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the Airport City

Category : masterplan & architecture 
Date : 2015-present
Land Size : 880.000 sqm
Location : Teluk Naga, Jakarta

The Airport City plans over 38.000 sqm 0f plazas, 111.000 sqm of interconnected parks and 1.500.000 sqm of shopping venues between residential, leisure and working areas.

Working with the idea of multiple interconnected park and plaza of various size, the city is conceived to be a vibrant urban space for pedestrians. Maintaining density and close proximity between activities and programs, the city maintains efficient living and working flow for its inhabitants.
The Idea of a cluster of cellular structure with a nucleus center is realized with the creation of clusters of buildings surrounding a central outdoor plaza which serves as a shared entry/drop-off to each building. Integrated town management supports the overlapping program of the city between daytime and nighttime, which helps the dynamic development to become a vibrant environment.

MorphAsia is commissioned to design the masterplan of the city and the architecture design of several buildings which are the Narita One apartment building, the office blocks, the marketing office, the commercial area, and the hotel.

Narita One Apartment

Category : commercial 
Building Size/Land Size : 56,768 sqm/ 8,838 sqm
Year/Location : 2015/Teluk Naga, Banten

Built for a robust volume of 700 apartment unit, Narita One is the first residential tower in The Airport City which is designed to function with 4 other towers and a shared parking and amenity connected in its top podium level. The basement level of the building which host most of the parking space have an open, cross-ventilated spaces, anchored by a large garden at the center of the building.
The massive west facing façade, which is designed with vertical wooden fins to direct late afternoon sunlight, becomes a warm, glowing wooden mass when approached from the street side. At the street level, retail program lined the building and balanced with the placement of trees and dining pavilion in front of its façade to foster a comfortable pedestrian retail street.

the Airport City Hotel

Category : hospitality 
Building Size/Land Size : 39,500 sqm/ 5,309 sqm
Year/Location : 2015/Teluk Naga, Banten

The Airport City Hotel is designed as a model building typology in the main land parcel of the Airport City development. Working with an almost square parcel, the utility/service/parking areas are placed in the center of the lot, allowing a full commercial façade to face the street. Utilizing the corner that faces the circular plaza as the main lobby of the hotel, the façade of the hotel is designed with an onyx fascia running as the vertical exterior cladding of the building to the interior wall finish of the lobby, blurring exterior and interior design ideas.
Keeping the street side facades with program that has commercial / retail face, we placed the hotel bar as the transitional space from the public area of the street, the mezzanine café on the upper ground floor, which leads to the main dining space at the second floor. A high-ceiling glass Pavilion facing the pool and the street on top of the podium is placed to complement the conference/wedding hall with access to poolside terrace.

The Airport City Office block

Category : Hospitality

Building Size/Land Size : 18.000 sqm/ 30,000 sqm

Year/Location : 2014/Luwuk, NorthEast Sulawesi.


The project explores the tension of scattered volumes in the landscape, pulled in by the main corridor of the building. The building volumes are executed mostly in 1 storey to 2 storeys in order to create cheaper construction and simpler buildings. The corridor becomes a spine that connects all building volumes and serves as the datum from which guest can understand the landscape of the valley, leading them to a meditation space with a view towards the sea. The pool in the middle of the hotel is designed to be the centerpoint of the facility and a miniature of the coast. Embedded into the landscape of the valley, the architecture of the hotel continues the topographical lines of the landscape, and covers its room corridor with bougenville, completing the architecture of the hotel.

Mediacity Mauritius

CATEGORY : INSTUTIONAL / COMMERCIAL

BUILDING SIZE/LAND SIZE : 20,000 SQM/ 18,550 SQM

YEAR/LOCATION : 2021/PAMPLEMOUSSES, MAURITIUS

The land parcel for first phase of Mediacity Mauritius is designed to host 3 buildings, a broadcasting center, an office building and a commercial/retail building. The office and commercial building is designed to frame a green courtyard facing the façade of the broadcasting building. As the triangular site of the building is located at the entry point for the development of Beau Plan Smart City, an atrium with wooden louvre wings is created to greet the incoming traffic into the Mediacity development.
The plaza at the campus of the Mediacity connects to the rooftop of the building by a set of exterior spaces that passes through several level of terraces for F&B services. With infrastructure for stages in the center of the courtyard and the rooftop available as possible seating area to watch events at the courtyard, the courtyard of Mediacity Mauritius is designed as a strong venue for outdoor performances.

Aston Luwuk

Category : Hospitality

Building Size/Land Size : 18.000 sqm/ 30,000 sqm

Year/Location : 2014/Luwuk, NorthEast Sulawesi.


The project explores the tension of scattered volumes in the landscape, pulled in by the main corridor of the building. The building volumes are executed mostly in 1 storey to 2 storeys in order to create cheaper construction and simpler buildings. The corridor becomes a spine that connects all building volumes and serves as the datum from which guest can understand the landscape of the valley, leading them to a meditation space with a view towards the sea. The pool in the middle of the hotel is designed to be the centerpoint of the facility and a miniature of the coast. Embedded into the landscape of the valley, the architecture of the hotel continues the topographical lines of the landscape, and covers its room corridor with bougenville, completing the architecture of the hotel.

Pamulang MXD

Category : residential & commercial 

Date : 2016

Building Size : 312.000 sqm

Land Size : 58,000 sqm

Location : Pamulang, South Tangerang

The project takes advantage of the density of Pamulang region and the new outer ring road to support a robust dwelling and commercial program. With high Floor Area Ratio regulation and low building height restriction (approximately 13 storey) due to nearby Pondok Cabe airfield, four plots of entertainment/convention building and apartment / hotel building are designed to be connected in by a 4-storey cross-shaped commercial area with a lively F&B “street” located on its rooftop. 

The Pamulang project delivers compact plan with multiple public spaces with overlapping program for bazzar and social events to serve as the largest development within Pamulang region. In achieving this ambitious development, the design not only offers high versatility for the developer to program tenants and construction stages but also provides the unbuilt spaces between construction stages to be used for transient programs to activate the overall development.

The Alluvia

Category : hospitality

Date : 2018

Bldg Size : 75 sqm

Land Size : 120 sqm

Location : Bandung, West Java

The design of The Alluvia was conceived with the intention to create a lightweight structure with an organic shape with form-activated structural properties. The small restaurant was designed to be part of the small pavilions located on the roof garden of the Parijs van Java Mall in Bandung with a small building and an outdoor sitting area overlooking to the the roof garden and an artificial fountain.
The skin of the building is made of ship-lapped polycarbonate sheating designed to completely enclose and secure the thin wooden structure inside. Designed with the intention of combining craftsmanship with engineered materials, The Alluvia was built solely with sandwiched plywood with grooves to house electrical lines, and fastened together with metal clasps.
The organic shape and texture of tree leaves inspired the design of the roof and the patterns in the building.

Bukit Intan Lestari

Category : masterplan & architecture 

Date : 2017 

Land Size : 350.000 sqm

Location : Kupang, NTT

The Bukit Intan Lestari masterplan spans over 35 hectares of hilly plains of Kupang overlooking the sea, and borders a protected forest on its west side. The 15 year-span masterplan project also includes the architecture of the 200 room Hotel with Convention Center as its anchor. The strategy of combining dweling / leisure / convention programs was resolved with a commercial plot which buffers the connection between residential area and the more public program of hotel and convention.

The main residential area design use the natural bowl topography in its center to maintain the vista towards the sea. The residents are provided with pedestrian shortcuts to walk towards the commercial areas, while vehicular road access are designed to provide security and traffic control during big events within commercial/convention area.

Hotel Sotis Kupang

Category : Hospitality

Building Size/Land Size : 8,600 sqm/1,800 sqm

Date/Location : 2016/Kupang

A 4-star hotel with 120 rooms, ballroom, restaurants, Sotis Kupang Hotel and its beachfront cafe architecture is designed to connect the hotel’s pool facilities as a transitional space to the public beach area, making the establishment one of the first hotel in the kupang beachfront to open its beachfront without gate. The existing large trees surrounding the pool areas are preserved and featured within the pool terrace. At the compact site, the massing orientation of the building allows most of the rooms to face the beach. A two-story penthouse with two connecting room unit are located at the corner of the mass to view the beach and the city of Kupang.

Centurian Lombok Resort

Category : Hospitality

Building Size/Land Size : 53,000 sqm / 20,263 sqm

Date/Location : 2018/Lombok

This project was conceived as the coalescence  of the topographical lines to merge into the building mass. Rooms and hotel facilities are designed as part of the landscape both merging as part of the landscape, and at the same time rise to express its own volume.
Centurian Lombok Resorts, with the capacity of 337 rooms and 10 villas, weaving in and out of landscape of its crescent shaped hill site, faces the rooms to the sea. Landscape terraces facing the sea are designed to host private pools, outdoor dining spaces, meditation garden, spas and healing gardens. At the west side of the site, each unit of the villas are designed in V-shaped mass in order to protect the privacy of the private pool in the middle, while providing vistas to the sea for each room within the unit, while being attached to the landscape.

Hotel Melawai 1

Category : Hospitality

Building Size/Land Size : 7,000 sqm /1,500 sqm

Date/Location : 2010/South Jakarta

Tasked for façade renovation, the design strategize the renovation not only to create an esthetically pleasing façade but also to increase the performance of the building acoustically by creating a double window, and to bring light into stairways, corridors and halls. The exterior lighting is designed to draw the eyes up to the public space which are function hall and meeting rooms on top floor.

 

PRIVATE JET TERMINAL

Category : infrastructural

Date : 2013

Bldg Size : 1950 sqm

Land Size : 2000 sqm

Location : Jimbaran, Bali

This project re-imagines the airport from a transportation space into that of a pleasure garden. Designed to welcome the international jet-set to Bali, this airport is an interpretation to the Balinese bale (pavilion) within a Balinese landscape. Traditionally, the bale is defined by the horizontal space between the floor and the roof. In this airport, the spatial quality of the Balinese roof has been preserved as a floating volume suspended within a contemporary pleasure garden. This gardens forms a luxury lounge composed of a sequence of landscaped platforms, designed to recall the terraces of a subak, the Balinese irrigation system. In addition, the over-scaled suspended bale serves to create a heat stack effect, cooling the airport concourse through a passive energy system.

Shotgun Canggu

Given the challenge to fit 12 townhouses on an overly narrow site, this project was inspired by the typology of the Shotgun House from the American South. Historically, the shotgun house is a narrow house with spaces located one behind the other. In the Shotgun Canggu project, the staircase is used as an architectural device to help divide the living spaces while acting as a light shaft for natural light to penetrate the spaces. The narrow plots are expressed using a language of cantilevered volumes and planes.
 
 

The Revitalization of Istora Senayan

Category : institutional/hospitality

Land Size : 18,000 sqm

Date/Location : 2010/Jakarta

The adaptive reuse project of the historic Indoor Stadium of Istora Senayan, designed the constructivist architecture style, is reconceived to fit to the needs of the urbanization of Jakarta. With intention to imbue the project to portray the ideological concept of a “democratic archipelago”, we merged the atrium of the podium level of the building with the ground plane with landscape and various large stairs, promoting the idea of the meeting of people with different views and background under one roof.
A new additional building designed to be lifted above ground in front the existing Istora echoes the iconic roof design of the existing building, is intended to provide extra venue space that doubles the capacity the large grounds of Istora which has always been fully booked throughout the year. The creation of plaza in front of the building supports both civic events and casual use of the grounds of Istora, providing Jakarta with a new amenity for great urban life.

Hotel Fitra Majalengka

Category : Hospitality

Building Size/Land Size : 10,000 sqm/2,000 sqm

Date/Location : 2014/Majalengka, West Java

A 4-star shari’ah hotel with 180 rooms the design of Fitra Hotel is inspired by the use of geometry in Islamic art, and the local production of brick in the Majalengka area. The application of the repeating pattern of the floor plan creates the inflections in the façade of the building, and culminates in the penthouse walls and ceiling. The 2-storey tall penthouse of the hotel serves as both the grand suite room of the hotel and the “storefront” of the establishment.

Horison Jimbaran

CATEGORY : HOSPITALITY

DATE : 2014

BLDG SIZE : 4400 SQM

LAND SIZE : 1100 SQM

LOCATION : JIMBARAN, BALI

Inspired by the landscape and natural materials of Bali, this project is an agglomeration of landscape images and materials, both traditional and modern. With the cliffs of Bali in mind, the verticality of this mid-rise building allows a landscape-like exploration of void, vertical circulation, and excavated basement spaces, providing a sense of larger interconnected spaces while avoiding typical hotel corridors. This strategy alleviates the fact that the project houses 84 rooms on an approximately 1100 sqm site in Bali, which regulates the building height 15m.

The idea of the “hand-crafted” building is married with craftsmen’s techniques, creating intricate uniqueness and modulating the banal, typical order of a 3-star hotel.

MENARA MERDEKA MULTIPURPOSE HALL

Category : hospitality

Date : 2014

Bldg Size : 2085 sqm

Location : Jakarta, Indonesia

The project explores traditional Indonesian crafts in the creation of a versatile ballroom/concert hall. Studies of abstracted flower geometries originating from traditional rattan patterns generate the forms and patterns of the ceiling and floor at various scales, while panels of rattan woven around metal frames are used as wall finishes for their acoustic properties.

Brick House

This house explores how to maximize the residential lot by offering spaces with at least two sides facing the exterior. Inspired by the cool climate of the city of Bandung, this rule is applied throughout the building, resulting in the antithesis of a typical house: a cross-shaped plan in the middle of the site. The massive façade of the building conceals the openness of the interior spaces.

Equator House

Category : hospitality

Date : 2014

Bldg Size : 1120 sqm

Location : Jakarta, Indonesia

Located at the top floor of a tower, the design of the sky lounge is intended to align the interior spaces to the gestures of the building. The building creates a symmetrical axis alowng which a private cinema, a pool and a lounge area are located. Within this area, the design strategy is to create a multi-layered atmosphere:  the cinema a dark space, the pool area a serene spa and the lounge a warm, well lit-space with bars on each side, detailed to overlook the city including a view to the National Monument

High Scope Bandung

 
Initiated by the desire to relate the learning experience to a larger natural setting, the design strategy of this pre-school is focused on creating processions for both students and nature to coincide.
The goal of fenestration is to create spatial moments that reveals natural qualities of the outdoors. Ideally, students should be able to know their schedule by looking at the quality of light in the classroom.
 
 
 
 

Knot House

Category : residential

Date : 2014

Bldg Size : 550 sqm

Land Size : 400 sqm

Location : Tangerang Selatan, West Java

The house, designed for a bachelor, is driven by the creation of interconnected spaces revolving around the favorite activities of the bachelor: cooking, lounging, reading and entertaining visitors. The vehicle for this interconnected revolving space is the impulse to re-create the piano nobile and the raumplan while considering the exterior spaces and the landscape as part of the flow of the continual space of the interior.

Like a knot looping the living activities, the building gesture takes the flow of the outdoor garden into the interior living spaces while filding onto itself the multiple activities of the living spaces.

Setiabudi Court

This compact 6-unit luxury townhouse project started from the pragmatic ideas of combining spaces for mutual benefit and creating open areas for recreation, sunlight, and fresh air. Each architectural element of the building (wall, floor, roof) is designed separately to resolve a specific problem (privacy, lighting, heat gain, ventilation, programmatic needs, etc.). Because these elements are developed independently, their combination provides a productive tension. Delaminating these architectural layers and suspending them reveals the true nature of the building conception, allowing the creation of new spatial conditions.

SAMS

Category : Institutional/hospitality

Bldg Size/Land Size: 5,000 sqm/1,300 sqm

Date/Location: 2010/South Jakarta

The Serpong Art and Music School is designed with a community center space in the center, surrounded with classroom and balconies that serve as viewing space towards the central space, and topped with the volume of the dance studio/ballroom studio on top of it. The curved flowing shape of the floor plates, facades and roof depicts the energy of the activities happening inside the building.

MAJ Senayan National Golf

Category : hospitality

Area : 8,000 sqm 

Date/Location : 2017/Jakarta

The Interior design of Senayan Golf’s clubhouse main floor arranges the 5 Food & Beverage establishments space as the supporting program for the golf club. The main space of the clubhouse which is designed to serve both events space and the main dining area, features a geometric wooden ceiling with integrated lighting design which gives the space a timeless atmosphere.

 

Menara Merdeka Sky Lounge

Category : hospitality

Date : 2014

Bldg Size : 1120 sqm

Location : Jakarta, Indonesia

Located at the top floor of a tower, the design of the sky lounge is intended to align the interior spaces to the gestures of the building. The building creates a symmetrical axis alowng which a private cinema, a pool and a lounge area are located. Within this area, the design strategy is to create a multi-layered atmosphere:  the cinema a dark space, the pool area a serene spa and the lounge a warm, well lit-space with bars on each side, detailed to overlook the city including a view to the National Monument