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Jae Jiwa Jae Kasinda Bungalows / RDMA

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 01:00:00 +0000

Located around 45 minutes from the city center of Bandung, Indonesia, nestled on top of a sloping contour overlooking a valley surrounded by lush hills, the Jiwa villa was designed to be an escape from the hustle and bustle of urban life. Various species of wood, concrete bricks, and black-painted steels are chosen as the primary materials for the three-story villa in order to blend in with the surrounding environment as well as give guests the chance to break away from their daily routines and unwind. The villa was designed to accommodate three renting scenarios where guests can book the large studio room on the first floor; rent two junior suites on the third floor along with living space on the second; or book all three floors at once to accommodate larger groups.

Melt House / RDMA

Hana Abdel — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 22:00:00 +0000

With a futuristic design jutting out of a rooftop garden, this three-story, three-bedroom house in Bandung City, Indonesia is a project like no other. The client wished for a one-of-a-kind, sleek, and modern-looking house while being faithful to the ancient Chinese traditional geomancy practice of Feng Shui. Due to ancient wisdom, before the design process began, the site was divided into nine equal sections, representing the eight cardinal points and their center.

Ton Villas / RDMA

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 18:00:00 +0000

Featuring four guest houses and two spacious meeting halls overlooking a giant fishpond, the Ton Villas were designed for a client who likes to entertain large groups of people. The 3,500sqm property also features a large dining area and a lounge where guests can get together and mingle through games and music.

Blackbird Hotel / RDMA

Hana Abdel — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 23:00:00 +0000

The Drum Room - Located in a 200sqm garden of an existing hotel, the client wished to build three cabins on the property which would serve as honeymoon suites. Adding to the challenge was the fact that the existing hotel had to remain open to guests during construction and thus noise and the flow of workers and materials to and from the site must be kept to a minimum. Wood is the primary material chosen for the project to avoid the need for a wet construction which might be unsightly for the staying guests of the hotel. The use of a wide range of wood with different shades of brown also provided some much-needed textures and complementary colors to the otherwise mostly white, existing buildings.

Cube House / RDMA

Hana Abdel — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 03:00:00 +0000

This house is located in the land of factory area with one big main road inside as a connection. Because of the context, privacy is the main issue and relates with the living quality. By the specific requirement from the client, a sense of privacy must be achieved without fence or fortress. The space is defined by using a layering method to generate high privacy yet un-massive border.

Lenora Hotel / RDMA

Valeria Silva — Thu, 07 May 2020 06:00:00 +0000

The project is a rework of an on-going hotel construction from the previous design that actually has already in topping-off position. Basically the client wanted to recompose the almost finish facade to seamlessly connect all the seemingly undesired result, such as the very obvious four balconies exposed from the main road, and to tackle groups of air-con machine stick to the perimeter wall exposed from the side road.

House of the Second Narration / RDMA

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 20:00:00 +0000

When you do a half done building that needs recomposing on basically everything in it, then a strategy should be done seamlessly to connect all the given conditions, the problem arose after, the new expectation from the client, first before the new architect give any aesthetic agenda in it.

White Cliff House / RDMA

Daniel Tapia — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 22:00:00 +0000

On a sloppy narrow land measuring 6,5 x 25 meter, 3 programs were built within steps and planter boxes arranged naturally as a hardscape stretched from the lowest to the highest point of the land. They are 2 lofts serves as guest houses and a 2 story house for the property owner at the top. The unfriendly 30 degrees contour created more than 10 meter height differences between facades that emerged from the two roads attached at both ends of the stretch, and it was in fact treated as the site power which brought up into the site planning as the major theme of how the building masses should perform and interact within each other.

SIXPAX HQ / RDMA

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The briefwas to create a maximum enclosure out of an existing two storey pitch roof house to contain a clothing shop plus an administration office forming a headquarter of a local Bandung clothing company SIXPAX.