An architect’s private house, his workshop, his gallery-library open to the public, as well as a dental clinic and a forthcoming coffee shop: these are the elements of a very rich program, challenging the mono-functional purpose of a single, tiny lot in Jakarta’s residential neighborhoods. The complex is called Guha, and his designer-client is Realrich Sjarief, who founded his firm RAW – Realrich Architecture Workshop in the capital city of Indonesia. The variety of functions is matched by the diversity of the selected materials, for structures and partitions, including steel, wood, glass, metal, chalk, bamboo, plastic, stone and concrete. In fact, Guha is conceived as a catalogue of the manifold opportunities that a sensible combination of tradition and innovation can provide to architecture, in terms of construction techniques and languages.
A workshop-house in Indonesia is a catalogue of traditional and contemporary technologies
Realrich Architecture Workshop’s Guha complex is an architecture made of juxtapositions, and of countless combinations of volumes, colors, textures and light effects.
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020. Photo © Ernest Theofilus
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020. Photo © Ernest Theofilus
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020. Photo © Ernest Theofilus
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020. Photo © Ernest Theofilus
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia, 2020. Photo © Ernest Theofilus
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, Bamboo castle plans
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, sections
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, first floor plan
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, ground floor plan
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, roof plan
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, general axonometric view
Realrich Architecture Workshop, Guha, technical details
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- Alessandro Benetti
- 22 April 2020
- Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia
- Realrich Architecture Workshop
- 600 sqm
- library, dental clinic, private house, workshop
- 2020
In regards to technology, this and other projects by Realrich Architecture Workshop can be linked to the research carried by other protagonists of South-East Asia contemporary architecture, for instance Vietnamese Vo Trong Nghia and his experimentation on the structural use of bamboo. Compared to the latter, though, Realrich Sjarief is seemingly less interested in achieving a synthesis, both conceptually and formally. Guha is an architecture made of additions and juxtapositions, where proliferate the encounters and the overlapping, the similarities and the conflicts between volumes, colors, textures, light effects. Vegetation, and more particularly climber plants, further adds to this stratification. Therefore, for its formal and evocative exuberance, it rather hints at the restless and dreamlike eclecticism of such artist-architects from the 20th century as Bruce Goff and Paolo Soleri.
- Guha
- library, dental clinic, private house, workshop
- Taman Villa Meruya, Tangerang, Indonesia
- Realrich Architecture Workshop
- Realrich Sjarief
- Amud, Mohammad Enoh, Alifian Kharisma, Miftahuddin Nurdayat, Septrio Effendi, Fakhriyah Khairunnida, Vivi Yani Santosa, Tirta Budiman, Aqidon Noor Khafid, Amirul Farras
- Realrich Sjarief + Laurensia Yudith
- 600 sqm
- 2020