COFFER HOUSE architecture embraces the existing condition of the house while adopting a stark, monolithic form language—bold geometric with block-like massing that expresses the exposed construction. The owner’s favor—a house that emphasizes durability while also aiming for affordability—is expressed through a robust palette of concrete, plastered brick, steel, and glass. Each element is left unapologetically raw to highlight function and pragmatism. To balance out the stripped-down details and material language, a horizontal waffle slab system is deployed as a canopy. The spatial procession begins under the extended waffle canopy, which unfolds continuously from the ramped entry path all the way to the backyard pool terrace. Flanked by planter boxes and open to the sky, the structure remains deliberately unglazed—except above the main entrance, where a single skylight marks the threshold. However, the waffle grid has been structurally prepared for future insertion of skylights, offering flexibility without compromising the purity of the form. More than mere structure, the waffle grid becomes a signature detail, balancing structural necessity with ornamental expression. Moreover, it modulates light and shadow, offering rhythm to the space, and reinforces the building’s horizontality.
From the street, the house appears as a massive modern fortress. The lower level is largely enclosed by an existing solid boundary wall to ground the structure. This wall, almost entirely covered in creeping plants, softens what would otherwise be a harsh concrete base. Its lush, overgrown condition adds a layer of organic texture that contrasts beautifully with the raw minimalism of the renovated architecture. Recognizing its potential, the design opts to preserve this existing wall, allowing the vegetation to remain as a living facade. It acts as a vertical garden, visually cooling the plinth and bridging the natural and built environments. The only alteration proposed is the replacement of the existing steel gate which has deteriorated over time. A new gate—custom-designed to echo the renovated house’s brutalist language—will serve as a refined threshold, aligning the street-facing entry sequence with the architectural clarity of the COFFER HOUSE as a whole.
Due to site constraints and an existing raised first floor—set 2000mm above ground—the base of the house has been reconceived as a utility plinth; accommodating carports, garages, and service zones. A once abrupt staircase has been replaced with a gradually inclined ramp, softening the approach and offering a sequence in the entryway. The entry procession—framed by lush planter boxes and shaded by the overhead waffle canopy—functions as a decompression zone. Here, the structure and landscaping intertwine, introducing an almost meditative transition from street to sanctuary. The canopy remains open to the sky, eschewing skylights to intensify the outdoor elements. Shadow moves across the grid throughout the day, creating a dynamic play of light that animates the otherwise minimal material palette. In contrast to a utilitarian form, the surrounding landscape is intentionally counterbalanced. Material shift, planes bend, and vegetation punctuates voids—softening the visual weight of cold and minimal material palette.
Spatially, the architecture is orchestrated through a series of compressions and releases. The arrival zone—defined by an open waffle canopy without a solid ceiling—transitions into a narrow, low-ceiling foyer. Light is restricted here, scale is compressed, and attention is drawn inward toward a small courtyard anchored by a single Moringa tree—an organic counterpoint to the house’s rigid geometry. From this moment of stillness, the plan opens along a central axis: a corridor that runs horizontally along the X-axis, guiding movement past a reflecting pool. To the left, the volume expands vertically, revealing a dramatic double-height space. Here, a thin linear skylight slices through the ceiling, casting theatrical light onto a descending ramp that navigates the site’s existing level changes. Adjacent to this space, a slender staircase leads to the upper floor, punctuated by a large fixed glass window that frames the view of a dry garden and the Moringa tree—again illuminated from above by a skylight. Despite its narrow dimensions, this vertical passage feels unexpectedly expansive. Height, transparency, and natural light converge to create a powerful sense of openness.
Above, the upper floor accommodates a compact yet purposeful workspace. Despite its modest footprint, the workspace is strategically positioned to enhance both privacy and connectivity. It is accessed via an open corridor that runs alongside a double-height void overlooking the main living room—establishing a quiet visual dialogue between levels without compromising acoustic or functional separation. Rather than opening inward, the workspace turns outward—aligned along a linear axis that extends toward the pool terrace and backyard. This deliberate orientation fosters a sense of openness and focus, allowing uninterrupted views and abundant natural light to permeate the space. A cantilevered balcony extends from this upper workspace, puncturing the street-facing facade. Constructed of grated steel, the balcony floor appears lightweight and visually porous, minimizing its impact on the monolithic composition of the exterior. The material choice enhances transparency while casting a delicate pattern of shadows onto the facade below. This elevated platform offers a direct view toward the street, creating a moment of outward projection within a home that is otherwise introverted and composed. The balcony becomes both an architectural statement and a spatial release—a suspended threshold between the quiet introspection of the workspace and the activity of the street beyond. It introduces moments of relief and intensity, creating a sense of visual and spatial rhythm that enlivens the house.
Living spaces on the lower floor are conceived as sanctuaries of openness. Generous ceiling heights, large fenestrations, and fluid connections to the outdoors allow nature to pour in—visually and atmospherically. These spaces are choreographed to align with diurnal rhythms, casting long shadows and bathing surfaces in changing lights. To temper this openness, the massing of the architecture itself plays a crucial role in shading and sheltering. A substantial overhanging canopy—formed by the continuation of the waffle slab system—extends from the building’s mass, protecting key living areas from the intense tropical sun while reinforcing the architectural language of horizontality and rhythm. This delicate balance between openness and protection allows the interior to remain light-filled yet thermally comfortable. The main living areas are also designed with decompression in mind: featuring high ceilings, expansive rooms, large windows, and panoramic views toward the hardscape and landscape. Sunk in between two open spaces—a dry garden with Moringa tree and elevated outdoor pool—visual connectivity to nature is uninterrupted. Whilst the other two sides are also managed to be opened for circulation.
The pool sits elevated relative to the living area, a response to the site’s original topography. Its only modification—a reshaped corner—transforms the form into a clean rectangle, aligning with the home’s architectural language. At the far end, a striking waffle-structured canopy extends from the entrance ramp, floating above the outdoor terrace without columns, creating a sense of lightness while dramatically framing the house’s bold massing. Nestled within this space, enormous existing trees like Rambutan Tree, Plumeria Tree, and Red Lip Tree are preserved, their natural presence offering shade, serenity, and a vital connection to the tropical landscape.
COFFER HOUSE floor plan is configured to preserve two original bedroom units, each maintaining privacy through separation and access to a shared bathroom. These rooms open onto their own private terraces, shaded beneath the extended waffle canopy, and equipped with built-in outdoor benches—offering moments of solitude within the wider composition. This newly articulated space becomes the social heart of the house, designed for both everyday use and communal gathering. What distinguishes this space is its soft adjacency to the master suite—divided not by a wall, but by a long, narrow reflecting pool. This reflective surface becomes both a visual buffer and a connective thread. A custom wooden bench begins indoors, extending seamlessly across the water and into the backyard, blurring the threshold between interior and exterior, and reinforcing the architectural narrative of continuity. The side yard itself is conceived as a dry garden, covered with split stone and planted with loosely arranged Parahyba trees that provide a light lush element overhead. Planter boxes of varying heights introduce a sense of playfulness and vertical rhythm, offering contrast to the stark materiality of the architecture. Since the house is entirely detached from the site boundaries, landscape elements are allowed to wrap freely around all elevations—creating a lush, immersive buffer that tempers the austere, raw surfaces of concrete and steel.
The master suite occupies a privileged position—framed by water on multiple sites, it exudes calm and quietude. Large openings allow the light to reflect off the water’s surface, casting soft ripples and shadows into the room throughout the day. Within the master suite, the bathroom adopts a resort-style sensibility. A full-height glass wall opens to the bedroom, maintaining visual transparency and expanding the sense of space. The lavatory and freestanding bathtub are prominently displayed as sculptural elements, transforming essential functions into design statements. Behind this open arrangement, a walk-in closet is tucked discreetly away, ensuring ample storage while preserving the clarity of the room’s spatial flow. The entire composition is a study in contrast—between heaviness and lightness, enclosure and openness, austerity and elegance. Each placement is carefully placed to enhance the daily rituals of living, drawing from both the functional rigor of brutalism and the serenity of resort-inspired domesticity. The overall layout is highly efficient and structured. Corridors guide movement with clear intention, organizing the program into distinct zones for living, working, public engagement, and private retreat.
At its core, COFFER HOUSE is a study in restraint: a house that speaks in a minimal but resonant voice, where materials are left to tell their own story and spatial experience becomes the narrative thread. It is a place where brutalism meets intimacy, and efficiency gives way to poetics—there the menial becomes quietly monumental. Throughout, the house manipulates scale and light to shape mood and experience. Compression induces intimacy and introspection; release brings clarity and emotional relief. Programmatically, the plan is both rational and poetic. Circulation is clear and deliberate, guiding users through zones of public engagement, private retreat, and focused work. Each spatial sequence is calibrated to evoke sensation—coolness, stillness, warmth, drama—creating an architecture not only of form and function, but of feeling.
COFFER HOUSE architecture embraces the existing condition of the house while adopting a stark, monolithic form language—bold geometric with block-like massing that expresses the exposed construction. The owner’s favor—a house that emphasizes durability while also aiming for affordability—is expressed through a robust palette of concrete, plastered brick, steel, and glass. Each element is left unapologetically raw to highlight function and pragmatism. To balance out the stripped-down details and material language, a horizontal waffle slab system is deployed as a canopy. The spatial procession begins under the extended waffle canopy, which unfolds continuously from the ramped entry path all the way to the backyard pool terrace. Flanked by planter boxes and open to the sky, the structure remains deliberately unglazed—except above the main entrance, where a single skylight marks the threshold. However, the waffle grid has been structurally prepared for future insertion of skylights, offering flexibility without compromising the purity of the form. More than mere structure, the waffle grid becomes a signature detail, balancing structural necessity with ornamental expression. Moreover, it modulates light and shadow, offering rhythm to the space, and reinforces the building’s horizontality.
From the street, the house appears as a massive modern fortress. The lower level is largely enclosed by an existing solid boundary wall to ground the structure. This wall, almost entirely covered in creeping plants, softens what would otherwise be a harsh concrete base. Its lush, overgrown condition adds a layer of organic texture that contrasts beautifully with the raw minimalism of the renovated architecture. Recognizing its potential, the design opts to preserve this existing wall, allowing the vegetation to remain as a living facade. It acts as a vertical garden, visually cooling the plinth and bridging the natural and built environments. The only alteration proposed is the replacement of the existing steel gate which has deteriorated over time. A new gate—custom-designed to echo the renovated house’s brutalist language—will serve as a refined threshold, aligning the street-facing entry sequence with the architectural clarity of the COFFER HOUSE as a whole.
Due to site constraints and an existing raised first floor—set 2000mm above ground—the base of the house has been reconceived as a utility plinth; accommodating carports, garages, and service zones. A once abrupt staircase has been replaced with a gradually inclined ramp, softening the approach and offering a sequence in the entryway. The entry procession—framed by lush planter boxes and shaded by the overhead waffle canopy—functions as a decompression zone. Here, the structure and landscaping intertwine, introducing an almost meditative transition from street to sanctuary. The canopy remains open to the sky, eschewing skylights to intensify the outdoor elements. Shadow moves across the grid throughout the day, creating a dynamic play of light that animates the otherwise minimal material palette. In contrast to a utilitarian form, the surrounding landscape is intentionally counterbalanced. Material shift, planes bend, and vegetation punctuates voids—softening the visual weight of cold and minimal material palette.
Spatially, the architecture is orchestrated through a series of compressions and releases. The arrival zone—defined by an open waffle canopy without a solid ceiling—transitions into a narrow, low-ceiling foyer. Light is restricted here, scale is compressed, and attention is drawn inward toward a small courtyard anchored by a single Moringa tree—an organic counterpoint to the house’s rigid geometry. From this moment of stillness, the plan opens along a central axis: a corridor that runs horizontally along the X-axis, guiding movement past a reflecting pool. To the left, the volume expands vertically, revealing a dramatic double-height space. Here, a thin linear skylight slices through the ceiling, casting theatrical light onto a descending ramp that navigates the site’s existing level changes. Adjacent to this space, a slender staircase leads to the upper floor, punctuated by a large fixed glass window that frames the view of a dry garden and the Moringa tree—again illuminated from above by a skylight. Despite its narrow dimensions, this vertical passage feels unexpectedly expansive. Height, transparency, and natural light converge to create a powerful sense of openness.
Above, the upper floor accommodates a compact yet purposeful workspace. Despite its modest footprint, the workspace is strategically positioned to enhance both privacy and connectivity. It is accessed via an open corridor that runs alongside a double-height void overlooking the main living room—establishing a quiet visual dialogue between levels without compromising acoustic or functional separation. Rather than opening inward, the workspace turns outward—aligned along a linear axis that extends toward the pool terrace and backyard. This deliberate orientation fosters a sense of openness and focus, allowing uninterrupted views and abundant natural light to permeate the space. A cantilevered balcony extends from this upper workspace, puncturing the street-facing facade. Constructed of grated steel, the balcony floor appears lightweight and visually porous, minimizing its impact on the monolithic composition of the exterior. The material choice enhances transparency while casting a delicate pattern of shadows onto the facade below. This elevated platform offers a direct view toward the street, creating a moment of outward projection within a home that is otherwise introverted and composed. The balcony becomes both an architectural statement and a spatial release—a suspended threshold between the quiet introspection of the workspace and the activity of the street beyond. It introduces moments of relief and intensity, creating a sense of visual and spatial rhythm that enlivens the house.
Living spaces on the lower floor are conceived as sanctuaries of openness. Generous ceiling heights, large fenestrations, and fluid connections to the outdoors allow nature to pour in—visually and atmospherically. These spaces are choreographed to align with diurnal rhythms, casting long shadows and bathing surfaces in changing lights. To temper this openness, the massing of the architecture itself plays a crucial role in shading and sheltering. A substantial overhanging canopy—formed by the continuation of the waffle slab system—extends from the building’s mass, protecting key living areas from the intense tropical sun while reinforcing the architectural language of horizontality and rhythm. This delicate balance between openness and protection allows the interior to remain light-filled yet thermally comfortable. The main living areas are also designed with decompression in mind: featuring high ceilings, expansive rooms, large windows, and panoramic views toward the hardscape and landscape. Sunk in between two open spaces—a dry garden with Moringa tree and elevated outdoor pool—visual connectivity to nature is uninterrupted. Whilst the other two sides are also managed to be opened for circulation.
The pool sits elevated relative to the living area, a response to the site’s original topography. Its only modification—a reshaped corner—transforms the form into a clean rectangle, aligning with the home’s architectural language. At the far end, a striking waffle-structured canopy extends from the entrance ramp, floating above the outdoor terrace without columns, creating a sense of lightness while dramatically framing the house’s bold massing. Nestled within this space, enormous existing trees like Rambutan Tree, Plumeria Tree, and Red Lip Tree are preserved, their natural presence offering shade, serenity, and a vital connection to the tropical landscape.
COFFER HOUSE floor plan is configured to preserve two original bedroom units, each maintaining privacy through separation and access to a shared bathroom. These rooms open onto their own private terraces, shaded beneath the extended waffle canopy, and equipped with built-in outdoor benches—offering moments of solitude within the wider composition. This newly articulated space becomes the social heart of the house, designed for both everyday use and communal gathering. What distinguishes this space is its soft adjacency to the master suite—divided not by a wall, but by a long, narrow reflecting pool. This reflective surface becomes both a visual buffer and a connective thread. A custom wooden bench begins indoors, extending seamlessly across the water and into the backyard, blurring the threshold between interior and exterior, and reinforcing the architectural narrative of continuity. The side yard itself is conceived as a dry garden, covered with split stone and planted with loosely arranged Parahyba trees that provide a light lush element overhead. Planter boxes of varying heights introduce a sense of playfulness and vertical rhythm, offering contrast to the stark materiality of the architecture. Since the house is entirely detached from the site boundaries, landscape elements are allowed to wrap freely around all elevations—creating a lush, immersive buffer that tempers the austere, raw surfaces of concrete and steel.
The master suite occupies a privileged position—framed by water on multiple sites, it exudes calm and quietude. Large openings allow the light to reflect off the water’s surface, casting soft ripples and shadows into the room throughout the day. Within the master suite, the bathroom adopts a resort-style sensibility. A full-height glass wall opens to the bedroom, maintaining visual transparency and expanding the sense of space. The lavatory and freestanding bathtub are prominently displayed as sculptural elements, transforming essential functions into design statements. Behind this open arrangement, a walk-in closet is tucked discreetly away, ensuring ample storage while preserving the clarity of the room’s spatial flow. The entire composition is a study in contrast—between heaviness and lightness, enclosure and openness, austerity and elegance. Each placement is carefully placed to enhance the daily rituals of living, drawing from both the functional rigor of brutalism and the serenity of resort-inspired domesticity. The overall layout is highly efficient and structured. Corridors guide movement with clear intention, organizing the program into distinct zones for living, working, public engagement, and private retreat.
At its core, COFFER HOUSE is a study in restraint: a house that speaks in a minimal but resonant voice, where materials are left to tell their own story and spatial experience becomes the narrative thread. It is a place where brutalism meets intimacy, and efficiency gives way to poetics—there the menial becomes quietly monumental. Throughout, the house manipulates scale and light to shape mood and experience. Compression induces intimacy and introspection; release brings clarity and emotional relief. Programmatically, the plan is both rational and poetic. Circulation is clear and deliberate, guiding users through zones of public engagement, private retreat, and focused work. Each spatial sequence is calibrated to evoke sensation—coolness, stillness, warmth, drama—creating an architecture not only of form and function, but of feeling.
COFFER HOUSE architecture embraces the existing condition of the house while adopting a stark, monolithic form language—bold geometric with block-like massing that expresses the exposed construction. The owner’s favor—a house that emphasizes durability while also aiming for affordability—is expressed through a robust palette of concrete, plastered brick, steel, and glass. Each element is left unapologetically raw to highlight function and pragmatism. To balance out the stripped-down details and material language, a horizontal waffle slab system is deployed as a canopy. The spatial procession begins under the extended waffle canopy, which unfolds continuously from the ramped entry path all the way to the backyard pool terrace. Flanked by planter boxes and open to the sky, the structure remains deliberately unglazed—except above the main entrance, where a single skylight marks the threshold. However, the waffle grid has been structurally prepared for future insertion of skylights, offering flexibility without compromising the purity of the form. More than mere structure, the waffle grid becomes a signature detail, balancing structural necessity with ornamental expression. Moreover, it modulates light and shadow, offering rhythm to the space, and reinforces the building’s horizontality.
From the street, the house appears as a massive modern fortress. The lower level is largely enclosed by an existing solid boundary wall to ground the structure. This wall, almost entirely covered in creeping plants, softens what would otherwise be a harsh concrete base. Its lush, overgrown condition adds a layer of organic texture that contrasts beautifully with the raw minimalism of the renovated architecture. Recognizing its potential, the design opts to preserve this existing wall, allowing the vegetation to remain as a living facade. It acts as a vertical garden, visually cooling the plinth and bridging the natural and built environments. The only alteration proposed is the replacement of the existing steel gate which has deteriorated over time. A new gate—custom-designed to echo the renovated house’s brutalist language—will serve as a refined threshold, aligning the street-facing entry sequence with the architectural clarity of the COFFER HOUSE as a whole.
Due to site constraints and an existing raised first floor—set 2000mm above ground—the base of the house has been reconceived as a utility plinth; accommodating carports, garages, and service zones. A once abrupt staircase has been replaced with a gradually inclined ramp, softening the approach and offering a sequence in the entryway. The entry procession—framed by lush planter boxes and shaded by the overhead waffle canopy—functions as a decompression zone. Here, the structure and landscaping intertwine, introducing an almost meditative transition from street to sanctuary. The canopy remains open to the sky, eschewing skylights to intensify the outdoor elements. Shadow moves across the grid throughout the day, creating a dynamic play of light that animates the otherwise minimal material palette. In contrast to a utilitarian form, the surrounding landscape is intentionally counterbalanced. Material shift, planes bend, and vegetation punctuates voids—softening the visual weight of cold and minimal material palette.
Spatially, the architecture is orchestrated through a series of compressions and releases. The arrival zone—defined by an open waffle canopy without a solid ceiling—transitions into a narrow, low-ceiling foyer. Light is restricted here, scale is compressed, and attention is drawn inward toward a small courtyard anchored by a single Moringa tree—an organic counterpoint to the house’s rigid geometry. From this moment of stillness, the plan opens along a central axis: a corridor that runs horizontally along the X-axis, guiding movement past a reflecting pool. To the left, the volume expands vertically, revealing a dramatic double-height space. Here, a thin linear skylight slices through the ceiling, casting theatrical light onto a descending ramp that navigates the site’s existing level changes. Adjacent to this space, a slender staircase leads to the upper floor, punctuated by a large fixed glass window that frames the view of a dry garden and the Moringa tree—again illuminated from above by a skylight. Despite its narrow dimensions, this vertical passage feels unexpectedly expansive. Height, transparency, and natural light converge to create a powerful sense of openness.
Above, the upper floor accommodates a compact yet purposeful workspace. Despite its modest footprint, the workspace is strategically positioned to enhance both privacy and connectivity. It is accessed via an open corridor that runs alongside a double-height void overlooking the main living room—establishing a quiet visual dialogue between levels without compromising acoustic or functional separation. Rather than opening inward, the workspace turns outward—aligned along a linear axis that extends toward the pool terrace and backyard. This deliberate orientation fosters a sense of openness and focus, allowing uninterrupted views and abundant natural light to permeate the space. A cantilevered balcony extends from this upper workspace, puncturing the street-facing facade. Constructed of grated steel, the balcony floor appears lightweight and visually porous, minimizing its impact on the monolithic composition of the exterior. The material choice enhances transparency while casting a delicate pattern of shadows onto the facade below. This elevated platform offers a direct view toward the street, creating a moment of outward projection within a home that is otherwise introverted and composed. The balcony becomes both an architectural statement and a spatial release—a suspended threshold between the quiet introspection of the workspace and the activity of the street beyond. It introduces moments of relief and intensity, creating a sense of visual and spatial rhythm that enlivens the house.
Living spaces on the lower floor are conceived as sanctuaries of openness. Generous ceiling heights, large fenestrations, and fluid connections to the outdoors allow nature to pour in—visually and atmospherically. These spaces are choreographed to align with diurnal rhythms, casting long shadows and bathing surfaces in changing lights. To temper this openness, the massing of the architecture itself plays a crucial role in shading and sheltering. A substantial overhanging canopy—formed by the continuation of the waffle slab system—extends from the building’s mass, protecting key living areas from the intense tropical sun while reinforcing the architectural language of horizontality and rhythm. This delicate balance between openness and protection allows the interior to remain light-filled yet thermally comfortable. The main living areas are also designed with decompression in mind: featuring high ceilings, expansive rooms, large windows, and panoramic views toward the hardscape and landscape. Sunk in between two open spaces—a dry garden with Moringa tree and elevated outdoor pool—visual connectivity to nature is uninterrupted. Whilst the other two sides are also managed to be opened for circulation.
The pool sits elevated relative to the living area, a response to the site’s original topography. Its only modification—a reshaped corner—transforms the form into a clean rectangle, aligning with the home’s architectural language. At the far end, a striking waffle-structured canopy extends from the entrance ramp, floating above the outdoor terrace without columns, creating a sense of lightness while dramatically framing the house’s bold massing. Nestled within this space, enormous existing trees like Rambutan Tree, Plumeria Tree, and Red Lip Tree are preserved, their natural presence offering shade, serenity, and a vital connection to the tropical landscape.
COFFER HOUSE floor plan is configured to preserve two original bedroom units, each maintaining privacy through separation and access to a shared bathroom. These rooms open onto their own private terraces, shaded beneath the extended waffle canopy, and equipped with built-in outdoor benches—offering moments of solitude within the wider composition. This newly articulated space becomes the social heart of the house, designed for both everyday use and communal gathering. What distinguishes this space is its soft adjacency to the master suite—divided not by a wall, but by a long, narrow reflecting pool. This reflective surface becomes both a visual buffer and a connective thread. A custom wooden bench begins indoors, extending seamlessly across the water and into the backyard, blurring the threshold between interior and exterior, and reinforcing the architectural narrative of continuity. The side yard itself is conceived as a dry garden, covered with split stone and planted with loosely arranged Parahyba trees that provide a light lush element overhead. Planter boxes of varying heights introduce a sense of playfulness and vertical rhythm, offering contrast to the stark materiality of the architecture. Since the house is entirely detached from the site boundaries, landscape elements are allowed to wrap freely around all elevations—creating a lush, immersive buffer that tempers the austere, raw surfaces of concrete and steel.
The master suite occupies a privileged position—framed by water on multiple sites, it exudes calm and quietude. Large openings allow the light to reflect off the water’s surface, casting soft ripples and shadows into the room throughout the day. Within the master suite, the bathroom adopts a resort-style sensibility. A full-height glass wall opens to the bedroom, maintaining visual transparency and expanding the sense of space. The lavatory and freestanding bathtub are prominently displayed as sculptural elements, transforming essential functions into design statements. Behind this open arrangement, a walk-in closet is tucked discreetly away, ensuring ample storage while preserving the clarity of the room’s spatial flow. The entire composition is a study in contrast—between heaviness and lightness, enclosure and openness, austerity and elegance. Each placement is carefully placed to enhance the daily rituals of living, drawing from both the functional rigor of brutalism and the serenity of resort-inspired domesticity. The overall layout is highly efficient and structured. Corridors guide movement with clear intention, organizing the program into distinct zones for living, working, public engagement, and private retreat.
At its core, COFFER HOUSE is a study in restraint: a house that speaks in a minimal but resonant voice, where materials are left to tell their own story and spatial experience becomes the narrative thread. It is a place where brutalism meets intimacy, and efficiency gives way to poetics—there the menial becomes quietly monumental. Throughout, the house manipulates scale and light to shape mood and experience. Compression induces intimacy and introspection; release brings clarity and emotional relief. Programmatically, the plan is both rational and poetic. Circulation is clear and deliberate, guiding users through zones of public engagement, private retreat, and focused work. Each spatial sequence is calibrated to evoke sensation—coolness, stillness, warmth, drama—creating an architecture not only of form and function, but of feeling.
Indonesia
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