Permeable Junction Boarding House / Andyrahman Architect

Permeable Junction Boarding House / Andyrahman Architect - Interior Photography, Table, BeamPermeable Junction Boarding House / Andyrahman Architect - Interior Photography, TablePermeable Junction Boarding House / Andyrahman Architect - Exterior Photography, HandrailPermeable Junction Boarding House / Andyrahman Architect - Image 5 of 26Permeable Junction Boarding House / Andyrahman Architect - More Images+ 21

Surabaya, Indonesia
  • Architect In Charge: Cipta Hadi
  • City: Surabaya
  • Country: Indonesia
More SpecsLess Specs
Permeable Junction Boarding House / Andyrahman Architect - Interior Photography, Table, Beam
© Mansyur Hasan

Text description provided by the architects. Permeable is a biological term, which in this case is intended as breaking the boundary between two different or even opposite things. This is a fundamental concept of Keputih Boarding House Volume 6, which is in taxa (ambiguous) condition, both generally and in detail, as well as emphasizing its Nusantara aspect. This boarding house is, indeed, designed with a pattern that penetrates each other. Two things that seem separated can become one, blended or penetrated, to make the seen boundaries unclear. In the boarding house context, these two things can be theory and practice, action and reaction, rational and irrational, solid and void, outside and inside, and many other things.

Permeable Junction Boarding House / Andyrahman Architect - Exterior Photography, Handrail
© Mansyur Hasan
Permeable Junction Boarding House / Andyrahman Architect - Image 16 of 26
Floor plans
Permeable Junction Boarding House / Andyrahman Architect - Image 19 of 26
Concept diagram
Permeable Junction Boarding House / Andyrahman Architect - Interior Photography, Stairs, Windows, Handrail
© Mansyur Hasan

Just like in the Nusantara architecture as an example, it doesn’t matter if it is outside or inside, they don’t separate it. When in the Candi Borobudur temple, entering means climbing up, because being outside is just the same as being inside. This boarding house is also like that, the tree that was an outdoor element carried inside and creates ambiguity: is it outside or inside?. Well, it can be both. Communal space is a gathering area that can be used for joint activities, which is one of the characteristics of Nusantara architecture, rooms that break individual territories, where people are shaped to have more empathy towards each other. So this boarding house prioritizes the communal space, to give the users a gathering space, as well as socializing and interacting with each other.

Permeable Junction Boarding House / Andyrahman Architect - Interior Photography, Table
© Mansyur Hasan
Permeable Junction Boarding House / Andyrahman Architect - Image 21 of 26
Sunlight diagram
Permeable Junction Boarding House / Andyrahman Architect - Interior Photography, Stairs, Handrail
© Mansyur Hasan

On Nusantara stilt houses, floors are commonly made of wooden strips that have little gaps between each board. From these gaps, air and light flow inside the building. In this boarding house, the wooden strip boards were modernized by using a steel grill, but with the same usage, to circulate the air and light from its gap. Gaps on the grill are wide enough to be see through. People on the first floor can see through the floors above him. This floor is getting ambiguous and a stepping medium while also circulating the air and light.

Permeable Junction Boarding House / Andyrahman Architect - Image 5 of 26
© Mansyur Hasan
Permeable Junction Boarding House / Andyrahman Architect - Image 17 of 26
Graphic view

As for craftsmanship, this project breaks the boundaries between the architect and the craftsmen. They keep on learning: architect learns from the craftsmen, and vice versa. The most obvious thing is the arrangement of bricks that became this building’s facade. Craftsmen tried to understand the design and brick arrangement made by the architect and made it by trying directly on the field. Even though the craftsmen who work on this project are not the regular ones that work with Andyrahman architect, but their spirit of learning and extraordinary determination, they finally complete a unique brick layout and can be proud of as the face of Keputih Boarding House Volume 6.

Permeable Junction Boarding House / Andyrahman Architect - Interior Photography, Table
© Mansyur Hasan

Project gallery

See allShow less
About this office
Cite: "Permeable Junction Boarding House / Andyrahman Architect" 11 Apr 2022. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/979922/permeable-junction-boarding-house-andyrahman-architect> ISSN 0719-8884

© Mansyur Hasan

融入渗透性设计的寄宿公寓 / Andyrahman Architect

You've started following your first account!

Did you know?

You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.