Jakarta, Indonesia
2025
1755 m²
Residential
In-Construction
Architecture, Interior
Layered Residence Houses Numerous Facilities within Stacked Volumes
Set within Jakarta’s Widya Chandra neighborhood in the SCBD area, this residence was required to accommodate extensive facilities, including numerous bedrooms, a tennis court, a swimming pool, and a mini zoo. Despite the generous site, K-Thengono Design Studio needed to organize the program to preserve openness and views while maintaining privacy from the surrounding high-rises.
The site’s differing front and rear elevations are utilized to create a basement for the tennis court, leaving the ground plane free for gardens and living spaces. Above this raised platform, two parallel volumes are set apart: a front wing for guest amenities and a rear wing for entertainment programs.
Spanning across the two wings, a long bar volume contains the bedrooms. Rotated within the site, it directs the main suite toward views of the SCBD skyline. The volume is supported by 1.8-meter-deep beams and an upper bracing system that stabilizes its cantilevered edges. This allows for a 30-meter column-free span beneath, used as a communal area opening directly to the gardens.
A rectangular leisure block crowns the residence, intersected by a swimming pool positioned above the rotated bedroom bar. The pool is enclosed by a glazed roof, with skylights beneath filtering daylight into the interiors below. Vegetation around the outdoor areas provides privacy.
The material sequence establishes a hierarchy from heavy to light: granite and rammed earth define the ground level, concrete forms the bedroom bar, and steel completes the upper leisure block.
Together, these stacked and rotated volumes balance complex spatial requirements with landscaped openness, creating a residence shaped by programmatic strategy and structural clarity.