
Many
ways in designing a house that can accommodate the resident’s desire.
It can be started by grouping different room function in a residential
building. Function becomes an accent in space arrangement, it can close
between the occupants with the designed space (inside or outside) and
residents who live in it. All arrangements make a mutually beneficial
symbiosis. Ethics in this residential design is based on an arrangement
concept that packed in a spatial house design with dualism character
“minimalist-tropical”, making this urban house expressed natural, calm,
and tranquility.

This
home in West Jakarta was built on parallelogram area with the
dimensions of 12×30m². The total area of 360m2, while the building area
approximately 800m2 and divided into 3½ floors. Semi-basement floor is
used as service area and home theater that has special access. The
ground floor serves as the main rooms placement: living room, dining
room, pantry, family room, swimming pool, and guest bedroom. The second
floor is the private spaces; three children bedrooms and master bedroom.
Penthouse floor is created as multipurpose room for gymnastics and
pantry with open barbecue that has access to the green garden roof.

The
building was designed massive as facade solution that overlooking to
the west. The field looks forward is a wall layer of heat penetration,
so it’s just made mini window to flow the air into the building. This
great massive area becomes a prominent background as facade accent that
closed by a horizontal grille panel. This panel serves as shading, can
be open and close appropriate needs. This simple form is combined by
giving andesite stone in vertical field in order to appear different in
the environment that more Mediterranean stylish, classical and tropical
modern.

Simple
and minimalist facade becomes the outer skin to protect all activities
in which the rich space, as if becomes protector in any spaces. The room
functions were created to accommodate all requirements that desired by
the owner. The room function is separated but still related with each
other. All means how to form separate room but remain united in it, so
that a system is necessary, to form room divisions with semi-transparent
sliding door. Many details that must be devised to keep the correlation
between spaces, spatial composition, and building arrangement.

Entering
the main door, created a hidden staircase behind black andesite stone
wall. Transparent glass canopy at the building entrance becomes the
emphasis accent and becomes point interest in introverted facade field.
The space division with sliding door or transparent panel is a strategy
to create space more dynamic and attractive. Both the correlation
between inside and outside.

Tropical Living, Atmosphere & Moods:
Simple and minimal shape on the facade makes a startling transformation
when entering the house. We seemed to be invited to explore, according
to circulation and the designed space. Hall in the living room, when a
sliding door opened, it will be directly through the park toward the
back as open space on the building side. The foyer with white sandstone
walls, can be directly through the hallway that one of the walls is made
of digital-print murals with bamboo forest picture as accent.

When
crossed, we will find alternate choices of space. Both the dining room
adjacent to the pantry, hall stairs as vertical circulation in the
middle of building and directly out onto the terrace courtyard and open
pool. In general, this building is designed with courtyard house concept
and shaped “U”. Then added vertical slits to optimize natural lighting.
Connecting area between the front and rear are raised (raise-floor). In
this area also placed the family room which has folding glass window on
both sides. This floor lifting in addition to make the pool more
optimal and has length 9 m², also to make air flow freely and there is
no “dead air”.

Raise-floor
is made using transparent glass floor with steel construction, so the
family room seem very transparent, both open horizontally into garden
and courtyard also invisibility vertical in enjoying light and waves in
the pool. At the rear of building on the ground floor, there is a guest
bedroom that equipped with walk-in closet that attached to the bathroom.
This bedroom has view towards the pool. View can also be enjoyed by all
out-line schematic spaces from the ground floor.

The
master bedroom is located in the rear side on the second floor, while
one bedroom is in the middle area, and the others are mutually lined up
in front of the building. Top floor is a supporting living, gym
(multipurpose), pantry with sitting room roofed skylight, and
roof-garden that covers the entire concretes. The entire room creations
are based on the owner’s wishes and ideas then processed to get the
beautiful atmosphere and the owner’s mood. An iconic of urban house that
wants to adopt a minimalist tropical house and be able to create an
oasis in the middle of busy and crowded urban.
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