Indonesian architecture practice Dhani? & Sal has completed Mawi Garage in South Tangerang, creating a steel structure that references the engineering of the cars and motorcycles inside.
The client, a car collector, tasked the local practice with renovating an existing 488-square-metre shed that housed his extensive fleet, as well as extending it to add a small office space and apartment.
The studio renovated an existing 488-square-metre shed
Located on a large, one-acre estate surrounded by gardens, Dhani? & Sal stripped back the existing building and used it as the basis for a new, "utilitarian" gabled structure of black steel columns and trusses with a corrugated metal roof.
For the exterior of Mawi Garage, the studio created walls of angled metal vents, informed by the hinged, openable windows on older cars like the Land Rover housed inside. The steel structure draws on the engineering of cars and motorcycles
"We would often look for the client's automobile collections for the direction of the design," the studio told Dezeen.
"As rigid and cold as the exterior [of the cars] is, the interiors are still designed ergonomically, based on how they will be in contact with the human body."
"[The garage is] an homage to the object it shelters, a well-known utilitarian off-road automobile," it added.
The shed houses the client's car collection
In the large garage space, the black steel structure has been left entirely exposed, wrap...