GOLF RESIDENCE
Gets Architects
ARCHITECTS
Gets Architects
YEAR
2019
AREA
880 m²
PPHOTOGRAPHS
Fernando Gomulya
PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT
Gerard Tambunan
SITE
545 sqm
COUNTRY
Indonesia
DESIGN TEAM
Aleicia Vidya, Josua Raharjo, Dian Xu
Text description provided by architect.
Privileging the view looking out to the golf field and the incidence of sunlight, the mass combination of GolFN House started with a transversal cut. The cut creates a sharp intersection between the upper masses; to confront and frame.
The lush scenery of the golf field across the house and Mount Salak far away. The site in Bogor is chosen by the owner to reminisce about the cherished memories of his childhood home in Saudi Arabia.
The golf field turns into the inclusion of familiar scenery of dunes desert landscape: they have a similar gradual slope although come in different hues. The ideal place to plan and build a space for an easement.
Although the owner comes from Saudi Arabia, he doesn’t want the house to have any ornamentation that resembles the Saudi culture. Thus, the laser-cut box conveys a personalized pattern of a modern and versatile house.
The arrival at GolFN via an open ramp—located on the right side of the house—is secluded by the semi-opaque laser-cut volume above. The combination of vertical and horizontal aluminum sun shading panels constructs a tunnel form.
It protects the main entrance from the majority of daylight which occurs primarily through the east-facing building.
Thus, creating the surprising effects of light. Furthermore, it also ends up functioning to split the heavy raindrops: a unique natural water feature in this house.
Consideration of the clients aging comfortably in this house determined that there should be leveling that provided with ramp and lift at one continuous level.
Therefore, the ramp has to create an atmosphere of a worthy entrance while walking through it.
It has uncertainty about the internality of the external space as the owner who is fond of rain doesn’t want the laser-cut mass to be protected by a glass roof. He even wonders why Indonesian mostly don’t like getting rained on.
Therefore in the internal space, there’s a hierarchy that works around the different orientations and occasions throughout each level; the semi-private program on the ground floor, the private program on the third floor, and the public program on the first floor.
