Interior Urbanism
Interior urbanism was a design and a research
We accomplished at California College of The Arts during the year of San Drancisco has become emblematic of the difficulties of managing rapid urban growth in a cultrue entrenched in nimbyism.
Soft Edge | Jakarta, INA
Designed to incorporate curvature to all of the 90 degree angle throughout the living space.
The existing elongated layout separates living room and dining room with a long hallway, it makes certain areas feel dark and cramped. Through opening up the kids’ bedrooms and the kitchen area, it maximizes the amount of natural light into the interior space, resolving the problems of insufficient natural light in hallway and narrow workspace in kitchen area.
Soft Edge is designed for a newlywed couple; their brief is to have an area that is able to cater for different purposes. By demolishing the wall between two kids’ bedrooms, a flexible space is created for work space and gym area. In the future with the expansion in the family, the common space could be a recreational area for their kids in day time with a pocket door to transform the common space into two sleeping areas at night.
The concept of Soft Edge is introduced to incorporate curvature to all of the 90-degree angle throughout the living space, where a continuous curve connects living space at one end to the dining space at another end. Featuring wooden elements to highlight the continuity of the extended surfaces, creating a warm and welcoming ambience.
Upon entering the master bedroom through the wooden camouflage door, a spacious space is presented without boundaries between bathroom and the bedroom, maximizing the space in master bedroom with a wall of wardrobe behind the bed to provide sufficient storage. With the concealed fold-up make up vanity, the counter space could transform into a study table depending on the needs.
Residential
200 m²
Built
Jakarta, Indonesia
2020
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Porosity From Above | Jakarta, INA
Our client visioned a healthy and an open space setting for his workspace.
when we had our first site visit, we noticed that the existing space is very narrow. The challenge is to maximize quality space within such a compact lot.
Porosity From Above uses the form; half-arc as an architectural order to form a lightwell, allowing an additional volume and a reflection of diffused light + air ventilation to the interior space.
Office
240 m²
Built
Jakarta, Indonesia
2021
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The Ribbon | Jakarta, INA
The Ribbon is a renovation project located in Regatta apartment, Jakarta Indonesia, which is known as the clusters of buildings by the sea that manifest sailing yachts.
The challenge is to transform the impersonal and cold space into a cozy ambiance. While accommodating lots of storage for the newly married couple. This ambiance was translated by the earthy color palette, a use of organic elements to make the space natural with clean lines in furnishings as the final emphasis.
The design features a beauty of oak grain through its pattern and texture. Wrapping a continuous undulated surface from the living room to the kitchen area like a ribbon. This helps better transition movement for each space. As the undulated surface wrapping through, it creates spaces that are cut with white boxes, which provide areas for reading nook and pantry. The lower parts of the ribbon are slightly lifted, the ceilings are partly cut, and both are lit by LEDs. Therefore, they become a field of ambient lighting, forming an atmospheric element throughout the apartment.
Photograped by Ricky Adrian
Residential
210 m²
Completed
Jakarta, Indonesia
2019
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STRATEGIC OPENNESS | Jakarta, INA
In Pantai Indah Kapuk neighborhood, land lots are divided in a narrow fashion that houses with typical conventional yard have difficult access to natural ventilation, a separation of living space and garden.
We offer a new type of urban typology – strategically placing volumes and carving voids in the dedicated lot. This allows living spaces to integrate with intimate inner courtyards and terraces. Cross ventilation in this humid condition is encouraged simply with openings onto 2 parallel sides. The house has pleasant access to natural lights, allowing a comfortable degree of illumination almost without any active interior lighting during the day.
Residential
1,100 m²
Site Preparation
Jakarta, Indonesia
2019
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NORU | Jakarta, INA
In Jakarta, buildings are getting taller and the human population is rapidly increasing.
But there is less development of green space compare to its cityscape. Results in poor air quality which brings unhealthy lifestyle to the citizens. The vision of the project is to introduce a role model that gives a new opportunity for any existing buildings in Jakarta to develop an elevated rooftop garden that brings the natural elements back to the city. The nature that provides an ecosystem to help clean air pollution. And this is exactly what we did for Noru, a rooftop lounge garden .
The design embraces the panoramic skyline by using overlapping- overhead planes. Which act as a shelter from the rain and protecting the over exposure during the day. While the different elevations still allow daylight to bounce into the semi-outdoor space. The topographical platforms compromise the aesthetic appearance of the overhead planes, but also help to define seating typologies. Together with natural stone, wood, plants, and big sized trees over custom planters to complete the elevated garden as a whole.
Commercial
300 m²
Built
Jakarta, Indonesia
2020
International Interior Design Award 2020 at Architecture Press Release
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Multikom | Palembang, INA
Multikom is one of the most competitive distributor of gadgets in Palembang, Indonesia. The structural objective is to house showrooms and private offices.
The programmatic distribution is deployed sectionally. Parking is located in the first floor for easy access. The second and third floor is for the showrooms, where streetscape is extended to the interior by an undulating surface that serves as a connector. This transitions between exterior and interior is treated in a natural and cohesive. Material usage is considered for both the outside and inside as one. Giving leverage for, the private offices on the top floor from the loud noises off the busy street.
The architecture focuses in developing a small scale building that have freedom to expand further and to merge with the neighboring buildings.Instead of building a monolithic 5 stories tower, the new structure is a series of stacked slanted boxes, stepping to the 5th story like a terrace, creating a friendly appearance from the street.
This typology allows the passage of unobstructed natural daylight to the interior space. The stepping effect results in genuine outdoor spaces, allowing office workers to engage with the urban gardens. As the volume is stepping up, they are sliced both horizontally & vertically and equipped with a translucent glass, resulting in a 3 separated structure appearance from the outside, but connected internally.
Mixed-Use (Showroom & Office)
1,200 m²
Site Preparation
Palembang, Indonesia
2020
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Merdeka | Jakarta, INA
Merdeka is a semi-outdoor space which design is rooted from their brand identity.
The core values includes: community, local pride, and inspirational. The idea of being collective is deployed in the multifunctional piece of furniture that integrates spaces for lounging, working places, drinking, eating, and planting. The components of the project are locally made. Featuring rattan chairs, local bricks, and local terrazzo that will be casted on site without any joints. The shape of furniture is rather light hearted and fun to spark exciting conversations, together with raising fun facts and questions in a manner that is inclusive and non-imposing.
Commercial
200 m²
Completed
Jakarta, Indonesia
2019
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PAPA & MAMA BISTRO AND COFFEE | Jakarta, INA
The new Papa & Mama Bistro and Coffee outlet is located in a new developed area as an extension of Pantai Indah Kapuk, where people often travel to this new area to expose to outdoor for urban getaway.
Upon entering, visitors are welcomed by a masculine atmosphere with darker tone material and wood paneling to accentuate the color tone and aesthetic of pastries and cakes. A bold character of an interior space that direct focuses to the delicacies of the pastries, where interior design acts as a canvas for their products.
The ground floor is catered for bakery and coffee with the “Grab and Go” concept, a granite bench is designed as a waiting area for a quick stopover for customers. Nearby the entrance is rows of display shelving connected to the floor and ceiling shadowing to the subtle textured ribbed wall in the background. Contrasting with a continuous curve and textured material to highlight the bar as the centerpiece extending as a railing function for the stairs leading customers to the second floor seating area.
With the concept of urban getaway, the second floor comforts visitors with a calming atmosphere through natural elements of timber, pebbles and plants featuring with warm lighting. Through introducing two seating types in the second floor, it allows options of the occupancy duration with the level of comfortability.
Commercial
120 m²
Built
Jakarta, Indonesia
2021
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Courtyard House | Jakarta, INA
The challenge when designing the Courtyard House was to combine a retirement space and co-living.
The objective is to separate these two program sectionally and provide an autonomous entrance. The two is then connected internally by a central courtyard, to allow better privacy, daylight penetration and air movement within the home as a substitution of air conditioning.
Residential
800 m²
Site Preparation
Jakarta, Indonesia
2019
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