Project Info:
Architecture: Ismail Solehudin Architecture
Lead Architect: Ismail Solehudin,
architectural design team: Ismail Solehudin, Muhammad Ibrahim
Contractor: TAM Construction
Area: 130m2
Year: 2019
Photographs: Muhammad Ibrahim
This house is in 90’s residential area of Bandung city, Indonesia. The owner and architect agreed to renovate as much as possible to maintain existing building elements while still creating a residence that has a better quality of space and delightfull house.
Changing the configuration of space is a way to have natural lighting and air for each room by adding a few inner courtyard between spaces.
Some of the old walls that were retained were deliberately made to look broken and old by peeling off layers of plaster and wall scrap. This is a sign that this new home is the result of a renovation design. The wall is an accent of this house combined with a skylight that is in the inner courtyard so that it appears more poetic when the texture of the brick wall is in direct contact with the skylight.
The existing roof which has many eaves has a shortage of leak-prone due to high rainfall, so modifications are made by making a saddle roof that can drain rain water more easily but the old roof structure is still largely maintained.
The kitchen area, family room and main room are designed with a view orientation towards the backyard is quite spacious, the terraces are made long enough to shade the inner spaces made as a semi outdoor / terrace room with the function of the dining room area and a place to enjoy the back courtyard.
As a manifest of environmental concern, reuse of existing building materials combined with secondhand local materials. We re-apply like the wooden jamb and floor from demolished old buildings that are widely available in Bandung, not forgetting the application of the passive design concept.