Koran Tempo on Irman's House

Here's another review on Irman's House by Koran Tempo. The issue was to create an open contemporary house on a secluded site. The house actually can be reached through a 40 m entrance corridor, which creates a surprising sequence from tight entry to a spacious and sheltered reception. A series of openings after blocking walls was the concept in order to get the feeling of the 'openness'.

This was the main idea of what the ground floor should look and relate to other rooms.

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Musholla Al-Izzah

This was actually our last year project which made through Astro TV (Ruang Silaturrahmi) and IDEA (July 2007)publications. The project was later also nominated as IAI Jakarta's Award 2007. Hopefully we can attach the movie clip very soon.

It's a small project yet quite interesting for us, since it's located on abandoned roofdeck on top of an old building in FKG UI Salemba that might look like an alien, a parasite, or just a 'crown' for the faculty. The faculty needed an extra space for student praying room (musholla) above the dean's office, which was functioned as open storage, as well as a bridge between buildings. The problem was to create spacious room while the kiblat was heading perpendicular to circulation/entry corridor, and we had to separate the area for men and women.

As for the cover, we create a rather simple geometrical composition of circles, by using PVC and steel, to emphasize a contemporary 'arabesque' for the facade. This was also meant to protect the building to climate and yet it may still breathe through the skin, as to make a comfortable place to pray.

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Fatahillah Lighting Makeover

After the Jakarta's Old Town Revitalization Program was initiated on September 29,2007, the Fatahillah Museum as one of the Old Town's icon became the central of the first phase revitalization program, as well as Ceramic Museum, Central Station, Puppet Museum, Kota Intan bridge and the pedestrian areas surround them. The revitalization focuses on re-tracing the old pedestrian ways and plaza (Alun-alun), and re-creating the classic ambiance of the Old Town by assembling similar paving materials as well as the lighting poles and fixtures.

One of the important issue was to make such regulation for the lighting masterplan, since the government does not owns/functions most of the remaining buildings in the area, and there were already too many newer lighting fixtures mounted. Some of them are too modern, and some were put in the wrong spots. "It's harder to regulate private-own buildings to comply with the masterplan", as mentioned by Agust Danang Ismoyo, our lighting specialist who was working with PJU on the project. Fortunately, we don't have those issues on Fatahillah Museum, now that it has become one of the main attraction for nite tourism surround Jakarta's Old Town.

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Koran Tempo on MBRC

Last week, Koran Tempo covered one of our interior project in FISIP UI, Mirriam Budiardjo Resource Center (MBRC). The rocketing number of visitors was the main issue, since the renovation strategy was to create more warm and comforting ambiance for people to get information in the old FISIP's library, which was later known as a resource center. A slight change of interior atmosphere has indeed made significant impact on how people work or get their information there.

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IDEA covers Irman's House

Last July, IDEA has covered Irman's House for its special edition of 20 design inspirations, that mainly discuss many simple ideas that people can apply or have on their home. This edition focuses on dining area, along with its furnitures and layouts, where Irman's offers a semi-open terrace to the garden for family meals.

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