Standing on an almost square land area of 240 square meters, DAK House is oriented towards the axis of the east sun, which makes the architect think that the morning sunlight can be optimized to be able to enter the main rooms, therefore, the architect places the position of the main rooms facing one axis is east, such as the living room, dining room, main room, work room, gathering room, balcony
DAK House has an L-shaped building mass composition, this is intended so that the placement of the garden desired by the owner is large enough, the activities of children playing in the garden have been the main idea since the beginning of this house being designed, besides that, the owner also wants the dining room to be the center of attention that can be opposite the park, so this park at DAK House becomes a marker or meeting point for all of its activities.
By carrying out many openings, indicating that DAK House responds well to problems in housing that stands on an area with an extreme tropical climate, the garden in the middle helps to facilitate wind pressure that is channeled into the living spaces of this house, the garden in front becomes the wind catching room because the wind usually comes on the south side of the house, it is captured by the garden in this house so that it can be properly distributed into the house through these many openings, the wind catching method is made using the garden method as a low pressure center, it can be described as the front road The house is a wind tunnel that shows the wind moving freely without direction, trapped through the wall next to the garden which is high enough for the wind to turn towards the garden, then in the middle area of the garden the wind is made to rotate looking for the lowest point to be able to distribute its wind direction, then the wind is trapped into the house through the opening and rotated into the house h, if the amount of wind that enters is large enough, then the wind is trapped to enter the house on the 2nd floor, on the 2nd floor which is always connected by the 1st floor with the central garden, with various voids that are on average small in size where their function is to trap the wind from various corners of the house.
DAK House itself carries a contemporary tropical architectural style, its use of material elements also looks simple, with a combination of exposed brick and bare concrete on the façade and a little black and white nuances on some of the façade walls, and there is a gable roof with an extreme slope just to make an tropical impression which is now getting thicker.
This project for the architect is quite personal, because the design stage is carried out in linearly with the progress of the construction of this house. All teams are involved in the existence of their minds, both from owners, architect, interior designer, landscape designer and even the team of workers who are not left out of the contribution of ideas in designing at every stage, from the selection of floor covering material elements to paint, from placing light points to types plants, architects only come up with big ideas