N House

Surabaya, Indonesia

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N House

Surabaya, Indonesia

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y0 Design Architect

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2023

SIZE

0 sqft - 1000 sqft

BUDGET

$50K - 100K

Memory. Our memories or spatial experiences of places we have visited tend to stick and can influence our perceptions in assessing the quality of a space or building.

Both in positive and negative ways.

This is the basis for homeowners and architects in their journey in determining the right idea for this residence.

The owner often travels abroad, to various countries, but his heart tends to always remember his visits to Kyoto.
Where Kyoto has a strong ambience of beautiful and peaceful life with the use of natural materials, especially things made from wood.
According to him, this can create a positive impact on improving his quality of life.

On this basis, when the owner plans to have a new residence, he wanted a feeling that is more or less the same as he experienced when inhaling the comfort and calm nuances of the city of Kyoto before.

This house was not designed from an empty site, but rather an old house that was renovated with approximately almost sixty percent of its original integrity.

By maintaining the grid and structure of the original house as much as possible, even though there are compensation for reducing and adding rooms, it is still designed that each room has good quality of natural lighting & ventilation.

The mass of the building is further emphasized by removing all the old front balconies of the house, and replacing them with dividers that are both reinforcement and affirmation of the existing wall grid.

This house deliberately doesn't want to present anything too complicated or modern, because the owner are elderly persons and prefer to feel a more synchronous harmony between the building and the interior of his house.

Simply by using genuine solid wood elements (merbau and bengkirai) or veneer, massively, it is hoped that the design produces a very strong bond with natural nuances and provides a warm feeling for the owner daily activities can be achieved.

A difficult point while doing this renovation is where we as architects have to ensure that the design presented is not something that is old-fashioned or rehearsed. But rather enhanching something that could be said to have been commonly used in house designs in the past.

This is quite challenging and also very fun to do in the case of this house design.

For closing, our most important task as architects is to make the users of our services happy as a whole through our designs and not just impose the architect's idealism alone for the sake of uniqueness.

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