ARCANAJOURNAL
Notes on material, process and research.
Published irregularly, written directly by the design team — not a marketing feed.
- 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 - PROCESS2025.07
The Cost of a Cantilever
A nine-hundred-millimetre roof cantilever on House 17 added four percent to the structural budget. Here is exactly where that number came from.
READ — J.03 - PROCESS2025.02
Notes from a Demolition
Before Timber Court was built, an existing structure had to be selectively opened up. What we found inside changed the foundation design.
READ — J.02 - MATERIAL2024.09
Designing with Glass and Heat
Low-iron glass and low-reflectance coatings gave Lines / Light its clarity — and a solar-heat problem we did not fully solve until the third revision.
READ — J.01
