt clay brick, hard but warm, punctured in parts by narrow windows. Thin concrete roofs characterize much of the shading on the lower level, with large glazed doors and window walls only on the inside faces of the protected garden. Cement vent block was used in this house for screening; this was to become the guiding character for the safari roof house.