New Indonesian House by Robert Powell

Author:Robert Powell [Powell, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4629-0602-4
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Tan Tik Lam was born in Bandung and trained at Parahyangan Catholic University from 1988 to 1995. “The teachers were somewhat conservative,” he recalls, “but the students were highly motivated and widely traveled.”1 Tan became a member of Arsitek Muda Indonesia (AMI), the student organization founded in 1989 by a group of young architects intent on promoting critical discussion of architecture. “AMI,” he says, “opened our minds.” He and his contemporaries—Denny Gondo, Ahmad Djuhara and Gregorius Supie Yolodi—formed the second generation of AMI or AMINext, as they are sometimes referred to.

Dago House No. 1 is approached up a narrow winding road that ascends one of the steep valleys to the north of Bandung. The road has a precipitous drop on one side and the site is a plateau hewn from the hillside. The house has a “ longhouse ” type of plan, stretching along the hillside from east to west, with the principal rooms facing south across a veranda and panoramic views over the city. It is what his father, the renowned architect Tan Tjiang Ay, refers to as “ a railway station plan.”2 On the opposite side of the valley are farm terraces that supply fruit and vegetables to the city.

The entrance to the house is choreographed with great skill. An arrival court at the west end of the site, some seven meters below the house, gives access to the garage and domestic quarters. The house can be glimpsed on the hillside above an embankment of close-cropped grass. From the court, a four-meter-wide flight of stairs gently ascends the hillside behind a stone retaining wall. This is a compressed space that effectively delays the view down the valley. Arriving at the summit of the stairs, visitors turn 180 degrees to experience an exhilarating panorama of the city to the southwest and the mountains beyond.

The house is ideally orientated for the tropics. The rising sun falls upon the narrow east-facing elevation, and at its zenith the sun is almost directly overhead so that the broad south-facing veranda, with its pitched roof and low eaves, is in deep shade. At sunset, the owners sit on the west end of the terrace and view the valley across an infinity swimming pool. Bandung enjoys a far cooler climate than Jakarta, and it was here that the early Dutch colonizers escaped from the heat and humidity of the mosquito-infested swamps on which, for better or worse, they had sited the capital—

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