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Developments for Laboratorium Bintaro, focusing on its Design Center and Retail structure.

Retail building retains the idea of a long structure interrupting the entire width of the site, maximizing its exposure to the visitor’s traffic. An array of thin columns, several smaller ‘blocks’, a mezzanine, a raised & an enclosed garden tied by one continuous roof.

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1 Retail building, with Design Center in the background
2 Shaded outdoor seating of a tenant
3 Retail building, with Blackbox Theater hidden in the background

Developments for Laboratorium Bintaro, focusing on its Design Center and Retail structure.

Supporting spaces organized to envelope Design Center’s main exhibition space, while creating a number of opportunities in its terraces.

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1 Office in the 2nd floor
2 Small design book shop
3 Small design shop, with rainwater retention pool
4 View towards Retail building

Developments for Laboratorium Bintaro, focusing on its Design Center and Retail structure.

The Design Center focuses around the idea of highly flexible & configurable spaces beneath one roof, with open & enclosed terraces around its perimeter. The flexibility of its spaces with varying scales and transparency mirrors the spirit of as a fluid & open design exposition for all.

Laboratorium Bintaro won the design competition held by back in late 2022, with .studio.id as our collaborator.

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1/2 Design Center viewed from Material Library / main street
3/4/5 Varying modes of operation
6 Design Center viewed from the Main Storage

A series of shelves for our very own Home-Office : OT-Shelf 1. The one to greet at the front door. Bare plywood with functional holes ✔️
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Built by .rayuanpulaukelapa
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It’s heartwarming to see our modular display system all stacked up and filled by amazing tenants at 🤩 We designed the system in light of ‘s need to constantly reconfigure its retail space according to its events - utilizing an idea & residual parts of our past project.

House 6 (9 x 11m), one of Seven Houses. West-facing, three bedrooms.

Two pavilions pushed into the site’s edges, creating a gap in between. The first pavilion accomodates bedrooms, pantry, bathrooms, and small terraces. The other pavilion houses the stairs, laundry, and storages.
The gap is covered by a large gable roof suspended between the pavilions. It forms a double-height living room. A bridge beneath the roof connects the two pavilions, while providing more space to work.

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Seven Houses were originally developed as an experiment on the matter, based on an aging ‘perumahan’ in East Surabaya with its hot & humid climate, a typical for coastal urban areas. Seven types of houses are specified for sites ranging from 7,5x14 meters to 5x11 meters with different site orientations.

The design sticks to several principles :

- Utilizing service areas (toilets, laundry area, pantry, terraces, some strategic corridors) and some transitional spaces to shield the house from the North and or West sun.
- Adequate ceiling cavity in rooms in second floor with longer period of usage. Strategic vents are made to evacuate heat upwards more effectively.
- 2.8m ceiling height to ensure the ease of maintenance over longer period of time.
- A minimum of two walls with operable windows in every room of the house.
- Open air but covered circulation corridors throughout the house, with possibilities to ‘air-tight’ some communal rooms.
- Ventilations above every doors and windows with small perforations to keep insects out.
- Adequate setbacks from every side of the house.
- Relatively short span structures.

Seven Houses is an ongoing study, as we seek for opportunities to implement these principles in the real world.

We’re always open to any interested parties 🚨
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House 5 (5.4 x 14m), one of Seven Houses. South-facing, two bedrooms.

Bedrooms and communal spaces are presented towards the front of the house. The corridor forms terraces in both ends. A series of service spaces and a two-level backyard in the back acting as a barrier from the north sun.

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Seven Houses were originally developed as an experiment on the matter, based on an aging ‘perumahan’ in East Surabaya with its hot & humid climate, a typical for coastal urban areas. Seven types of houses are specified for sites ranging from 7,5x14 meters to 5x11 meters with different site orientations.

The design sticks to several principles :

- Utilizing service areas (toilets, laundry area, pantry, terraces, some strategic corridors) and some transitional spaces to shield the house from the North and or West sun.
- Adequate ceiling cavity in rooms in second floor with longer period of usage. Strategic vents are made to evacuate heat upwards more effectively.
- 2.8m ceiling height to ensure the ease of maintenance over longer period of time.
- A minimum of two walls with operable windows in every room of the house.
- Open air but covered circulation corridors throughout the house, with possibilities to ‘air-tight’ some communal rooms.
- Ventilations above every doors and windows with small perforations to keep insects out.
- Adequate setbacks from every side of the house.
- Relatively short span structures.

Seven Houses is an ongoing study, as we seek for opportunities to implement these principles in the real world.

We’re always open to any interested parties 👀
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House 4 (7.5 x 14m), one of Seven Houses. South-facing, four bedrooms.

Bedrooms and communal spaces are presented towards the front of the house. The corridor forms terraces in both ends. A series of service spaces and a two-level backyard in the back acting as a barrier from the north sun.

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Seven Houses were originally developed as an experiment on the matter, based on an aging ‘perumahan’ in East Surabaya with its hot & humid climate, a typical for coastal urban areas. Seven types of houses are specified for sites ranging from 7,5x14 meters to 5x11 meters with different site orientations.

The design sticks to several principles :

- Utilizing service areas (toilets, laundry area, pantry, terraces, some strategic corridors) and some transitional spaces to shield the house from the North and or West sun.
- Adequate ceiling cavity in rooms in second floor with longer period of usage. Strategic vents are made to evacuate heat upwards more effectively.
- 2.8m ceiling height to ensure the ease of maintenance over longer period of time.
- A minimum of two walls with operable windows in every room of the house.
- Open air but covered circulation corridors throughout the house, with possibilities to ‘air-tight’ some communal rooms.
- Ventilations above every doors and windows with small perforations to keep insects out.
- Adequate setbacks from every side of the house.
- Relatively short span structures.

Seven Houses is an ongoing study, as we seek for opportunities to implement these principles in the real world.

We’re always open to any interested parties 👀
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Entering the last day to vote TAS 63, one of our project that has been nominated as ‘s Building of The Year 2024. Link to vote in bio.
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House 2 (5 x 14m), one of Seven Houses. North-facing, two bedrooms.

Spaces are arranged linearly, with threshold and service spaces (entry foyer, toilet, bathroom, laundry, stairs, storage, and pantry) contained within a small section of floor plan - acting as a barrier from the North sun with its longest exposure over a year.

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Seven Houses were originally developed as an experiment on the matter, based on an aging ‘perumahan’ in East Surabaya with its hot & humid climate, a typical for coastal urban areas. Seven types of houses are specified for sites ranging from 7,5x14 meters to 5x11 meters with different site orientations.

The design sticks to several principles :

- Utilizing service areas (toilets, laundry area, pantry, terraces, some strategic corridors) and some transitional spaces to shield the house from the North and or West sun.
- Adequate ceiling cavity in rooms in second floor with longer period of usage. Strategic vents are made to evacuate heat upwards more effectively.
- 2.8m ceiling height to ensure the ease of maintenance over longer period of time.
- A minimum of two walls with operable windows in every room of the house.
- Open air but covered circulation corridors throughout the house, with possibilities to ‘air-tight’ some communal rooms.
- Ventilations above every doors and windows with small perforations to keep insects out.
- Adequate setbacks from every side of the house.
- Relatively short span structures.

Seven Houses is an ongoing study, as we seek for opportunities to implement these principles in the real world.

We’re always open to any interested parties 👀
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House 1 (7,5 x 14m), one of Seven Houses. North-facing, five bedrooms.

We’ve always had a particular interest in small houses and its approachability to the wider mass, particularly on its potentials when it tackles fundamental concerns of housing as critical and as considerate as possible. These are the type of houses that requires the most balancing acts in designing, since there’s often so many necessities to be addressed with relatively small amount of resources available.

These concerns are usually, but not limited to : limited site area, harsh urban climate, limited construction budget, limited maintenance cost (and effort), as well as the amount of ‘rooms’ needed for general Indonesian household.

Seven Houses were originally developed as an experiment on the matter, based on an aging ‘perumahan’ in East Surabaya with its hot & humid climate, a typical for coastal urban areas. Seven types of houses are specified for sites ranging from 7,5x14 meters to 5x11 meters with different site orientations.

The design sticks to several principles :

- Utilizing service areas (toilets, laundry area, pantry, terraces, some strategic corridors) and some transitional spaces to shield the house from the North and or West sun.
- Adequate ceiling cavity in rooms in second floor with longer period of usage. Strategic vents are made to evacuate heat upwards more effectively.
- 2.8m ceiling height to ensure the ease of maintenance over longer period of time.
- A minimum of two walls with operable windows in every room of the house.
- Open air but covered circulation corridors throughout the house, with possibilities to ‘air-tight’ some communal rooms.
- Ventilations above every doors and windows with small perforations to keep insects out.
- Adequate setbacks from every side of the house.
- Relatively short span structures.

Seven Houses is an ongoing study, as we seek for opportunities to implement these principles in the real world.

We’re always open to any interested parties 👀
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Proposal for a hotel in a 2.200 sqm plot. The design incorporates an existing abandoned 6-story structure into the hotel’s event spaces (the smaller building), crafting the circulation around it to make way for a new, larger structure to house the main hotel’s functions.
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Snippets of our exhibition design for The 10th East Java Biennale : Invisible Territories. The design exploits the artwork’s scale and shape, responding to indoor, outdoor, and terrace spaces of Orasis Art Space.

The artworks are arranged in response to its curatorial framework, in which all of them exist in a perpetual interruption in its visual access. Together, they form a chain of constant foreground - background connections.

The 10th East Java Biennale will be opened at December 9th 2023.
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Holes and handles for a House in Malang. In collaboration with .office
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A House in Malang, in collaboration with .office
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A House in Malang, in collaboration with .office
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Working models of our ongoing exploration on small-scale housing.
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A renovation & extension for a long & angled house in NSW. We do love the challenge of peculiar sites 🤩
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Different design approaches in renovating a tricky L-shaped space into a barbershop in Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan.
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1. Treating an indestructible corner.
2. Layering three chambers.
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Concrete stacks & stone slabs. Construction images of ‘Table as Boundary’ for inaugural event in mid 2022.
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