ARCANAPROJECT 017
House 17
Kemang, South Jakarta
06°15'38.9"S 106°48'47.9"E
- LOCATION
- Kemang, South Jakarta
- YEAR
- 2026
- AREA
- 420 m²
- PROGRAM
- Single-family residence
- STATUS
- BUILT
- CLIENT
- Private client
- ARCHITECT
- ARCANA Studio
CONCEPT
House 17 begins from a single question: how little wall does a roof need to feel supported? The plan sets a solid service volume against a glazed living volume, then lets a flat concrete slab bridge the two, cantilevering nine hundred millimetres past the structure below it. The result is a section that stays legible from any point in the garden — the roof is always visibly doing the work of a roof.
A single-family house organised around a cantilevered roof plane that reads as one continuous gesture from street to garden.
DRAWINGS
Plan, elevation, section, detail.
MATERIALS USED
Selected from the studio's library.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Construction and detail.
“The house is not a container for rooms; it is a roof plane, a ground plane, and the air held precisely between them.”
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