Alberto Pinto Studio is one of the greatest icons of French interior design, his work is based on many styles throughout his life. Pinto has developed several interior design projects, not only in residential areas, but also in hotels, businesses and even yachts. He is accustomed to taking on challenges that would be intimidating to others, and especially enjoys remodeling huge spaces, blending different styles and always maintaining perfect harmony. Today, Studio Alberto Pinto is recognized as one of the best design studios in France, and by maintaining this status it pays homage to the memory and legacy of Alberto Pinto.
Indeed, Alberto Pinto left his mark on the interior design and decorative art worlds by embodying more than a style. His, was a true art of living, graced by his generosity, hospitality, sense of comfort, and love of spaces, both sumptuous and joyful.
PINTO today includes two branches : PINTO Decoration, for the creation, development and realization of all the interior design projects, and PINTO Collections, for the design and production of furniture and decorative items, including the collections of porcelain table services – l’art de la table.
Interior design is above all a matter of listening and of transforming space. Design and creation take shape with the infinite details of PINTO’s layouts: works of art, furniture, fabrics and objects, all together making one. The hand of the decorator must disappear, and the room must seem to have always existed exactly as it appears.
PINTO is a reference worldwide in interior design through its creations and designs.
Manhattan Apartment, Living Room — The grand living room underwent a major restoration that has softened the space, thanks to a subtle contrast of white and Wedgwood blue; From the book Alberto Pinto: World Interiors (Flammarion, 2012), with photography by Jacques PépionThe Lanesborough, London — A meticulous 18-month overhaul by world-renowned interior designer Alberto Pinto has restored this standalone property to its enviable status as one of London’s most revered Regency landmarks –Condé Nast Traveler
The seventeenth century private residence at the Place des Victoires in Paris was the home of Pinto’s interior design and decoration agency; the agency consisted of 60 people.Manhattan Apartment, Living Room — The grand living room underwent a major restoration that has softened the space, thanks to a subtle contrast of white and Wedgwood blue. From the book Alberto Pinto: World Interiors (Flammarion, 2012), with photography by Jacques Pépion
Pierre Henri Bouchacourt is a French top interior designer.
Pierre Henri Bouchacourt founded his studio – PH2B in 1989. Studio PH2B is specialised in interior designing hotels, hotel residences, creating a chic and elegant approach with a touch of Orientalism. Its main objective is to give reality to various projects with a different vision of the planning and decoration of spaces.
PH2B studio favours creativity. Each case is studied and analysed by the agency’s professionals to optimise the mission and fully meet the client’s expectations. Always with great daring, Pierre-Henri Bouchacourt, who gives way to his imagination nourished by his various travels, offers very aesthetic projects mixed with a touch of Orientalism. This gives this typical touch to his studio, which can be found in the balance between colours, light and warmth that he brings to his creations.
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The Agora Tower by Vincent Callebaut Architectures, known for their distinct eco-vision, designed this tower to be placed on the biggest, not to mention last, parcel of land for residential use in Taipei City, Taiwan. The twisting foliage-filled tower allows for a high-density space to exist that will also limit the ecologic footprint of the inhabitants. The aim of this building is to forge a symbiotic relationship between the urban dweller and nature.
The helicoidal towers appropriate their form from the structure of DNA, conceptually speaking to the building blocks of life, as well as dynamism and twinning. In a single level, four types of housing units are present, and in the structure as a whole there are 40 luxurious apartments as well as facilities. The act of twisting the form creates the optimization for open-air hanging gardens consisting of tall planted balconies of suspended orchards, organic vegetable gardens and medicinal greenery. Multiplying the transversal views of the overall east-west rhomboidal pyramid is produced by angling the apartments also allowing them to have exceptional views of the city.
The garden spaces outside each of the apartments should help to give the resident the sense of a yard, which is a concept that I find interesting. The questions I have regarding this design are related to the care and maintenance of the garden spaces over time, but these thoughts are only based upon the fact that I don’t have a green thumb. From the renderings the building seems to be consumed by plant life making it feel as though the apartment residences are the plants themselves. It would be interesting to see what sort of spaces this design could offer without the overwhelming amount of plant life to distract from the architecture that is being constructed. However as I say that I realize the thoughts and concepts this project explores is where architectural design seems to be headed, and sometimes it is more important to take the environment into consideration and have that take precedent in the design.
In a former sand quarry, a new botanic garden has been completed, one that allows visitors to follow a metaphorical journey of water through the Australian landscape, from the desert to the coastal fringe.
Via the artistry of landscape architecture, this integrated landscape brings together horticulture, architecture, ecology, and art to create the largest botanic garden devoted to Australian flora. It seeks, through the design of themed experiences, to inspire visitors to see our plants in new ways.
The completion of the Australian Garden comes at a time when Botanic Gardens world-wide are questioning existing research and recreational paradigms and refocussing new on messages of landscape conservation and a renewed interest in meaningful visitor engagement.
The Australian Garden engages visitors by expressing the love – hate relationship Australian’s have with their landscape. It is embraced or shunned by its people, loved for its sublime beauty or loathed as the cause of hardship. Artists and writers have often been inspired to design or write in response to subtle rhythms, flowing forms and tenacious flora of our landscape, whilst others have attempted to order the landscape, and conceive of it as humanly designed form.
TCL Memorial and Euc Walk RBG CranabourneTCL Memorial and Euc Walk RBG Cranabourne
At the Australian Garden, these tensions are the creative genesis of the design, expressing our reverence and sense of awe, the natural landscape, and our innate impulse to change it, to make it into a humanly contrived form of beautiful, yet our own, work.
TCL Memorial and Euc Walk RBG Cranabourne
On the east side of the garden, exhibition gardens, display landscapes, research plots and forestry arrays that illustrate our propensity to frame and order our landscapes in more formal manners, whilst on the west, visitors are subsumed by gardens that are inspired by natural cycles, immersive landscapes and irregular floristic forms. Water plays a mediating role between these two conditions, taking visitors from rockpool escarpments, meandering river bends, melaleuca spits and coastal edges.
Gardens in Australia have traditionally been modeled on European precedents or more recently attempted to recreate the seductive qualities of the Australian landscape. The Australian Garden by contrast uses the Australian landscape as its inspiration to create a sequence of powerful sculptural and artistic landscape experiences that recognize its diversity, breadth of scale and wonderful contrasts. Via these creative landscape compositions, the project seeks to stimulate and educate visitors into the potential use and diversity of Australian flora.
Visitors engage with the botanical collections via an intrinsically interpretive experience. Didactic signage is shunned in favour of a landscape design approach that communicates narratives via experience and immersion. Here design is a catalyst to evoke qualities of the Australian landscape,via abstraction, distillation and sculpted experiences. This design approach captures a heightened experience that does not rely on mimicry, or simulacra.
Designed experiences such as walking across the tangle of a Eucalypt forest floor, or the passage through wind pruned coastal heath, is juxtaposed amongst the order reminiscent of forestry plantations and gardens that evoke the patterns of urbanisation on our coastal fringe. The botanical collection plays a fundamental supporting role in accentuating the interpretive experience.
Here the narrative has informed the composition and the experience reinforces the message. It aims to strike a balance,between abstraction, metaphor and poetry. Not every visitor will take home the same message, as each will have their own experience. It allows many layers of emotional and intellectual discovery.
Walking through the Australian landscape is a journey of constant weaves, shifts and jumps. One never travels in a straight line – the flora gets in the way! This choreography of movement is captured in the Australian Garden, where visitors are taken on a distinctly unconventional journey. Visitors are invited into the landscape via a pathway system that constantly morphs according to the landscape narrative and garden experience. Crusty paths in the Gondwana Garden shift to become over water circular grated plate which connects to a field of stones where the actual path is no longer apparent.
Equally as there is not one linear narrative to describe the Australian landscape, paths in the Australian landscape lead visitors on many journeys and many experiences. This is a garden of discovery, of multiple experiences and of cumulative knowledge.
As is the largest botanic garden devoted to the display of Australian flora, the Australian Garden is now host to a vast collection of plants for scientific, educative, and conservation purposes. It plays a vital role in helping scientists and the public understand the history, present day uses and what the future may hold for plants in natural and urban environments. It embraces the importance of biodiversity and our increased understanding of the need to protect species and ecosystems to safeguard the world’s biological heritage.
The Australian Garden however performs another role, one as the new public realm for an ever expanding city. Messages of biodiversity and sustainability are integrated into its role as a new major visitor destination where not only do visitors come to explore the plant collections but to also be entertained, through interactive workshops, music, cinema, markets, cafes and play.
We embarked on a journey to redefine simplicity and minimalism. Various parameters lead the concept of our design, from the choice of material to the integration of vegetation and light. We have worked on this project inside out, sculpting spaces according to form and function while allowing each material to create the requested atmosphere.
The villa spreads on three stories, offering different experiences with its surrounding environment. The ground floor expands to the outdoor pool and garden. It also hugs green lushes and trees adopting them as part of the house. One large marble slab covers the floor with levitated burn walnut elements dividing the different spaces. Furniture items are delicately placed benefiting from natural views and proper daylight.
The first floor follows the same logic as the ground floor in terms of light penetration and horizontal circulation, while offering more privacy through warmer flooring and wood cladding. Spaces of the second floor connect with the lower level through double-height spaces and passages. They also overlook the garden and the pool below.
From the main entrance, a disruption of the marble slab links the ground floor to the basement. A clear change of material and disconnection and light give the basement a different feel and atmosphere. A home playground designed to suit the clients’ needs and hobbies. The bar, home theater, gym, and playroom are crafted and designed for leisure and entertainment.
HOUSES, HOUSE INTERIORS
SHARJAH, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Interior Designers: IAIA – Idea Art Interior Architects
Year: 2020
Photographs: Alex Jeffries
Manufacturers: Artemide, Marwa Marble, Onok Lighting, Satco Woodworks
Lead Architects: Ramzi Jizi, Darine Jabeili
With its innovative biodiversity, microclimate, and social activities, Al Fay Park is a paradigm shift in how to design and implement nature in the dense megacities of the Middle East. The park is designed by Danish nature-design stars SLA. A new kind of urban nature park has seen the light of day in Abu Dhabi. Gone are the water-consuming and soulless ‘Las Vegas landscapes’ of the past. Enter Al Fay Park – a new 27,500 m2 public park in downtown Abu Dhabi that signals a new kind of Middle Eastern city development: Driven by inclusive nature rather than iconic buildings.
Al Fay Park is designed by Danish nature-based design studio SLA for the client Abu Dhabi Department of Municipalities and Transport and is a game-changer in how to design and implement city nature in the dense megacities of the Middle East. The park uses biodiversity to enhance the local microclimate as well as the social public realm.
The park design is devised through SLA’s in-house biologists and planting experts’ yearlong research studies of the region’s unique nature and wildlife. Research published in SLA’s own internal plant book covering all the native plant species of the UAE, their optimal growing and living conditions, and how to integrate them into the design.
“Al Fay Park is a new type of forest park in Abu Dhabi. Through our extensive research in the region’s flora and fauna, we create a new paradigm for how to think and design the public realm in the Middle East. Al Fay Park is a celebration of Abu Dhabi’s nature and culture and a prime example of how to maximize climate action, increase life-quality, and radically improve the biodiversity of an entire city – all on a former sand site,” says Rasmus Astrup, Design Principal and Partner in SLA.
As the first biodiversity park in the UAE, Al Fay Park contains more than 2,000 native trees and bushes – including the national Ghaf trees that have been replanted from desert nurseries into the park – all specifically chosen to strengthen biodiversity for both planting and wildlife and to maximize natural cooling throughout the park. The resulting microclimate reduces traffic noise and temperature and creates a distinct forest-like environment. The specifically designed sloping entrances funnel the cooler southern breeze down into the park while local grasses and bushes reduce sand infiltration.
“Al Fay Park is specifically designed to provide both biological, environmental, and social benefits to Abu Dhabi. The density of the trees, the soil design, the irrigation using solely recirculated water, and the sole use of native species not only ensure that the park has radically reduced its irrigation by 40 percent compared to conventional parks. The planting also attracts bees, pollinators, birds, and animals, providing a lush and lively atmosphere in the middle of Abu Dhabi – this is a park with a 100 percent birdsong guaranty! Lastly, the microclimate design provides the best possible social ecosystem for play, sports, and leisure – making Al Fay Park both socially and climatically ‘the coolest place in town,” says Rasmus Astrup, Design Principal and Partner in SLA.
Benefitting from the optimized microclimate, Al Fay Park is buzzing with social activities such as multiple sports facilities, playgrounds, street fitness, climbing walls, minigolf, food trucks, and a host of informal outdoor seating areas. Along the edge of the park, a winding Forest Track invites visitors to explore sensuously and ‘wild’ nature experiences amongst the flowers and grasses and under the canopies. The result is a park with authentic ecosystems and natural habitats for wildlife that also is an open invitation for all to explore nature, interact with each other and relax together in a peaceful, comfortable, and serene setting.
“The world-class design of Al Fay Park has created an environment that encourages community members to socially engage with one another while also connecting with the nature that surrounds them. We’re looking forward to witnessing the growth of this dynamic park that will benefit Abu Dhabi for future generations to come,” says Latifa Al Hallami, Acting Director of Urban Growth, at the Department of Municipalities and Transport.
All in all, Al Fay Park is the UAE’s first showcase of how to strengthen urban biodiversity while creating a cool, comfortable, and unique round-the-clock public realm for all residents and visitors to meet, play, and live.
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Architects: SLA
Area: 27500 m²
Year: 2021
Photographs: Philip Handforth
Architect of Record: Parsons
KAF design & fit-out is a professional interior design company, specialized in the luxury residential, hospitality & commercial projects all around UAE.
Yousra Ibrahim is the founder and creative force behind KAF design & fit-out. Our success is mainly owed to the dedication and personal touch that we apply to each and every project.
Our design philosophy at KAF designs is shaping the best lines with mixing luxe and functionality to create a luxury that couldn’t be in comparable with any other project. Each project is a unique in KAF designs, we always exceed our client expectations and satisfaction in designing their villas.
Yousra is an expert interior designer in all styles (Classic, New Classic, Luxury modern, Moroccan & Art deco), she easily switches between designs creating a unique harmony world, starting from the structure columns and how they are been merged in the interior space. she understands client’s dream and bring it into reality. She was born in Egypt, origin of art that is all around.
The secret of distinctive design is the structured study for the space & the synchronized communication with our clients. We master all details starting from columns, cladding, ceiling, furniture & lighting; we select materials and products cooping the gulf environments and the functionality for each space.
Interior Design is one of the most important structure for any space… You can’t live in a concrete space with blocks just divided to rooms…. We generate the balance for each space with lines, products, materials, colors and lighting which affect on people thoughts and life… for example, thinking loudly, if you spend all your days in a black room, it will affect disturb your mood, thoughts and you will become more aggressive and depressed. in addition, from medical perspective, room’s lighting has a major effect on your eye’s health.
Interior design isn’t just a mix of any colors and materials. We start from capturing and understanding our clients’ needs and expectations, then we launch lots of research before any line is drawn or a brick is laid, in some cases we identify that we can translate customer requirement even better than they do. That’s why we have been called ‘Masters’ from first client meeting. For a boutique home-grown practice like ours, we aren’t just concerned with design, we focus on all and every small detail; it is just like the difference between a big factory with production line copying same carpets and a handmade carpet which took a reasonable time to craft each piece on it.
Sample of our projects all along UAE:
Luxury contemporary villa in Um el Suqeim- Dubai
A luxury modern style Villa located in the heart of um el Suqeim, Dubai , where we used the book match of Volakas & Laurent marble with oak brown stripped wood, decorated with black glass & touch of gold which make a unique luxury mood board in a Size of 1800 sq./m; it is composed from ground, first & roof floors…Once You enter the villa, you feel welcomed in a world of stripped lines mixed with the book match lines and the reflection of the pieces of black mirror with a unique black console and double height chandelier. Then you will be captured by another space with a gold partition and a lounge which put you in front of luxury stairs.
dinning room by KAF Designs & Fit-outdinning room by KAF Designs & Fit-outluxury entrance with laurent architrave marble & gold touch stainless with unique brabbu console by KAF Designs & Fit-outluxury entrance with volakas bookmatch & black marble console by KAF Designs & Fit-outStairs by KAF Designs & Fit-outVilla lobby by KAF Designs & Fit-outMajlis by KAF Designs & Fit-outMajlis by KAF Designs & Fit-out
Contemporary Art Deco villa in UAE:
Another contemporary art deco villa located in Abu Dhabi. This villa is a mixture of art deco & luxury modern where we used the grey shadows of wood and a touch of gold with the dark navy velvet blue. With Size of 700 sq./m, it composes of ground, first & roof floors… the villa entrance shift you to a world of greys shadow letting you feel of the historic luxury palace and a unique console with a unique rich stair. Then you will be carried out by another space with a huge art deco architrave, puts you with small seating dark mysterious navy blue and high round cozy living.
Family living by KAF Designs & Fit-outLuxury dinning by KAF Designs & Fit-out
Contemporary Moroccan Villa located in NAD el Sheba:
Another villa located in Nad el Sheba, Dubai. It is a contemporary Moroccan style, on-where we used the unique arches of Moroccan and fine line of modern style & decorated with brass & light grey marble… simplicity is the heart of this villa sized of 600 sq./m of, it composed from ground, first floors… with a small entrance builtof simple arches and a unique console & a contemporary stair, that is looking to a huge courtyard inside the villa allocating you to a full Moroccan world.
Villa Entrance by KAF Designs & Fit-outVilla Entrance by KAF Designs & Fit-outMoroccan living by KAF Designs & Fit-outContemporary Moroccan villa majlis by KAF Designs & Fit-outContemporary Moroccan villa by KAF Designs & Fit-outContemporary Moroccan villa by KAF Designs & Fit-outContemporary Moroccan villa by KAF Designs & Fit-out
And now accompanying you in a tour across our different projects:
Luxury modern Majlis by KAF Designs & Fit-outLuxury modern Majlis by KAF Designs & Fit-outLuxury modern Majlis by KAF Designs & Fit-outLuxury modern Majlis by KAF Designs & Fit-outLuxury master bedroom by KAF Designs & Fit-outLuxury bathroom by KAF Designs & Fit-outLuxury modern Majlis by KAF Designs & Fit-outLuxury modern Majlis by KAF Designs & Fit-outluxury dresser by KAF Designs & Fit-out
Chinese architecture studio MAD has revealed its design for Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing, China, which will see the studio rebuild a historical railway station and complement it with a new underground terminal.
MAD’s development will see two sunken waiting halls lit through skylights and glass curtain walls built on either side of existing overground platforms, while a basement level will contain extensive shopping areas under a redeveloped park.
At the centre of the 35.4 hectares proposal will be a fullscale reconstruction of the historical Jiaxing train station, which was originally constructed in 1907 but destroyed in the second Sino-Japanese war in 1937.
The historical building, which will stand alongside the new solar panel-topped buildings, will form the entrance to the new train station.
It will be visible underground from inside the tunnel that will take visitors from the waiting hall to the platforms.
MAD hopes its design will set Jiaxing’s Train Station in the Forest apart from others in the country.
The existing Jiaxing train station, which had reached its capacity, will be encompassed by the new scheme and turned into the Jiaxing Railway History Museum.
The capacity of the train station will be updated with the new design, and it will now serve six tracks instead of five, with overall passenger capacity expected to reach 5.28 million people per year.
In addition to transportation functions, the underground areas of the Jiaxing train station will also house shopping areas.
They will be connected to the park above through sunken courtyards, while sunken municipal roads will link the underground areas to bus terminals as well as a tramway, metro, car parking and taxi stands.
A new above-ground commercial area will be created south of the station with landscaped lawns that can be used for events and festivals.
“The scheme’s emphasis on connecting with its surroundings will also serve to increase human activity and visitors to the area, enhance its commercial offering, and ultimately rejuvenate the old city centre with a new vitality,” MAD said.
Construction of the station began in 2019, and it is expected to be completed by July 2021.
zaha hadid architects and leigh & orange (L&O) have unveiled the new design for a student housing complex at the hong kong university of science and technology (HKUST). embedded within a steeply sloping site at the southeast of the university campus, the student residence development is characterized by a rooftop walkway that serves as the primary circulation. the university’s new halls of residence will house over 1.500 students, while the project is planned for completion in 2023.
zaha hadid architects (ZHA) and leigh & orange (L&O)’s design for the new student housing complex at HKUST marries advanced digital design technologies with sustainable construction practices and operational strategies for its 50-year life cycle. the project is located at the southeast of the campus, embedded within a steeply sloping site of approximately 25m of level difference. its roof line has been designed as its primary circulation and incorporates shaded outdoor areas for students and staff to rest and gather, helping to build a stronger cross-campus culture. the rooftop walkway also creates a new connection between the academic blocks of the north campus and the primarily residential blocks of the south.
the complex is organized in a hexagonal configuration that creates four courtyards terraced into the steeply sloping site. with all rooms facing open spaces, the approximately 35.500 sqm of accommodation includes communal areas for living, learning, recreation and leisure. the courtyards are designed to be quieter spaces for rest and relaxation, while the surrounding hillside will be replanted to prevent soil erosion with zones for exercise and social activities.
the residences are arranged in three differing ‘clusters’ that combine communal living spaces with a varying number of single or double occupancy bedrooms. the ‘Y’ cluster apartments accommodate 27 students with study areas, relaxation lounge and kitchen, while the ‘V’ clusters house 36 students in a split level apartment with a double-height living space and stairs connecting the quieter study lounge on upper floor with the dining-kitchen area on lower level. finally, the ‘linear’ cluster of apartments house 18 students and include an open plan living area with kitchen that can be subdivided by partitions when required.
digital design tools allowing simultaneous considerations of numerous site parameters including terrain levels, solar radiation, sightlines and soil conditions have defined the design’s optimal configuration and orientation. at the same time, the the digital encoding of its internal spaces enabled layout tests to optimize functionality and adaptability, as well as accurate calculation of natural light levels. following hong kong government’s initiatives to increase build quality while also reducing construction time and waste, the building’s modular systems include pre-assembled façade units and washroom pods that are quickly installed on-site.
the façade units are designed as a series of prefabricated modules that incorporate 70mm of thermal insulating layers and double glazed windows with a low shading co-efficient. digital mapping evaluations of solar paths and heat gain have determined the geometries of the external solar shading fins positioned above the windows within the façade units. also determined by these digital mapping evaluations, different colours of ceramic tiles are applied to flat areas of each precast façade module that vary in shade dependent on the solar heat gain calculated for each unit, creating a continuous mural that visualizes the building’s micro-climate and thermal considerations.
Piyandeling is a new project consisting of The Residence and Artisan Workshop The concept is elaborated from the previously Realrich Architecture Workshop (well known by RAW Architecture)’s “Guha” project. Piyandeling is located in a tranquil area of Mekarwangi Village, North Bandung.
The Residence consists of a three-storey house with a grid 3.0 x 3.0 m for 1 family consists of 2 kid bedrooms, 1 master bedroom, and shared bathrooms. The building envelope is openable which is constructed with recycled 300 x 600 mm plastic panels to cover and protect the inner bamboo structure. The plastic panel is recycled from 99 percent Sumarah Pavilion, that is why the residence is named Sumarah.
The envelope forms an 800 mm service corridor with double cross air ventilation and double wall insulations to the core living space of the building. This forms an adaptation of traditional and more industrial approaches mixing traditional joineries and glued joinery of bamboo. The technique is elaborated from Guha Bambu and Alfa Omega Project. which allows the experimentation of 3 storey of the bamboo structure by the diagonal bamboo structure of the floor plate construction.
Construction of Piyandeling is designed as an exercise using 3 types of main material such as recycled plastic, a local type of sympodial bamboo, and local stone for the foundation. The composition started as an exploration on how bamboo craftsmanship integrated with modular rectangular space to create such integrated craft carving bamboo composition from the ceiling, floor, column, door handle, lock, and finishing details handcrafted in site creating art and craft composition in the whole integrated space.
The Artisan workshop which is named Kujang is a two-storey floating structure for an open-air hall for meetings and gatherings connecting with organic farms. It is constructed from the 4 – 5 m grids of bamboo structure and covered with Nipah leaf combined with a waterproofing membrane for the roof. Forming the Julang Ngapak as a traditional West Java vernacular building, the playful balustrade of bent bamboo is played as a more elaborated hyperboloid form, it is stronger, and more flexible and creates a silhouette of the natural movement of birds or movement of Kujang which is a traditional weapon in Sunda Tradition.
The other building (named saderhana) is basically a simple 1 storey of two buildings on the perimeter as dentist space, and design studio, and the underground space. The 1 storey building was constructed with stone as a platform and bamboo as a roof providing a “Talahap” / overlapping curve traditional bamboo construction covered with layers of waterproofing membrane and Nipah. The underground studio is constructed with bamboo skeletal and concrete which forms a retention wall and carved bamboo shape formworks. The idea is creating finishes that are raw, basic, humble, and honest in the expression and forming such economic sensitivity.
