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ARCHITECTURE / RESEARCH / SPACE
PROJECT 017
06°15'38.9"S 106°48'47.9"E
HOUSE 17 — JAKARTA, 2026
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PROJECT INDEX
Selected work, indexed by number, year and location.
6 completed projects since 2011, spanning residential, cultural and institutional work across Indonesia.
- 01HOUSE 172026JAKARTARESIDENTIAL2026 — JAKARTARESIDENTIAL
- 02TIMBER COURT2025BANDUNGRESIDENTIAL2025 — BANDUNGRESIDENTIAL
- 03CONCRETE COURTYARD2024BANDUNGCULTURAL2024 — BANDUNGCULTURAL
- 04LINES / LIGHT2025BALIHOSPITALITY2025 — BALIHOSPITALITY
- 05RESEARCH PAVILION2023YOGYAKARTAINSTITUTIONAL2023 — YOGYAKARTAINSTITUTIONAL
- 06ARCHIVE HALL2022SURABAYACULTURAL2022 — SURABAYACULTURAL
- 01ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING
- 02STRUCTURE
- 03MATERIAL
- 04BUILT SPACE
MATERIAL STUDIES
Five materials, used deliberately and repeatedly.
We work with a restrained material palette across every project, refined through direct experience rather than expanded for novelty.
MATERIAL 01
CONCRETE
- ORIGIN
- Site-mixed, local aggregate
- FINISH
- Board-formed, fair-face
- TEXTURE
- Matte, grain from formwork timber
- APPLICATION
- Structural walls, floor slabs, plinths
STUDIO PHILOSOPHY
Precision, materiality, process.
Every project moves through the same five-stage method — observe, define, draw, test, build — regardless of scale.
PROJECTS BUILT
YEARS PRACTICING
CORE MATERIALS
STUDIO PARTNERS
SELECTED PROJECTS
A closer look at recent work.
JOURNAL
Notes on material, process and research.
- MATERIAL2026.03
Concrete in the Tropics
Board-formed concrete was developed for temperate climates. Adapting the mix and curing schedule for Bandung's humidity took two years of test panels.
READ — J.05 - RESEARCH2025.11
Reading Brutalism in Java
A survey of late-1970s institutional concrete buildings across Java reveals a regional dialect of brutalism rarely discussed outside local practice.
READ — J.04
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