Tucked in the hidden creative compound of Bintaro area, Antikode Headquarters is designed by Seniman Ruang, to accommodate the rapid growth of Antikode digital team members in 3 stories building. Dark color, high windows, and a linear terrace overviewing The Lapan retail complex characterize the architecture. The design began with an attempt to achieve structural efficiency and zero-waste material by applying a grid composition adjusted to steel modules, split into three connected rectangular forms to mitigate the massiveness of the building.
The office echoes a work environment that balances “work” and “play”, intending to boost productivity as well as the well-being of the young Millennials employees. The entrance, accentuated by hanging concrete stairs, is separated from the main building by a small foyer of landscape with skylights. The limited land causes the ground floor to turn into a parking lot, while the workspaces along with playground, lounges, and leisure area reside on the upper floors. As the main focal point, the playground is created as a stepping auditorium to accommodate a gathering of a hundred people with slides connecting the first and second floors.
Built during the COVID-19 pandemic, this office design is adapted to changing needs and habits of working from home back to working from the office. New habits have brought people to be more familiar with the digital world and the emergence of doing everything online. The office is no longer the center of business activity, but a facilitating place for activities that cannot be carried out at home. Antikode provides an open-plan workplace that promotes re-socialization after the quarantine period, equipped with several accidental small spaces as solitary rooms for workers to perform individual online meetings, such as the space under auditorium stairs, squeezed space between wood partition, and the attic space formed from the sloped roof. These spaces that are generally abandoned become an important consideration in design to accommodate the rising individual online meeting, as well as foster a conducive work environment for many introvert workers.
The interior applies various shades of grey and warm natural wood furniture to attain comfort and timelessness with an industrial style. Natural white oak wood partition stretches across the room, hiding three different meeting rooms, shaping three phone booths, and enclosing the ducting air conditioning systems to achieve a clean and minimalist look. All ceilings are exposed to get the maximum height while keeping total building heights to a minimum to harmonize the relationship with the other surrounding one-level buildings. Two high windows on both sides of the building façade face each other to maximize the airflow and sunlight with a long balcony sectioned by vertical aluminum louvers to block direct sunlight from the west.
Team:
Architect & Interior Designer: Seniman Ruang
Lighting Designer: ErreLuce
Photographer: Mario Wibowo
