2001: The story begins...

After some changes in the terms of reference by the owner, a student canteen of FISIP UI had finally set to be built in October 2001. As fresh designers we weren’t easily satisfied by the quality of short-term design, thus when the project started then the development design should also continue until the time it had to be built. We realize that when a design emerges as a collaboration of spirited designer and owner, in the end the user would feel the same spirit as the creators.

The concept for the student canteen was “behind bushes”, taken from the name of the site adjacent where the old food stalls are located. A spirit of informality, dynamic movement, and restoration inside a formally campus guidelines. A new atmosphere was then emerged from FISIP's environment that enlivened its social interaction. Surprisingly for us, the project has granted us another achievement as the best campus facility in the Indonesian Architects Institue (IAI) Award in 2002.

While others were developing the design of student canteen at FISIP, one of us was handling one residential project which gave more complete experience for us in construction projects. This was actually what we have planned to have in our first 3 years of working together, each to experience a complete project in order to have sufficient skill in the field of built environment.

The project was to completely renovate the whole house by tearing down the old building and build a new one on the same site. A 3-storey house of 400 m2 owned by dr.Sugito was then designed, built, and supervised, down from the sub-structures, up to the roof and skylight. No matter how complicated the project, a design concept should be applied in terms of characterize the building, especially a residential project. In this case, the concept was an eclectic renovation that combines old furniture inside a contemporary tropical house.

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2000:From Scratch...

A start from scratch made us to open ourselves in a vast field of designs. Architecture, interior, graphic, comics, web, and even exhibition stand design, you name it. We even have created some pictures for greeting cards. From these we believed that eventually we could realize our own characters.

After doing some drawings for other consultants or students for their final projects, we were offered a renovation task on faculty toilets. A place that infamously attracts designer to work on, but there is where it all started for pavilion.

A thorough design and construction, down from the plumbing system, up to the floor and ceiling patterns, as much as we could do on a tight budget of campus buildings. Each of us responsible of designing up to the details of each toilet, and since there were no other projects to do then the priority obviously focused on one toilet project.

As fresh graduates, we were lucky to have almost unlimited opportunity on designing such projects, since the owner might felt there were nothing much to do in renovating an old and dirty toilets anyway. But that meant a lot for us, because it gave us chance to show something else, a different point of view, to enter a designed public toilet for campus people.

There were 3 different locations in the campus, and each consisted of 2 storeys. One of the locations was inside the dean's office of the faculty that attracts the higher faculty officers, that in time would certainly put us on another promising projects....the student cafeteria of Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Indonesia. The story begins...

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