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Folded Rooms Garden / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Folded Rooms Garden is an experimental residential intervention located within a compact urban pocket in Bandung, Indonesia. The project challenges the conventional reliance on vertical partition walls, proposing instead a fluid sequence of living environments seamlessly integrated with the landscape.

Tanatap Frame Garden / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)

Hana Abdel — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Frame Garden Café called Tanatap is another iteration prototype of a multi-leveled greenspace with dynamic platforms that rise and fall to create a walkable roofscape that acts as an extension for the public to enjoy the public parks from a better and grander perspective. Pursuing a façade-less architecture, the design was started with the question, what if the flexibility of community activities, art exhibitions, and garden spaces acted as an unlimited permutation of functional façade that defined the space and shaped the identity of the architecture itself? The design was to demonstrate a selfless approach to creating many sheltered indoor spaces hidden within a simple multi-leveled garden. Spaces that were created became a sequential space and were not an initial space.

Lattice Creative Garden / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 03:00:00 +0000

The latticework principle, having been essential in the hot, humid tropical climate of Indonesia for hundreds of years, is a key identity component for essential climate control and a brilliant example of bioclimatic design. When readapted with greater design freedom and flexibility through dual coding (function and symbolism), the lattice becomes a modern, high-performing shading device that simultaneously serves as a visually rich, contextually relevant screen recalling local architectural experimentation in sustainability.

Coconut Wellness Garden / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)

Miwa Negoro — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 21:00:00 +0000

Coconut Wellness Garden's mission was to create a unique yoga center that evokes feelings and experiences while adhering to the standards of equitable use. The site stands out with its serene and natural material palette, characterized by the simplicity and elegance of minimalist construction techniques. To provide users with an unforgettable tactile experience, materials that reflect the aesthetics and vibes of the island, such as reinforced in-situ rammed earth, timber, and locally sourced natural limestone, were used in unconventional ways to complement the serene beauty of the existing landscape.

Shelters on Slope (SS) Garden / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Shelters on Slope (SS) Garden is a project consisting of four shelters strategically situated atop a sunken, layered garden in the bustling heart of Jakarta's business district. These shelters are enveloped by a sloped green roof garden that accommodates a variety of commercial activities.

Sagehaus Office Garden / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 03:00:00 +0000

This project aimed to resolve the paradox of balancing two objectives: maintaining a flexible and creative blank canvas of possibilities on one hand, and providing a secure and efficient learning and working environment on the other. The design strategy creates three visually connected horizontal zones: a public space for combined creative and social activities below, effective and controlled office environments in the middle, and a flexible public garden activity on the rooftop above.

Attic Above Garden House / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)

Miwa Negoro — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 06:00:00 +0000

What if the attic and roofing characteristics become the identity and façade of a renovated house? Attic above garden consists of four introverted volumetric masses that float above a lush landscape, creating inverted spaces between the volumes.

Tanatap Heritage Garden / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)

Valeria Silva — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Tanatap Heritage Garden is a small architectural intervention that transformed a once-mediocre vertical building, which stood as a barrier in Braga's heritage shophouse, into a creative melting pot that celebrates its historical significance. The project's main challenge from the outset was to apply primary methods for the adaptive reuse of an existing Dutch heritage shophouse structure, converting it into a restaurant and coffee shop situated in the middle of a block on Braga Street, Bandung. The shed, originally a warehouse, provided us with the opportunity to work with many original elements inherited from its previous uses, such as existing frames, walls, and facades.

Sanctuary Tunnel Garden / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The 'Light and Truth at the End of the Tunnel' inspired project aims to explore how religious architecture is evolving by incorporating modernist influences in spatial design while preserving its spiritual essence. These interventions replace or complement the intricate ornamentation and natural materials traditionally associated with sacred spaces by showcasing the raw beauty of its pristine site.

Chicken Hero Pavilion / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)

Miwa Negoro — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Located in the hilly garden of Urban Forest Jakarta, this pavilion humbly blends into the landscape, resembling another hill in the park. It features a cave-like tunnel that offers free, inclusive education and entertainment, known as the Chicken coop. The Chicken Hero pavilion is an evocative yet provocative self-initiated approach by RAD+ar to inspire independent backyard poultry farming. This initiative aims to reduce household and community food waste, addressing Indonesia's significant challenge as the runner-up in global food loss and waste, with an estimated 1.6 million tonnes, or approximately 300 kg per person annually.

Pusaran Ocean Deck / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)

Hana Abdel — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Pusaran is an experiment aimed at understanding how to construct a space in the middle of the ocean using only reclaimed ironwood in its vernacular system. Located on a private island in the Karimun Jawa archipelago, the client wanted to expand their existing shark observation pool into more tourist-friendly spaces despite the challenging site that is generally considered unsuitable for construction without any intervention to the ocean floor.

Aruma Split Garden / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)

Hana Abdel — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:00:00 +0000

In the challenge of rising land values, the Split garden was created as a study of how split-level design can evolve, creating distinct zones within a compound of multiple tenants while incorporating nature within the built environment in a relatively compact footprint. The iteration of the design reflects RAD+ar's search for significance and evolving roles in optimizing circulation.

Tanatap Wall Garden Café Restaurant and Bar / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)

Hana Abdel — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Wall garden was created as a reflection from RAD+ar on the search of significance and evolving roles of walls in contemporary architectural practice, in which the designer is experimenting on how walls contribute to the overall aesthetic and functionality of buildings in showcasing innovative use of walls in shaping spaces and its integration with existing nature.

Stalk Tree-hugger Bar / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)

Valeria Silva — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 02:00:00 +0000

Stalk, the Tree Hugger is a project comprising five 30-meter-tall existing trees in the heart of Jakarta’s busiest business district, being wrapped and clothed into a canvas of light and shadows that host multiple functions of commercial activities. The architect was to experiment with space creation by creating a simple architecture of a parametric cloth that hugs existing greeneries, creating many variations of closure enclosures of the space.

Hidden Garden House / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)

Hana Abdel — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 18:00:00 +0000

The house is located in the Menteng area, the most prestigious heritage residential area surrounded by 360 dense mix used business districts. The challenge was to rethink the status quo and needs for a typical stereotyping - glamorous and arrogant Menteng houses. In the process of responding to this quest, the architect breaks the scale of internal massing and the composition of empty spaces in between, the roof is divided into parallel bands of open sky garden in an alternating sequence overlapped mezzanine to create a diagonal loop of sky circulations.

Tanatap Ring Garden Coffee Shop / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)

Hana Abdel — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Ring Garden Café called Tanatap is a small prototype of a multi-leveled greenspace with dynamic platforms that rise and fall to create a walkable roofscape. The structure will be connected to create a series of floating amphitheaters surrounding green spaces and tropical outdoor activities in the middle.

Bernaung House / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)

Hana Abdel — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Bernaung means the act of sheltering, the very DNA that was imprinted within tropical belt inhabitants, long before we embraced the concept of a house. The name emphasizes how easy it was to live in the tropics, and that reaching sustainability is nothing but achieving comfort with the least energy required. The design was to rearrange all the user’s activity during the day and cycle it into as a loop within a giant roof hovering above it. Atrium as the center of the houses acted both as a visual direction and wind chimney to ensure a cross and stacked effect for natural ventilation.

Tanatap Canopy Garden Café and Restaurant / RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)

Hana Abdel — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Canopy garden celebrates its visible condition by being as open and transparent as possible. The building was nothing more than just a double multi-axial pigmented concrete plate, floating above the garden. A very light feeling produced from shell stressed structure creates a series of seating areas on the roof that also shapes the space on the ground floor as the extension of the garden itself.