Muted House / Aboday Architects
Architect: Aboday Architects
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
Main Contractor: PT. Batu Kali
Site area: 260 sqm
Built up Area: 300 sqm
Photography: Happy Lim
Strategically located in Kebayoran Baru, this family home sit on a 260 sqm land next to a busy connecting street that sometimes jam pack during the office peak hour. Albeit its proximity to the Jakarta Central Bussines District, the site is clearly not an ideal choice for a household with 3 grown up children.
site plan
The need of an ample space for children playground and activity spaces are the main challenge that has to be adressed in the design of this abode. The house itself –as requested by client – doesn’t have to scream “identity”. Fronting it is a distinctly muted angular prism facade painted in a textured warm grey surface, set back 5 meter away from the main road. Peppered with random tiny square glass box in one side, the facade is as austere as the all starck white internal wall surface.
What lacking on the front yard (as a playground) is substituted in the inside. To create a space that can be used as an indoor playground, architect split the house into 2 main blocks. The gap of 4.5 meter between these 2 blocks resulting in a lofty voids of 12 meter in heights, above the 3 meter width ‘bridge’ connecting the 2 separate blocks. This bridge, overlooking the dining room below, is an airy and bright space (thanks to the skylight above) that connects the pantry to the children’s room which seen itself as a floating playground. The high ceiling itself prove very useful to generate air movement, eliminating unecessary use of Air Condition system. With an internal window open from all bedrooms to the central lofty voids, the principal of borrowing space is fully utilized here, to create a visually larger bedrooms for the family. During the day, children will fill this internal space with activities and laughter, while at night the lofty ceiling helps to regulate fresh air, reducing Jakarta’s warm and balmy weather.
The tapered site filled with rectangular form of the house, resulting in a residual space in front of an open family room. This space is rather wide nearing the end of the site, enough to fit in a 2 meter width plunge pool for the children. This 1 meter depth pool with blue mosaic internal wall and overflow water toward its 12 mm tempered glass wall perimeter, creates a shooting ambient for the rooms next to it.
The rear block, 1 storey higher than the front block, containing a full 2 storey master bedroom. The window of this master bedroom overlook the small alley behind the site with a view of Central Business District as it main attraction. The chamfered edge at the peak of its slopping ceiling eliminating edges on its surface, creating a visually larger and brighter space.
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RT @nicholaspatten: I’d Live Here: Muted House. http://bit.ly/1H9hp cool house
I love the contrast of the brickwall with the other white walls.
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design is good, but the photos are teribble
Aaahh. bagusss! @lerianesque kantor lo sih gaya bang! lo megang ini ga? RT @archdaily: Muted House / Aboday Architects http://bit.ly/LUrsN
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lim would not be happy with your comment, novan.
minimalismo y limpieza, muy bueno
RT @hpdarchitecture Nice forms and spaces – Muted House / Aboday Architects #architecture http://bit.ly/3h5lQz
agree with you mem and novan!
YEP BETTER PICTURES WILL BE GREAT
SALUDOS!
nice,,
another design from aboday in archdaily…
this one seems hygienic.
I wish we culd see more sections and plans…
Completely agree, would LOVE to see more drawings if it’s a possibility!!!
this is nice.. spaces well connected,seems alive and give many possibilities..
Like the recently posted Singapore renovation, this project deftly uses a single plant – this time a tree on the outside – to soften the hard, starkly-colored surfaces of the home. I wish there was similar softening agent on the inside, but otherwise think the project is not bad indeed.
gue pernah ke sini, ruangnya ok kok
cuma detail kurang rapih
gimana caranya biar karya arsitektur kita nampang di archdaily ya?
Love how this house with limited garden on small site next to busy road was designed as playground for the children.. http://bit.ly/2h0tdt
please, do something with those breaks!
This architecture looks good only in distant, guess the details are not coming in the first place.
Learn somethin from Japanese architect such as Suppose or Sanaa pleaseee.
hope this not represent Indonesian architecture
i like white but this is waay to much
Muted House by Aboday Architecture http://bit.ly/3h5lQz
http://www.archdaily.com/32509/muted-house-aboday-architects/
before i read the comment above, i would like to make a mundane comment, that is the building design looked very Japanese contemporary…!big have the same point of view with me!Besides, as mention in the statement ‘…the site is clearly not an ideal choice for a household with 3 grown up children…’, is it because the area is a crime-prone area??? Let the kid explore their lovely neighborhood in their way will probably help the kid grow up in a healthier way instead of fence up the building, building great wall and choose not to communicate with the neighbor!
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3:44 AM Jan 11th
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