Room Installation

At its core, the installation confronts our binary understandings of space, materiality, and perception, inviting an intellectual dialogue on the boundary between nature and the built environment.

Set within a dense stand of mature trees, the panelling emerges like a phantom clearing, its interplay of reflection and transparency filtered by trunks and foliage, fragmenting sightlines and casting the inhabitant as both seen and unseen — a participant in a play of public spectacle and private refuge.

What begins as immediate clarity evolves into layered awareness as the rigor of orthogonal planes softens against the trees' organic patterns.

Beneath this elemental restraint lies a meticulous choreography of complex construction converging into a deceptively simple volume.

Do we bend nature to satisfy our comfort and certitude, or do we allow ourselves to be subsumed into its rhythms?

In "Room," every glance becomes an act of negotiation: the eye oscillates between outside and inside, between the promise of revelation and the allure of concealment.

By embracing these dualities—appear and disappear, reflective and transparent, simple and complex, real and imaginary—Tamara Wibowo Architects offers a contemplative exploration of how we inhabit, observe, and ultimately co-create the thresholds that define our world.