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Architects: UOS Architecture Studio
- Area: 150 m²
- Year: 2022
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Photographs:Indra Wiras
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Manufacturers: Dekkson Lock, Infinity Granite Tiles, Toto
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Lead Architect: Banyu Priautama
Text description provided by the architects. Built on a site in a rural area on the outside of Ubud region, Bali, which is still surrounded by rice fields and plantations, Villa LDT is two units of villas with an identical design with each villa having a land area of 200 SQM and a building area of 150 SQM with a space program, two bedrooms, living room, kitchen, dining, and a private swimming pool. This is a one-storey building and has a main concept of responding to the context of the site and the surrounding conditions. The design concern is to create a humble proportions mass that can be harmonious in the middle of the rice fields area, without blocking the view of guests when they enter to villa from the main road, and not damaging the skyline of the rice fields and plantations around the site.
The challenge in planning this design is how architects are required to design a one-story building, with a fairly complex space program on a relatively small site with a longitudinal shape. Designing the shape of the building is the next challenge so that the mass of the building does not seem to have elongated proportions and becomes conspicuous in the middle of the rice fields, as well as how user privacy is maintained in it.
The design of the building mass follows the shape of the existing site, but the design of the roof shape and the proportion of the building mass are important points to reduce the boring impression of this design. With relatively high rainfall in this area, the use of plana roofs is an effort to design the direction of rainwater falling into the planned catchment area. The architect decided to create a shape of the roof, where it is designed in the form of a compound roof mass or it looks stacked between one side and the other, and in an effort to reduce the impression of being elongated, the wall between the bedroom and living room is continued upwards so that it looks like it is splitting the roof. The results of this design are successful enough to give a humble impression and in harmony with the skyline of the environment.
The facade of the building tends to be closed from the front side with solid walls finished with local natural stone and places a wide opening to the back of the building. The use of brownish-gray natural stone (paras tuling agung) on the entire facade of the building is one of the factors to make the building more in harmony with its surroundings and is combined with bricks as an accent at the main door entering the villa.
The orientation of the room created is based on the potential view towards the back, which has a private pool with rice fields as the background. The rooms all face the back, and have their backs to the front area, in an effort to maintain privacy. The program is arranged in a row to the side following the elongated shape of the site, with the concept that each room must have a view, with a service room at the front to block noise and visuals from the road (front). Simple, aligned, and eye-catching are the three concluding words that define this project.
