The project is designed as the second home from the client’s main house in Jakarta. The client requested a simple house with four bedrooms, living area and service area that embody a functional and comfortable living.
The concept is derived from the condition that the project sits on a sloping land with three meters difference. The site was divided into three levels which the three main programs were placed : service and garage was placed on the highest level of the site, the living area on the middle, and the private spaces on the lowest. The three masses cascade down the site and thus giving the term cascading house.
Two courtyards were inserted between three masses to provide light and air for the interior. These later become essential feature as they create transitional spaces between masses and levels.
The skylights that were placed on entry area, stairs, and various rooms were provided to invite natural light for spaces that lack opening. The feature later creates varying rays and shadows as the day passes, naturally tells the passage of time inside the house.
A reflecting pool is added adjacent to the living room to bring cooler air into the house. It later utilize the sloping characteristic of the site to make the water flows down to become a waterfall, constantly creates splashing sound of water throughout the house.
As the house follows the topography of the site, it does not alter the form of the land. Thus it gives birth an architecture that respects the existing condition. The house also only uses concrete and wood as the main materials. Through simplicity, the continuity of materials creates a harmonious spatial experience throughout the building.
The house is characterized with 1.1m x 2.2 m concrete pattern that envelopes the whole building inside out. The pattern drives the way the masses are arranged vertically throughout the site. The concrete are also placed so that it continuously wrapping the building from the first mass all the way to the third mass. As the concrete pattern should be casted on site by wrapping the wall inside out, It become the most challenging part during the construction process. Later this was sorted out through rigorous approach by drawing every wall elevations and constant communication between architect and contractor.
The project is designed as the second home from the client’s main house in Jakarta. The client requested a simple house with four bedrooms, living area and service area that embody a functional and comfortable living.
The concept is derived from the condition that the project sits on a sloping land with three meters difference. The site was divided into three levels which the three main programs were placed : service and garage was placed on the highest level of the site, the living area on the middle, and the private spaces on the lowest. The three masses cascade down the site and thus giving the term cascading house.
Two courtyards were inserted between three masses to provide light and air for the interior. These later become essential feature as they create transitional spaces between masses and levels.
The skylights that were placed on entry area, stairs, and various rooms were provided to invite natural light for spaces that lack opening. The feature later creates varying rays and shadows as the day passes, naturally tells the passage of time inside the house.
A reflecting pool is added adjacent to the living room to bring cooler air into the house. It later utilize the sloping characteristic of the site to make the water flows down to become a waterfall, constantly creates splashing sound of water throughout the house.
As the house follows the topography of the site, it does not alter the form of the land. Thus it gives birth an architecture that respects the existing condition. The house also only uses concrete and wood as the main materials. Through simplicity, the continuity of materials creates a harmonious spatial experience throughout the building.
The house is characterized with 1.1m x 2.2 m concrete pattern that envelopes the whole building inside out. The pattern drives the way the masses are arranged vertically throughout the site. The concrete are also placed so that it continuously wrapping the building from the first mass all the way to the third mass. As the concrete pattern should be casted on site by wrapping the wall inside out, It become the most challenging part during the construction process. Later this was sorted out through rigorous approach by drawing every wall elevations and constant communication between architect and contractor.
The project is designed as the second home from the client’s main house in Jakarta. The client requested a simple house with four bedrooms, living area and service area that embody a functional and comfortable living.
The concept is derived from the condition that the project sits on a sloping land with three meters difference. The site was divided into three levels which the three main programs were placed : service and garage was placed on the highest level of the site, the living area on the middle, and the private spaces on the lowest. The three masses cascade down the site and thus giving the term cascading house.
Two courtyards were inserted between three masses to provide light and air for the interior. These later become essential feature as they create transitional spaces between masses and levels.
The skylights that were placed on entry area, stairs, and various rooms were provided to invite natural light for spaces that lack opening. The feature later creates varying rays and shadows as the day passes, naturally tells the passage of time inside the house.
A reflecting pool is added adjacent to the living room to bring cooler air into the house. It later utilize the sloping characteristic of the site to make the water flows down to become a waterfall, constantly creates splashing sound of water throughout the house.
As the house follows the topography of the site, it does not alter the form of the land. Thus it gives birth an architecture that respects the existing condition. The house also only uses concrete and wood as the main materials. Through simplicity, the continuity of materials creates a harmonious spatial experience throughout the building.
The house is characterized with 1.1m x 2.2 m concrete pattern that envelopes the whole building inside out. The pattern drives the way the masses are arranged vertically throughout the site. The concrete are also placed so that it continuously wrapping the building from the first mass all the way to the third mass. As the concrete pattern should be casted on site by wrapping the wall inside out, It become the most challenging part during the construction process. Later this was sorted out through rigorous approach by drawing every wall elevations and constant communication between architect and contractor.
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