![Wood Box House / Indra Tata Adilaras - Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5038/358f/28ba/0d59/9b00/140b/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414200639)
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Architects: Indra Tata Adilaras
- Area: 334 m²
- Year: 2009
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Photographs:Sjahrial Iqbal/ Griya Asri
Text description provided by the architects. The Wood Box House is situated on a 11.7m x 25 m plot in a middle-class housing neighborhood in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia that has a high precipitation rate and mild temperatures. The climate is ideal for outdoor activities and the architects of Indra Tata Adilaras addressed the challenge of a house that could provide both indoor and outdoor spaces in a seamless design.
More images and information after the break.
![Wood Box House / Indra Tata Adilaras - Table, Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5038/3567/28ba/0d59/9b00/1403/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1414200642)
Rather than to offer typical layout for the typical plot, the architects first strictly classify programs into two boxes: a massive box for well partitioned private areas and services that would include bedrooms, kitchen, maid quarter, bathrooms, and a garage and a transparent box for open common areas including the living, dining, studio, and circulation areas.
![Wood Box House / Indra Tata Adilaras - Table, Chair, Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5038/355d/28ba/0d59/9b00/1401/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414200645)
The massive box is an entirely concrete construction, finely plastered and painted, whereas the transparent box is a steel construction clad with glass and vertical layers of local teak-plants – a common technique in contemporary tropical building construction.
![Wood Box House / Indra Tata Adilaras - Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5038/3551/28ba/0d59/9b00/13fe/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414200648)
The strategy is to combine the two boxes to form an intermediary space that articulates the transparent box into well defined spaces for various activities. The transparent box is both a double-height interior space for the family to share, as well a shelter for an open-air tropical verandah.
![Wood Box House / Indra Tata Adilaras - Table, Facade, Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5038/354b/28ba/0d59/9b00/13fd/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1414200651)
The base of the transparent box is bound by a built-in concrete slab that can perform as a seating platform, table or staircase with built-in storage compartments. The platform is integrated with a koi pond and a raised garden to provide a feeling of being slightly underground.