Considering Feng Shui practice, the entrance door was deliberately positioned on the house's left side and the stairs on the right side. As a result, two adjacent foyers were created—one in front as a semi-outdoor space connecting to the services area and the other joining the stairs as a threshold to the house's main space on the floor above.
The design emerged from a desire to translate the construct of a single sound wave into an overarching architectural gesture that defines the spatial qualities
Kami ucapkan terima kasih serta penghargaan sebesar-besarnya untuk seluruh Sobat Elephant atas partisipasinya dalam Perzpective #2 yang berjudul "Compact House in Tropical Climate"!
Bias House lays with additive and subtractive transformation to create an impression that the rooms are more connected to the outside and thus more spacious.
Summers Friend House, designed by Phidias Indonesia, is a solution for the concern. It shows architectural strategies for a compact house on a narrow site.
Dago T House is a humble and contemporary house with in a tropical setting with high humidity and rainfall located on a steep hill of Dago Pakar Resor, Bandung.
The designer highlights the design concept towards the interior of the building by removing the indoors and outdoors boundaries. As a result, the concept introduces open spaces in each floor and place them between functional rooms.
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.
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.