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Nyrenstone Estate / Alexis Dornier

Valeria Silva — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Nyrenstone Estate – Alexis Dornier interprets topography through circles and tangents at Tampah Hills, Lombok. Positioned on one of the steepest slopes of Tampah Hills in South Lombok, Nyrenstone Estate is shaped less by convention and more by circumstance. The house follows the fall of the land, stepping down the hill while tracing a geometry of circles and tangents that define both spatial arrangement and overall character.

Villa Omah Prana Payangan / Alexis Dornier

Miwa Negoro — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Villa Omah Prana is a circular home in the highlands of Payangan. The project follows one clear idea: a ring-shaped plan that places all rooms along the perimeter, orienting them toward the surrounding landscape. The living room opens up to both the courtyard and the exterior, creating a fluid transition, while the more private spaces — bedrooms and enclosed areas — remain air-conditioned and sheltered.

AKASHI Residence / Alexis Dornier

Hana Abdel — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Akashi Residence: A Celebration of Playfulness and Movement - Set in the scenic village of Pererenan, Bali, Akashi Residence is a thoughtfully designed six-bedroom home that combines modern architectural principles with a spirit of creativity and exploration. The house is defined by its bold central void, an architectural centerpiece that brings natural light, air, and a sense of openness into the heart of the home.

Rumah Tresna / Alexis Dornier + Ida Bagus Oka

Hana Abdel — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Alexis Dornier Makings has completed "Rumah Tresna," a private residence inn located in Bali. The residence, designed by Alexis Dornier, features reclaimed timber sourced from historical structures such as old railroad tracks, bridges, and sunken ships. This choice of materials is part of an effort to utilize sustainable resources, adding a unique historical element to the structure's aesthetic.

Freebird Residence / Alexis Dornier

Hana Abdel — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Alexis Dornier Makings is proud to announce the completion of 'The Free Bird Project,' a private residence in Berawa, Bali, that seamlessly blends contemporary Japanese design with tropical modernism. This innovative home reflects architect Alexis Dornier’s commitment to integrating built environments with nature.

The Loop Residence / Alexis Dornier

Hadir Al Koshta — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 07:00:00 +0000

A Captivating Spiral Sculpture House Redefines Living in Bali's Jungle - As an architect, I embarked on a daring and transformative journey to create a residence that breaks free from conventional living and embraces the spirit of freedom in Bali's lush jungle. Commissioned with a simple yet profound brief - "We have lived in boxes our entire life - we now seek the opposite" - I set out to craft an architectural masterpiece that defies gravity and captivates the human spirit.

Lost Lindenberg Guest House / Alexis Dornier + Studio Jencquel

Hana Abdel — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Architecture - Alexis Dornier and Studio Jencquel are responsible for LOST’s architecture. “The main idea was to create an unusual, dreamy experience in the midst of a mystical jungle. We imagined spaces and walkways high off the ground. Constructed beside tall coconut trees, the staggered towers provide a glimpse of the sea in front. The towers are connected by a so-called Highline, an elevated walkway pointing towards the sea. We wanted to give the feeling of walking in a different world, of resting on a floating ship, elevated and safe, with the wild jungle at your doorstep. Grouped close together, the towers form a quasi village in the trees, a small floating society. LOST is designed with great attention to detail, with examples of the traditional contrasted with exaggerations. The predominant material is sustainably-sourced wood in various patterns and directions, the floors are covered with Bali green stone, and brass is used as an accent in the whole composition. With LOST we move in a dream world, somewhere between fiction and reality.” (Alexis Dornier)

Bird Houses / Alexis Dornier

Hana Abdel — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 01:00:00 +0000

A group of friends joined forces to build their dream of a floating village surrounded by a tropical forest in the heart of Bali. The project is composed of three stilted structures encompassing a shared pool and sundeck space designed through fluid shapes such as walkways, water features, and flower beds.

The Wing Residence / Alexis Dornier

Hana Abdel — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 04:00:00 +0000

The design intention was to create a structure that sits well in its surrounding, integrates into the vernacular context of the side, and stands for something unseen yet experimental. We aimed to advocate for an architecture that experiments and blends different ideas into one unconventional and particular form. The roof’s main characteristic formulates the gradual fade between an A-frame and a box- symbols for the traditional and the contemporary.

The Barn / Alexis Dornier

Hana Abdel — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This building is in all its major components made of ethically sourced reclaimed timber (kaltimber). The 16 unevenly bent and twisted columns were once part of a road leading over swampland in Kalimantan/ Borneo.

Bond House / Alexis Dornier

Hana Abdel — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 07:00:00 +0000

The cross is one of the oldest diagrams of space organization in architectural history. Bond is designed through the interplay of intersecting elements coming together to shape plane-fields for gathering and recreation on all levels- a junction that unifies elements traveling in all directions. This work of lines frames the lush surrounding and forms no obstacle to the eye that is free for gazing.

Haus Flora / Alexis Dornier

Hana Abdel — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 19:00:00 +0000

This 4 bedroom bungalow is submerged into it’s surrounding - the picturesque landscape with rice fields, coconut and palm trees of Bali sets the scene for an understated architecture with surprise. The family home consists of rooms that are separated by greenery and lush foliage. Building elements such as pillars, windows, and walls become visually entangled with trees and bushes, fountains and sculptures - and blend into one memorable event.

Alpha House / Alexis Dornier

Valeria Silva — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 07:00:00 +0000

This two-story building is a stack of two distinctive expressions of architectural ideas. The ground floor is articulated as a simple box volume that holds the living room, kitchen, foyer and garage. It acts as the pedestal for the above.

River Studio / Alexis Dornier

Andreas Luco — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Initially being one of a three unit ensemble, the river studio is a 1 bedroom minimal home, a response to a few constraints and opportunities surrounding the lot shape. Being of extremely narrow nature, the lot required to contain the access road to the main house – as a consequence of that we occupied the space on top of the driveway by cantilevering the small studio bedroom component over it, and created an upstairs.

River House / Alexis Dornier

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 07:00:00 +0000

The river house is a five-bedroom residential home located in Pererenan, Bali. Private spaces are grouped into a cubistic volume that seemingly hovers above the living rooms and the garden of the premises. An expansive pool forms a strong vector into the adjacent rice field - a graphic juxtaposition to the first floor’s horizontal configuration.

Lift Treetop Boutique Hotel / Alexis Dornier

Andreas Luco — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Lift is a small experimental treetop boutique hotel located in a suburb of Ubud and Bali. Our architecture studio is in close proximity to it, and the beginnings of the project were a testing ground for ideas on how to lift structures off the ground, to have a less invasive footprint and impact, more cost effective and faster to build.

Butterfly House / Alexis Dornier

Andreas Luco — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Architecture as an experiment in form of designing a 4 bedroom off the ground structure on stilts. The plan figure of the house is a cross that is surrounded by a circle. The cross is the primary building component, where as the circle is the secondary. This circle holds programs such as the atelier, the pool, the sound studio and back of house program. The living room becomes the continuous landscape brought through the underneath of the sculpture, and is the heart of the circle. The primary building component is the elevated cross, where each of it’s 4 ends hold rooms that point into different directions, framing specific views into the vicinity.

Cliff Front 7 (WT Carbon House) / Alexis Dornier

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The overall design is a result of applied challenges through plot boundaries amongst the natural landscape. This tropical modern villa consists of 4 bedrooms and maintains a consistent palette of 100-plus year-old reclaimed teak from Java, reclaimed ironwood from Kalimantan, andesite, terrazzo, local limestone, and floor to ceiling windows.