This Earth 2.0 Pavilion, Indonesia, New Indonesian Commercial Development, Architecture Photos
This Earth 2.0 in Indonesia
16 June 2022
Design: Seniman Ruang
Location: Indonesia

Photos: Jo Christian
Talaga Sampireun, Indonesia
Nature has been one of the biggest inspirations for architecture throughout history. The second branch of This Earth designed by Seniman Ruang, continues to redefine the idea of dessert shop experience by taking inspiration from the world’s nature, wrapped through a collaboration of designed environment and beverages products. Celebrating what was formed and came from earth, the second branch of This Earth acted as a demonstration of Biomorphic Architecture, a contemporary design approach influenced by nature to mimic the beauty of our earth.
Located at the beachfront of Batavia Cove, a popular recreational area in Pantai Indah Kapuk, Jakarta, the building adapted the organic form of a seashell and transformed it into a functional architectural structure. It has been said that seashells are nature’s perfect architecture, as a mobile home for a wide variety of mollusks, seashells change their form to meet the needs of the inhabitants and many precedents use it as the basic architecture geometry.

Its curved structure resists load through its inherent curvature that not only dictated the aesthetic value, but overall efficiency and behavior under load of the structural system. Their smooth and round design demonstrates high mobility makes ...