Passive Lab House by RAD+ar is built on a land plot in a housing complex in Greater Jakarta. Surrounded by lush greenery, the corner house stands as a monolithic block with its rough concrete façade. Taking a closer look, the robust frontage opens to an inner part of the house exterior—a terrace with a swimming pool and glass-cladded balcony.

Blossom, an international Asian cuisine restaurant, is one of the many restaurants that sets foot in Marina Bay Sands Hotel, Singapore. As a 550-square-metre space, its footprint is rather miniscule compared to the vast and extensive lobby where it is located. Many restaurants in this case, whether in large hotel lobbies, shopping mall atria, food courts, or airports, are usually designed to be as open as possible. These restaurants are common to be only bounded by low partitions, which usually function to demarcate the dining space so that it does not interfere with the overall circulation.

Selain warnanya yang memberi kesan hangat pada ruangan, motif kayu pada lantai juga dapat memperindah visual ruangan, khususnya bila ingin menerapkan desain bergaya minimalis, rustic, skandinavia, atau bahkan industrial. Namun, memasang material kayu solid atau parket tentu bukan investasi yang terjangkau untuk semua kalangan. Belum lagi, menggunakan kayu asli berarti penghuni rumah harus memiliki komitmen untuk merawat material tersebut terus menerus agar tetap tampak cantik.

Situasi pandemi saat ini mengharuskan perusahaan dan bisnis mencari penyesuaian khususnya untuk pertemuan fisik yang biasa diperlukan baik untuk kebutuhan internal maupun eksternal. Khususnya karena dijalankannya protokol kesehatan untuk menekan penyebaran virus, menjadi hampir tidak mungkin bagi perseorangan atau perusahaan untuk mengadakan perjalanan ke luar negeri. Adanya peraturan physical distancing, karantina mandiri, atau di beberapa daerah yang menetapkan lockdown semakin mempersulit pemenuhan kebutuhan meeting secara fisik tersebut.

Rumpun at Happi Village is an accommodation in Janda Baik, a natural gateway located one-hour-drive from Kuala Lumpur. Spread across a five-hectare land with lush forest and gardens, the accommodation hosts a dozen of guestrooms and several facilities. Instead of using the natural setting as a backdrop, the living spaces are nested in it and so the two become inseparable.

Di tengah proses pembangunan kota yang semakin pesat, salah satu jenis bangunan yang terus dikembangkan adalah perumahan. Fakta ini lebih terasa khususnya di kota-kota besar di Indonesia, mengingat area perkotaan yang masih mudah mengalami pemekaran dan banyaknya lahan yang tersedia. Tidak bisa dipungkiri, pembangunan perumahan yang memanfaatkan lahan luas sulit dipisahkan dari masalah lingkungan dan keberlanjutan. Pembangunan yang pesat juga akhirnya bisa disetarakan dengan peningkatan kerusakan lingkungan.

Sebagai jenis penutup jendela, blinds dan curtain memiliki beragam varietas desain maupun material. Melalui perpaduan yang tepat dengan bentuk jendela, kedua jenis penutup jendela ini dapat menghadirkan nilai estetika dengan kesan yang Anda inginkan. Yuk, kita simak ulasan di bawah ini untuk membantu Anda menentukan penutup jendela yang tepat berdasarkan bentuk jendela di hunian Anda!

Fergio, perusahaan yang bergerak di bidang lantai kayu, membuka showroom terbarunya di Tangerang. Berbeda dengan showroom material pada umumnya, showroom Fergio dirancang dengan pengalaman ruang yang menarik disertai dengan konsep terbuka untuk umum. “Melihat Tangerang yang berkembang pesat, kami memiliki intensi menghadirkan media yang dapat menjangkau masyarakat di area tersebut untuk memudahkan mereka mengenal dan merasakan langsung Fergio dan kualitas produk lantai kayunya,” jelas Wismoyo Wirahadikusuma, Head of Marketing Fergio.

Situated in a dense neighbourhood in South Jakarta, H House stands on a corner land plot that measures only over 60 square metres. A plot with this size is tiny already, but the buildable area is even more limited as the city regulation requires setbacks from two sides of the land plot that are adjacent to the streets. As a result, H House can only utilise not more than 40 square metres of the land to erect the building.

Although terraced house often represents a mass production for dwellings, there are many ways design intervention could give this building typology a more personalised touch. Bewboc House by Fabian Tan Architect displays an interesting design intervention to a young family’s terraced house in Kuala Lumpur.

Recently, compact design has gained much popularity as a solution to a denser and more expensive space in cities around the world. In terms of functionality, compact design boasts its spatial flexibility—being able to cover multiple needs within one space. If most compact designs are usually applied for residential buildings, the recently finished Deloitte Center for the Edge (Asia Pacific) office in Singapore explores the possibilities of this design approach for a shared space.

In the recent years, adaptive reuse has become one of the most effective approaches in keeping unoccupied buildings with historic values from being demolished. By bringing new functions and purposes, aged buildings can gain new lives and at the same time offer shared memories and perspectives to the community. Generally, adaptive reuse principle is to leave a substantial portion of the historical significance intact while adding new elements to accommodate new purposes.