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Beyond The Courtyard House / RCAB Studio

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 02:00:00 +0000

Located on a 407-square-meter corner lot within a residential neighborhood in Jakarta, the house occupies a privileged position directly facing a mature public park shaded by large tropical trees. Rather than treating the surrounding greenery as a distant backdrop, the design embraces it as an extension of the living environment, allowing the landscape beyond the site boundary to become part of everyday life. The client envisioned a home that is filled with natural light, enjoys excellent cross ventilation, and maintains a strong connection with nature. Beyond environmental comfort, they aspired to create a residence where steel, timber, and landscape coexist harmoniously to produce an atmosphere that is both contemporary and warmly domestic. Reflecting the owner's background in the steel industry, exposed steel elements become an integral part of the architectural identity while remaining balanced by softer natural materials.

House of Dentist Couple / RCAB Studio

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:00:00 +0000

This is a private house in Jakarta, Indonesia, for a dentist couple with 2 kids. The site is a typical rectangular shape, with both sides and the rear of the house closed off from the neighboring houses, and no ventilation or sunlight can be expected from the side openings. The front façade faces neighboring houses. Despite these challenges, homeowners desire a home that feels open and lush with greenery.

Wood.White House / RCAB Studio

Andreas Luco — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 01:00:00 +0000

Situated as its next-door neighbor of the old house, this project started out as a landscape project as an extension of the old one and continued into building an entirely new house next door to elevate its old one. The old house has a classic style of architecture, that was crowded with masses and lack of greeneries. Instead of making duplication of the old house design, we explore the ideas of contrast to give the new house and its users a complete change of experience. The challenge that arises was to combine two houses in one lot into one harmonious unity. Ideas of fusing wood materials and the color white to be incorporated in the design were what became the main concept of the house. The newly built garden between the two houses added a facade area and new openings to the old house to improve air circulation and invites natural light. Some water features, such as a swimming pool and koi pond were added to create a tropics ambiance on top of the serene shading by the Brazilian fire tree.