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AM Residence
Mario Wibowo

AM Residence

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A framed tropical residence that balances openness, privacy, and climate responsiveness though layered spaces, screened balconies, and strong architectural geometry.

The inspritation and key concept development of this house rooted in modern tropical architecture, where climate response, shading, and openness to nature shape the design. 

The most dominant idea on the back façade is the large rectangular frame that wraps the upper floors. Acting as a visual container that organizes the facade.

It gives the house a clean, minimalist identity while emphasizing horizontal layers, creates depth and shadow , which is important in tropical sunlight.

photo_credit Mario Wibowo
Mario Wibowo
photo_credit Mario Wibowo
Mario Wibowo

The shape strongly responds to heat, sunlight, and ventilation. The key strategies visible in the design are wooden slats filter sunlight, reduce heat gain, while maintain privacy. The deep balcony on the upper floors extend outward creating deep shaded terraces, acting as thermal buffers before the interior spaces.

While on front facade, the layered pergola structure protects the entrance and driveway from rain and sun, creating light and shadow patterns.

The back of the house uses a clear transition from public to private spaces, by doing layer sequence, landscape and garden buffer, transparent living space (ground floor), private terrace floors, screen upper balconies, from the outside gives privacy from neighboring houses, and from the inside, give openness toward the garden.

photo_credit Mario Wibowo
Mario Wibowo
photo_credit Mario Wibowo
Mario Wibowo

The key ideas are living areas connect visually to the garden, sliding glass doors likely allow the house to open completely. Outdoor spaces become extentions of the interior living areas.

The Material contrast, the whole design uses a carefully balanced material palette, white concrete frame as structural clarity and modern aesthetic, dark steel coloumns gives slender vertical rhythm, timber screen gives warmth and human scale, and the glass facade gives transparency and connection to landscape. The combination avoids monotony and creates a modern but warm architectural language.

At night, integrated lighting emphasizes the horizontal lines of the balconies, the depth of the facade frame, the texture of the timber slats. The lighting strategy transforms the house into a glowing architectural object, highlighting its geometry.

photo_credit Mario Wibowo
Mario Wibowo
photo_credit Mario Wibowo
Mario Wibowo

The vertical steel coloumns and large cantilevered terraces suggest the concept of Light structure supporting floating volumes, create a sense of visual lightness, elegant structural rhythm across the facade. 

The house is organized using a layered vertical and horizontal spatial strategy to balance openness, privacy, and climate control. Ground floor is designed as the most open and transparent level. Large glass panels connect the living and dining spaces directly to the garden. This creates strong indoor-outdoor continuity, allowing natural light, ventilation, and visual connection to the landscape. Middle and top floor contains bedroom. A deep balcony with vertical timber screens acts as buffer between interior rooms and the exterior, reducing heat and glare, the large architectural frame and balcony enclosure provide shade and a sense of enclosure while still allowing views outward.

photo_credit HYJA
HYJA
photo_credit HYJA
HYJA

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Project Year
2026
Primary Building Material
Concrete
Steel
Building Area
522 m2
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