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Image Credit: Fernando Gomulya
Architects: TWS & Partners
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 300 sqm
Photographs: Fernando Gomulya
Twisting out something from the usual line is taken in order to create different perception or to enrich some more quality. This happens to a house that we name it as The Distort House.
It is located in the south of Jakarta which is still dominated by lush, tropical village forest in the neighborhood. In the front of the site itself lays a public park with some old big tropical trees. In response to those advantages, the house’s mass outline is shifted close to the back perimeter line of the site, and then twisted in 15 degree, leaving vast green area in the front. This is a unique way to open a more huge front space striking back as view and open air to the inside.
The front green area brings benefits also as intermediary open space to soften the building scale to the surrounding and create visual bridge of transition between the public park and the house itself.
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