Asia School of Business

The Asia School of Business (ASB) was created through a partnership of Bank Negra Malaysia and the MIT Sloan School of Management. The school was established to address the growing business opportunities within Southeast Asia and the emerging world, ASB’s innovative Action Learning curriculum immerses students in multicultural business environments in Asia and around the globe.

The iconic new campus takes maximum advantage of its hillside site in central Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s capital city. Inspired by the traditional Malaysian “Kampung” (village), the academic building and residential village are organized along a curving landscaped path protected by covered walkways which also connect to the adjacent National Financial Center.

The Academic building’s classrooms, makerspaces, dining, faculty offices, and amphitheater activate the five-level atrium. Teaching spaces are reimagined as flexible, loft-like labs, functioning as adaptable learning environments for experimentation and collaboration. The makerspaces feature cutting-edge technology to serve the evolving, high tech demands of business today.

The design of the academic building’s exterior metal and glass panels are inspired by the artistic heritage of Malaysian Songket textile patterns, whose geometries are reinterpreted using parametric design and digital CNC manufacturing. Its curving roof with clerestory and skylights temper the tropical sun and filter daylight.