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Mekarwangi House (
Project:
Mekarwangi House/Wall and Slab House
Site
area: 100 sqm
Built-up
Area: 225 sqm
Contractor:
Confidential
Client:
Confidential
Status:Construction
Status:
Commenced on October 2011
Principal:
Asa Darmatriaji
Co-Principal:
Kemal Ramadhan
Project
Team: Davi Regines (Design Assistant)
Rendering:
designstudio
Mekarwangi house is located in South part of
Bandung city in Indonesia. The climate condition around it was relatively hot
and humid, because it’s adjacent with the city industrial zone. This condition lead
us to take account the hot wind and high humidity level in our design process. It
was sited in a 100sqm plot of land. The owner’s requirements were quite a lot
in comparison with the size of the plot.
Our main concept was introducing a wall and slab house that is nestled in between
various types of neighbouring buildings, which lead us to provide an open plan
concept on each floor which is suited with the client profession and give a
freedom to the client to modify the house. The house design approach is able to
adapt for several functions; by applying several layers on the wall and slabs
will allow the user for more control. The first layer of the building or
windows are adjustable to rest on one or both sides of the neighbouring walls, and
in the second layer with perforated metal which will allow the owner to
manually or mechanically to limit or control the direct sunlight according to
their necessities. The house was designed to avoid columns that are exposed,
and each floor is free open space that could be used for multi purposes.
Architecture has been a tool of commodities
that are being traded like a fashion, whether being shown either in public or
for private purposes. The main concept was inspired from an open concept of Sundanese traditional houses in Indonesia which would bring the house user to embrace his
or her own personality to their surroundings; the design was intended to
achieve certain level of efficiency, simplicity, openness, which tries to emphasize the main
characteristics of our traditional culture.
