Designed by RAW Architecture, Alfa Omega school is an educational building with the spirit of locality. Located on Tangerang city, it sat on 11700 sqm area with the prior condition of swamp and paddy field. The design responded to this unstable soil condition by raising the structure to 2.1 m high above the ground. The site itself was chosen as part of a design scheme, -corresponding to its natural surroundings, in order to give children a sense of closeness to nature, thus invoking outdoor-learning experience.
Photography: Team Indonesia Creative Media (ICM)
(The building integrates 4 modular buildings, with an efficient access point in one central courtyard, due to a limitation of local land zoning of what can be built and what cannot be built.) The solution to answer the brief of the project is to create an optimum collaboration or bridge relationship in the economic and creative process of construction in two important levels of masonry steel and bamboo construction which can enrich the economic impact of the surrounding. Photography:Eric Dinardi
Steel structure, not only for its ability to hold structural load effectively but is also chosen for its construction speed and vigorous durability. The whole building based on this framework, from foundation to roof component. Steel in its variation from thickness to treatments, opening chances in versatile details of the design. While bamboo, on the other hand, is a flexible matter that requires little maintenance in a long r...