05/07/2025
Personalized House ๐ฅ๐ก in Jakartha, Indonesia.
Architects: Gets Architects
Area: 1030 m2
One of the client's foremost requests for the Steric Spes was a house that offers both shade and seclusion, without compromising natural light and airflow. Situated on a west-facing site, the design responds to the brief with a nuanced and responsive facade: a secondary skin of cream-colored fiber-cement breeze-block, which is composed of a grid-like pattern across the house. This permeable facade filters harsh western sunlight while facilitating air circulation throughout the house by acting as a protective veil. Moreover, it screens from the surrounding urban context and also creates a private space that is further set back to achieve a sense of retreat and calmness.
Material continuity and tectonic coherence are essential to the architectural language of the Steric Spes. The cream-colored fiber-cement breeze-block elements continue across the upper three levels, forming volumes that are stacked and shifted, each leaning toward the right side. Not only does this dynamic composition allow 90% of the house to remain detached from the neighboring structure, but it also enhances the sense of interplay while maintaining formal cohesion.
The result is a house that breathes, maintaining thermal comfort and luminosity with an ever-changing shadowplay throughout the day.Moreover, many areas are shaded by cantilevered 'canopies' as a result of the right-leaning stacked massing above on each level. Aesthetically, the perceived lightness of the upper three volumes is accentuated through the deliberate use of contrast materials and color at the base.
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