NO.A-01ABOUT USDESIGN, RESOLVED FOR MANUFACTURESCALENTS

We design things to be built. Products, components and modular systems are developed alongside how they will be manufactured, transported and assembled, not after.

Based in Kuala Lumpur and working with clients across Asia and North America, we work alongside manufacturers, fabricators and registered project professionals. Together we turn early ideas into designs that are ready for production.

Community Activation Trailer
FIG. 01 — COMMUNITY ACTIVATION TRAILER / SCALE: NTS
NO.A-02APPROACHHOW WE WORKSCALENTS
01

MANUFACTURING FIRST

We make production decisions early, while they are still cheap to change, not once a component reaches the factory floor.

02

DESIGNED TO BE ASSEMBLED

Every part is considered for how it is made, shipped and put together, from kit-of-parts thinking to final assembly.

03

CLEAR COMMUNICATION

Drawings, models and visuals that make design intent easy for clients, manufacturers and project teams to understand.

NO.A-03PEOPLEMEET THE FOUNDERSCALENTS
JJ Tan
FIG. 02 — JJ TAN, FOUNDER / SCALE: NTS

Haus of Techniques is led by JJ Tan, a designer based in Greater Kuala Lumpur. Since 2019, JJ has worked on design and project management across residential, hospitality and technically driven projects in North America and Asia. One of these is a cross-laminated timber (CLT) panel house in the Catskills, New York.

JJ started the studio to close the gap between design intent and how things are actually made, with a practice built on close collaboration with the people who fabricate and assemble the work.

KEY
1BASED IN
GREATER KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA
2PRACTICE
HAUS OF TECHNIQUES — FOUNDER
3WORKING SINCE
2019, NORTH AMERICA + ASIA
4FOCUS
DFMA, MODULAR + PANELIZED SYSTEMS
HAUS OF JJ PORTFOLIOCONTACT US
NO.A-04SITE PLANPLACES THAT SHAPED THE WORKSCALENTSNOTESTap a pin or step through the route.
Route, 1996 → todayTravelled: 264 flights · 27 countries · 818,330 km
READ THE FULL STORY
NO.A-05SCHEDULETHE PATH SO FARSCALENTS
  1. 2012–14APPRENTICESHIPErnie Yim Design Atelier, Hong Kong.
  2. 2013SUMMER SCHOOLArchitecture course, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York.
  3. 2014–2019EDUCATIONBachelor of Architecture, California College of the Arts, San Francisco.
  4. 2017–18INTERNSHIPEDG Interior Architecture + Design, San Francisco.
  5. 2018–2022PRACTICEAnderson Anderson Architecture, SF Bay Area — design intern to Project Manager; off-site and modular work including a CLT-panel house in the Catskills, NY.
  6. 2026STUDIOFounded Haus of Techniques in Greater Kuala Lumpur.