kelvinthengono – K-Thengono Design Studio

May 7 2023

Light Box in Between

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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

November 23 2019

The Ribbon

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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

Type

Residential

Area

210 m²

Status

Completed

Location

Jakarta, Indonesia

Year

2019

August 23 2019

Multikom

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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.

Type

Mixed-Use (Showroom & Office)

Area

1,200 m²

Status

Site Preparation

Location

Palembang, Indonesia

Year

2020

September 23 2016

Selective Fluidity

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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

June 23 2016

Nest at scribe

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NEST AT SCRIBE | Sonoma, CA

Reemphasizing the local spirit of Scribe Winery city of Sonoma California, Nest at Scribe serves as a place for visitors to discover a new point of collective central destination that takes consideration of three-dimensional spatial network using grid organization.

To create engaging qualities that are very much in touch with nature.

The project is designed using wooden frame structure that resembles a Japanese larch forest. Larch timber columns are anchored in the mat foundation to provide the building’s primary structural support.

Each column is a composite of four 6×6 glulam timbers, held together by steel plates and bolts to create rigid moment connection.This allows the pavilion to float above the ground with volumes nested on the structure.

Type

Commercial

Area

750 m²

Status

Idea

Location

Sonoma, California

Year

2016