Alam Family Residence is designed by ID-EA. Alam Family Residenceis a private residence fostering the heart of interactive family lifestyle. Alam Family Residenceto host two generations and three households in a single three-storey building. The different levels – one for the parents and two separate ones for the son’s family and the daughter – are designed to balance a certain amount of privacy with a level of interaction.
Design of Alam Family Residence
The frontage of Alam Family Residence is in a way antithetical to the surrounding neighborhood, in which houses are mostly covered with massive fences and guard booths. Alam Family Residenceprefers sharing the front yard through a nearly-transparent fence and pushes the privacy screen inward onto the facade, embracing new found relationships between indoor / outdoor and public / private.
Interior of Alam Family Residence
The interior of Alam Family Residence spaces behind the “graphical breathing brie-soleil” are crystalline white, providing a blank canvas for the constantly changing visual texture interplay of light and shadow. The interior of Alam Family Residence is a series of free-flowing, continuous spaces which are organized around the high volume inner voids that bring light and air deep into the house through both plan and section, while fostering a supportive, interactive family lifestyle. The consistent minimal white palate in the common area gives visual dominance to the bold red prayer niche – representing the family’s tradition in a modern way, the bold yellow aquarium located in the heart of the dining-living areas, the dark wood “rolling carpet” of the staircase, the combination of marble and terrazzo dining floor which define the high volume space and the vegetation in the courtyard.
The highly Alam Family Residence articulated concrete west-facing wall with rational modular perforations acts as a graphical breathing brise-soleil, preventing overheating on the building skin, filtering the abstract light qualities and transforming the space throughout the day and night, while delivering a new appearance, indeed a new identity for the twenty-first century residential world. The roofscape geometry of Alam Family Residence is driven by maximizing roof accessibility that connects the two-storey to three-storey portion of the house which ends on a spectacular view to the east of the site, the gateway to Jakarta Bay’s Thousand Islands, a marina that is more than just a pier with its recreational, scenic and historical value. The roof deck works as an alternative outdoor space for exercise, meditate, play, interaction and creative thinking or simply a place to enjoy the sunrise, while the extensive green roofs help serving the enhancement of urban ecosystems at Alam Family Residence.
