architectures

September 29 2023

Lakeside Pagoda Retreat

vinthengono Architecture architectures, building, concept, design, house

Lakeside Pagoda Retreat | Jakarta, IND

Nestled amidst a verdant curtain of mature trees and cradled between two lakes, this 1115 m2 site remains concealed from view by the road.

Gentle breeze graces the surroundings, further enhancing the location’s unique identity. The vision for this project was to craft an exclusive entertainment retreat, enabling the owner to fully immerse themselves in the tropical surroundings and be revitalized by the nearby water bodies. The ambiance of water ripples, the interplay of light on its surface, the surrounding humidity, and the warmth provide the perfect canvas for seamlessly blending nature with living spaces, reimagining the fusion of gardens and interiors.

To embrace the landscape and the surrounding blue lake, the design departs from conventional home planning. The first level accommodates private bedrooms, while the second level is reserved for entertainment and public spaces. Encased within a floating pagoda, the entertainment areas offer breathtaking views of an expansive pool and a reflective pond, enhancing the feeling of serene seclusion and privacy while framing the landscape. This design choice extends the potential for visual depth and distance, maximizing the elevated panoramic views. A grand spiral staircase in the entrance foyer naturally guides visitors to the floating
pagoda above.

On the ground floor, a straight pathway corridor gradually unveils an ever-shifting lakeside panorama. As visitors progress along this path, they encounter secluded bedrooms at each end, complemented by a koi pond and a tranquil indoor Zen garden. In homage to water’s pivotal role within the residence, a skylight pierces through the swimming pool above, illuminating the outdoor gathering area. The sunlight creates a mesmerizing theatrical play of light, its brilliance and motion constantly transformed by the fluid, sinuous patterns of refracted rays dancing through the water. Guests are free to explore this setting, discovering and savouring spots that resonate with their comfort and preference.

Type

Residential

Area

1115 m²

Status

In-Construction

Location

Jakarta, Indonesia

Year

2023

May 7 2023

Light Box in Between

vinthengono Architecture architectures, ciranjang, commercial, cultural, kelvinthengono, kthengono

Light Box in Between | Jakarta, INA

Located in a bustling commercial district in South Jakarta, Indonesia, Light Box in Between is a three-floors-high commercial building.

Light Box in Between is a three-story building in the commercially robust area of South Jakarta, Indonesia. A strategic location that urges for a design that seeks great flexibility and openness, where the spaces could host any possible retail scenarios to attract distinct tenants to come in.

The project aims to create a fully integrated architecture with the current existing conditions that maximizes the lot’s buildable area, as well as maintaining a captivating architectural standard inside and out. For this purpose, we designed a steel mass that is lifted and clamped between two distinguished concrete service core. The front core serves as vertical circulations, and the back core accommodates for back-end service programs such as: the kitchen, storage, and bathrooms.

One of the project’s most distinctive feature is a cantilevered volume floating above as a roof for the 1st floor and a terrace for the 3rd floor. The cantilevered mass is cladded with a double skin system of poly carbonate material with an illuminating strip of light fitted in-between. Combining the frosting property of the skin system & the strip lighting, they create a shadowing silhouettes of people or objects moving within the space. Casting a dynamic and intriguing “wayang” performance from the street level at night that shrouds the building’s exterior.

To further emphasize cantilevered storefront, the 1^st & 3^rd floor is enclosed within a frameless glass for a complete transparency that blurs the boundary between indoor & outdoor. Nested underneath is a continuous urban carpet that connects the streets to the 1st level of the building, designated as an FnB business. This commercial building is accommodated with a semi-basement level as an extension parking to the ground level.

Type

Commercial

Area

785 m²

Status

Completed

Location

Jakarta, Indonesia

Year

2023

January 31 2023

The Rice Barn House

vinthengono Architecture architectures, bintaro, concept, house, residential

The Rice Barn House | Tangerang, INA

The Rice Barn House design is largely driven by responding to the site’s environmental condition and by celebrating the inherited traditional local construction methodology.

Given a compact lot and a brief by the client to have sufficient programs in the house, our approach seeks to fuse Indonesia’s vernacular architecture with contemporary building technology to accommodate today’s living lifestyle. Thus, we incorporated vernacularism by using elements from lumbung padi (Indonesian Rice Barn), synthetized with modern material selections.

The form of the house was inspired by lumbung padi whose structure is built on 4 columns with a ground floor slab raised 2m above ground. Characterized by two levels, the traditional barn house is usually built with contrasting spatial qualities – ground level as an open-sided pavilion and first level as an enclosed private space. We associated these spatial qualities with living program placements.

The gambrel roof design from lumbung padi is modified into a trapezoid prism holding private programs such as bedrooms and private bathrooms. The roof of the prism is punctured with a circular skylight at the center, and the trapezoid’s slanted walls are punctured with window openings to supply natural light, and allow cross-and-stack ventilation throughout the private quarters.

Nested underneath is an open plan living room that is connected by a central spiral staircase. The living room is enveloped with frameless bi-fold doors that blur the outdoor-to-indoor boundary. Surrounded by continuous terraces and vegetation, the living room mimics the openness of the pavilion from lumbung padi, allowing as much natural wind flow to pass through from all sides. With the shifting of lifestyle nowadays, the access to natural ventilation is considered to be a significant element in quality of life, which bolster the openness of pavilion spatial quality.

All other supporting programs are clustered on the ground level to serve the needs of the living programs on the levels above. The modernization of lumbung padi traditional house is achieved through applying selection of modern building technologies and materiality that accommodates today’s lifestyle.

Type

Residential

Area

250 m²

Status

Built

Location

Tangerang, Indonesia

Year

2022

Publication

November 23 2019

The Ribbon

vinthengono Architecture apartment, architectures, interior design, kelvinthengono, residential, ribbon, The Ribbon

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

Type

Residential

Area

210 m²

Status

Completed

Location

Jakarta, Indonesia

Year

2019

October 22 2019

Strategic Openness

vinthengono Architecture architectures, concept, design, open, residential, strategic

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.

Type

Residential

Area

1,100 m²

Status

Under Construction

Location

Jakarta, Indonesia

Year

2019

August 23 2019

Multikom

vinthengono Architecture architectures, commercial, design, kelvinthengono, kthengono, thengono, workplace

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.

Type

Mixed-Use (Showroom & Office)

Area

1,200 m²

Status

Site Preparation

Location

Palembang, Indonesia

Year

2020

June 23 2019

Papa & Mama Bistro and Coffee

vinthengono Architecture architectures, building, coffee, coffeeshop, commercial, design

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.

Type

Commercial

Area

120 m²

Status

Built

Location

Jakarta, Indonesia

Year

2021

April 22 2019

Co-Office

vinthengono Architecture architectures, co-office, co-working, design, office, space, workplace

CO-OFFICE | Jakarta, INA

Co-Office is designed to allow a flexible place for collaboration while allowing each expertise to maintain their own privacy at the designated space.

The design consists of a minimalist palette. Charcoal, white and subtle wood elements, features local artworks and custom elements. The warmth of wood, together with the darker shade of wall paint wrap the place and make it feels more cozy.

The common space at the entrance, with a high ceiling and painted neutral for a spacious ambiance. Reception to welcome visitors is substituted with a comfortable sofa. With plants and an elegant painting by local artist. The pantry area on the other side is equipped with a wooden island for tenants to hang out at their break time.

The micro units on the other hand, line the outermost perimeter. They are set with a drop ceiling, adjusting the height to the highest window frame as a datum to take an advantage of natural daylight with an unobstructed view towards Java sea and urban skyline. For a visual knitting and acoustic privacy, insulated walls along with translucent tempered glass partitions are set. Giving spatial continuity for each one and as a whole.

Photographed by Mario Wibowo

Type

Office

Area

120 m²

Status

Completed

Location

Jakarta, Indonesia

Year

2019

Award

Award Winner at International Property Awards 2020-2021

September 23 2016

Selective Fluidity

vinthengono Architecture architectures, building, commercial, cultural, kelvinthengono, workplace

SELECTIVE FLUIDITY | San Francisco, CA

Driven by a complex form that produces a performative, curvilinear geometry — producing a supple shape that is able to respond equally to the selected site, the program, and a particular maker culture centered around it.

Organic forms can often generate residual or left over spaces.

Skateboarding has a very similar mutual ethic, an ethic of seeking of unintentional moment where random things started to be eligible for the skateboarders, reconstructing the idea of form and the shape of the rider. They are unlike the typical pedestrian; they inhabit in a different way. He or she is alive to the possibility of space, not in its totality, as an architect would be. But as a collection of tactile surfaces to be jumped on, grinded, and conquered.

Conventional Architecture is often a product of extruded boxes, producing monotonous space. This project introduces a new typology for maker space – a building that creates an iconic identity that contributes urbanistically as part of the surrounding fabric. The building form turns the idea of a conventional atrium upside down, with a volumetric perturbation that brings the dynamics of daylight and air through the heart of the building. The end form accommodates the hybridized program of skateboard manufacture plus skateboard park in one facility. As such, the building’s space and form synthesizes together both introverted and extroverted spatial conditions. Housing the makers, the riders and the visitors to experience this dynamic interplay.

Type

Mixed-Use (Skateboard center)

Area

2,500 m²

Status

Idea

Location

San Francisco, California

Year

2019

Award

AIAS Design Excellence Honor Award 2016

January 23 2016

Eternal Conversion

vinthengono Architecture architectures, building, concept, conversion, eternal, eternalconversion, residential

ETERNAL CONVERSION |

San Francisco, CA

The project explores San Francisco’s eastern waterfront as a site for students and seniors housing development.

Realizing a fluctuation in users, programs, activities: gentrification is affecting the rising of real estate value. At the same time, multi-generations families are not able to accommodate a permanent space in the city.

Eternal Conversion seeks to give solutions in a new type of housing that’s flexible to allow accommodation for the cycle of life with a great social learning community.

Type

Residential

Area

3000 m²

Status

Idea

Location

San Francisco, California

Year

2016