Planned at the start of the pandemic when lockdown started happening and when people should stay at home. The owner of Rumah Biru wanted to build a house where the residents would not feel the need to get out of the house for vacation. Inspired by the famous vacation destination, the owner wanted to feel like he lived in Santorini. The challenge was how to make a house what made in Greece still contextual within a residential area in a tropical climate city. The simplicity, whitewashed cubical form with rounded corners that Cycladic Houses have implemented for the house. But rather than using flat roofs for the extreme rain and hot weather that cycled through the year, the house constructed a steep roof that hides behind the rooftop.

The fluid concepts of dwellings inspired the composition of the masses to create little Santorini. The three modules on the second floor are smooth-edge white cases to contain the private area. The arrangement offered an asymmetry balance for the facade. On the first floor, the space was created as a mini plaza for living, dining, and kitchen. The composition sets up this outside-feel space inside the house to bring about a void. Air flows around in this void and is sheltered by a gable roof that has poked into twelve of 45x45 cm2 fixed skylights. The skylight is used as a natural lighting of the “outside” space through the first floor.

The stairs beside the living room and the bridge above it integrated and gave texture into the void. The series of circulation forms as the amalgamation of the white boxes allows the residents momentarily to communicate throughout the house. 

The cerulean blue colors spread around the home to solidify the initial concept and tinted the whitewashed walls. It is implemented on the entrance door, windows, railings, and the couch of the nooks. The walls in the public area were excavated into an arch for a nook bench as a cocooned space in the open floor plans.