Clay House, Lombok Island, Images, Architect, Indonesian Architecture
Clay House on Lombok Island
Home and Pool, Indonesia ? design by Budi Pradono Architects
13 Jul 2017
Clay House
Design: Budi Pradono Architects
Location: Lombok Island, Indonesia

Clay House on Lombok Island
This house is located in Selong Belanak. Southern part of central Lombok Island in West Nusa Tenggara. It is 30 minutes drive from Lombok International Airport of Praya. The owner named it Seven Heaven Residence.

Understanding the Space of a Place

This site location is on a hill. From which you can see the paddy fields and the vast expanseive of land and sea. When given a task to design this house, the most fundamental question is how to recognize or know the character of a place. The first thing to do is to create a mass composition where the pool is used as the center primary for organizing the quality of public spaces as well as their private space in the composition of the space, Which can simultaneously utilize the entire view on the surrounding buildings. Observations in this location also determines the extent of the building to be constructed. An understanding of the contours, trees and surrounding land will determine the character of this building.
Iconography and Weak Architecture

In the presence of this location on the hill of course Budi Pradono Architects had to be careful because this building will automatically become an icon of the surrounding environment. The architecture is mad...