Nelson House / TWS & Partners
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Jul 2009
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Architect: TWS & Partners
Location: Indonesia
Principal in charge: Tonny W Suriadjaja
Project team: Inge, Budi Setiawan, Grace Dian, Arianto
Client: Private
Structural engineers: Purwa
Lighting design: TWS & Partners
Landscape design: Niken Larasati
Main contractor: Tan Sie Siong
Land area: 700 sqm
Constructed area: 750 sqm
Design year: 2007
Construction year: 2007-2008
Photographs: Fernando Gomulya
Architectural concept
- To swap the semi private living room area from rear to front part of the land. In doing this, the living will have a “borrowed” view to the adjacent public park.
- To elevate the main “ground” floor which consist of living, swimming pool and garden to 3 (three) meter above street level, also to maximize the view to surrounding park.
- To give a big, tropical “hat” to the building as a sunshade to the master bedroom at the second floor.
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I might be wrong but the maids rooms are about the size of the masters bed!! and as far as I could read from the plans, they don’t even have windows.
Maybe I should simply open a catalog about Richard Neutra and look at the same details without feeling nauseous.
And the maids don’t even have a bathroom. Just a toilet.
Seems pretty typical. At least the maids have their own rooms (and they do have windows… facing straight into a wall). Their bathroom probably has a showerhead right over the toilet. That aside… this building… yuck.
The mastersuite is so disgustingly big that besides the maids i feel sorry for the children.
Child: Mom, why is your closet bigger than my room?
Mom: Don’t worry about it.
:P
all the lines and planes… and materials. Is it just me? or does it seem like there is a bit too much going on in some of these interior shots. my eye doesn’t know where to look! i also feel that the proportion of spaces isn’t so balanced— or maybe i’m just taken away by the size of that master suite. whatever the client desires i suppose.
that’s a house for some rich kid,… i like the master stateroom.
Sometimes people have too much money….and this is what happens……….
no character, no passion, no detail… so what is this?
I’d say it’s a fairly good attempt already, considering all the humongous pseudo-classical bungalows built around every corner in the wealthier areas of Indonesia.
expensive house, cheap design..
wow 4 cars!!!
that’s the long-lasting issue in Indonesian architecture I suppose. big scale, excessive material, insensitive design and thoughtless owners!!
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