Recently, we have won the third place for designing the Jakarta Design Center (JDC) facade competition with a rather unusual concept of spatial facade.
Despite the old look of the building and surrounding's irregularity, people would still look for JDC as it has become the only high class design center in Jakarta. We can say, it has a role in the jakarta's design centers network. Thus, the new facade as representative layer is not the issue here.
We prefer to relate the high class value as luxury of which the surrounding people would experienced, socially and architecturally. A luxury that can be sensed as a scarcity in Jakarta; Luxury is clean among the slum; Luxury means distant rather than dense; Luxury means green among concrete. With the minimum budget of the project, we proposed a clean slope of active green garden that limits frontal view towards the building, as well as creates more space for people to interact to and for JDC, in order to gradually relate the people to design that close to their daily activities. A rare feeling to have during a busy day on one of the busiest junction in Jakarta.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
JDC's new Lux: Urban Scarcity
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Fit Properties on Irman's House
Last Tuesday (31/5/2007), one of the national property show from JakTV, Fit Properties, was covering one of our latest residential project located in Cilandak, Irman's House. The house was designed to look as if it has been on the site for quite a while, yet the contemporary ambiance is still felt by the owner by the use of tectonically exposed bricks and wood materials. Even so, the presence of greenery still dominates the house, which has become a luxury for those living in urban area.
Upcoming in 2007
We are currently working on several projects in UI, that hopefully can create more contemporary looks and atmosphere in our green campus.
The Faculty of Dentistry Masterplan; The faculty is one of two last faculty to move in from Salemba. A new concept of compactness as well as eco-friendly design was proposed to fit in to the southern part of campus Depok, with up to 3 mid-rise educational buildings, 2 low-rise labs, student center, and an interconnected yards and corridors to link them together. 
The MBRC extension Plan; An extension plan of the existing library (resource center) in FISIP UI, to be more accessible to campus members on the ground level. The plan was to be an integrated design with the central landscape, and 4 open terraces on each corner to hold many student activity related to the browsing informations. The new extension part then acts a virtual data center, complimentary to the existing on the upper floor.Wednesday, April 12, 2006
2001: The story begins...
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.
Sunday, April 02, 2006
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...
