This home for two retired lecturers in the Indonesian city of Salatiga was made with numerous funnels on its roof to echo the area’s mountainous topography .
Indonesian studio Budi Pradono Architects designed the bamboo house for a retired couple and their extended loved ones in Salatiga, a tiny city on the island of Java.
The house, which the architects named Dancing Mountain Property, functions five steep-pitched bamboo roofs topped with skylights, made to reference the peaks of the surrounding landscape.
“The property is at an altitude of two,000 metres above sea degree on the ridge of Mount Merbabu, and is surrounded by many other mountains,” explained the architects. “We additional the form of mountains over some spaces as an interpretation of the surrounding spot, and also to deliver in as much natural light as attainable.”
At the back of the property, a zigzagging roof was also extra to suggest a cluster of village homes joined collectively.
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“The project seeks to interpret Javanese houses in multiplication – from a distance, it seems like the homes in the surrounding villages,” explained the architects, whose other tasks include a curved concrete house and a tilting glass residence, the two of which feature trees growing inside.
Inside, the property has an open-plan split-degree residing space that follows the slope of the website. 4 bedrooms behind this every single have their personal bathroom.
The living area has a glazed wall that reaches nearly 4 metres substantial, giving views out to an adjacent forest. This panel comprises a patchwork-fashion arrangement of black-framed windows, some of which pivot open to supply normal ventilation.
Topped with the steep-pitched bamboo roofs, the bedrooms have an internal height of six metres and also feature tall sections of glazing, with pivoting doors to entry en-suite bathrooms.
A communal washroom with a curved brick wall was extra behind the kitchen to provide a more sociable bathing room in which the owners, their young children and their grandchildren can wash and still really feel connected to the living location.
“The primary bathroom is designed as a social spot, the place individuals can nevertheless interact with other individuals in diverse regions of the house,” stated the architects. “Conceptually, this project is striving to carry back childhood memories of the household, with open, shared spaces.”
In the backyard, an oval-shaped pavilion houses a library that can be utilized by the local community.
“The homeowners are retired lecturers, and they wished to share their collection of economics and science books,” explained the architects. “It has also become a sharing room for younger creatives in the region, to support bring them to the subsequent stage of their careers.”
The home was built above a period of two many years by a crew of novices from the neighborhood community, utilizing readily obtainable resources such as bamboo for the frame, roof and bedroom flooring, and stone and bricks for the walls.
“The owners had an appreciation of bamboo structures which had begun to be abandoned in the neighborhood,” mentioned the architects. “This task utilizes the indigenous, minimal-tech methods of the local community, and their skills in bamboo structural techniques and stone development.”
British architects Invisible Studio took a related technique when developing a workshop near Bath last yr, managing a crew who had never built prior to to construct the constructing with timber from the surrounding forest.
“From a social level of view, Dancing Mountain House is not developed by the expert contractor, but by the regional local community, so as to give financial and cultural rewards to the location,” extra the architects.
A rainwater harvesting program was installed to retailer water from the wet season for use in the course of the drier months, and a solar water heater was additional to provide scorching water for the showers.
“Practically all present large trees on the web site have been also stored, and a pule tree was planted in the centre of the garden,” explained the architects, who claim the new addition can be utilised to heal various conditions and so give an additional advantage for the surrounding community.
Photography is by Fernando Gomulya.
Undertaking credits:
Venture architect: Budi Pradono
Architectural assistants: Stephanie Monieca, Arief Mubaraq
Architectural assistant support: Damicia Tangyong, Monica Selvinia, Indrawan Suwanto
Model maker: Daryanto
Interior layout: Budi Pradono Architects
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Idea diagram 
Ground floor strategy 
Roof strategy 
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