residential

January 31 2023

The Rice Barn House

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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

February 29 2020

Soft Edge

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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.

Type

Residential

Area

200 m²

Status

Built

Location

Jakarta, Indonesia

Year

2020

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

October 22 2019

Strategic Openness

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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.

Type

Residential

Area

1,100 m²

Status

Under Construction

Location

Jakarta, Indonesia

Year

2019

May 29 2019

Intertwine Residence

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Intertwine Residence | Jakarta, INA

Designed to be inhabited by two related families, the Intertwine House is a residential project located in a highly dense residential complex in Kebayoran Lama, Jakarta, Indonesia.

With a site of 17,5 m wide and 64,6 m deep, the design challenge lies in creating a harmonious cohabitation arrangement between the two families’ way of living. Thus, K-Thengono has deliberately positioned programs, surrounded the property with natural elements and use a mix of construction strategies to create an attuned, prodigious and lavished living quality.

The house is centred on the main Living Area which functions as a communal space that could host leisure and social activities between all the members of the house. The double height living space serves as a divider, as well as a connecting passage to the family private clusters located at the second floor. Each family private cluster comprises of 1 main bedroom and 2 kids’ bedrooms that are connected through a foyer to the Family Room. These layers of privacy from the Living Area, the Family Room to the bedrooms are meant to create a gradual disintegration from the crowd to the individual.

The Living Area at the Ground Floor is juxtaposed with other communal programs such as the pool, the common space, and the home theatre. In complying to the Building Covered Ratio (BCR) set out by the developer, an extended communal programs of gym and playroom are built at the back of the garden using temporary structure of steel. In complementary to the chic, modern, tropical interior setting that the owners have envisioned, we used a glue laminated timber structure to highlight the mass of the Living Area that is flanked by two concrete wrapped masses. The difference in materials highlight the morphology of the building.

The surrounding of the mass is filled with voids of green belts and elements of water to improve living qualities. The pockets of void are made accessible through the folding glass-doors within the Living Area thus allowing for a naturally, ventilated space. The openness concept blurs the outdoor indoor environment, hence creating the Living Area as a flexible space. The entirety of the house is designed to provide an unparalleled living quality while keeping the balance between the two families.

Type

Residential

Area

1200 m²

Status

Under Construction

Location

Jakarta, Indonesia

Year

2021

Intertwine Residence

January 22 2019

3-in-1 Living

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3-in-1 Living | Jakarta, INA

Understanding the limitation of a compact space,

The design for the apartment is to accommodate a young married couple comfortably. Their brief was to have an area for yoga, as many storage spaces, kitchen space, dining space, and lounging space in the 16sqm size of its living room. The master bedroom on the other hand, was requested to be simple and clean, providing enough storage and display spaces. The challenge was to provide all amenities necessary with some additional effort of converting the living space to fit everyday needs.

The solution was a single strategy to create a transformable built-in cabinet that can be used with great flexibility and change its appearance during the day and by the uses. A custom dining bench and table fold out of the wall to transform the living space into a dining room. A custom sofa is embedded in the cabinet using Bi-Fold system to save more space. When all the panels are closed, the clutter is hidden inside, the living space allows some extra activities like yoga and home workout to take place.

The nuance is kept minimalist with white surfaces and white carrara countertop marble, magnifying the feeling of space and light. Mirror walls are deployed in the space to create a sense of depth and add dimension to the space. Both the master bedroom and bathroom are connected with a translucent pivot metal door to maximize the daylight penetration. Sliding panels are used to hide unorganized closet in the rooms or allow the veneered wooden rack for displays. Functionality is key to the various design strategies, making every piece of furniture as efficient as possible for multiple uses.

Type

Residential

Area

42 m²

Status

Built

Location

Jakarta, Indonesia

Year

2020

January 23 2016

Eternal Conversion

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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