The matte-black volume contains scenes of the surrounding forest “like a natural painting” Home In BaliIndonesia, designed by local architecture studio Senyum Design.
Located on a large site of 3200 square meters in the coastal village of Kedungu, Jahten House is divided into two lower volumes connected by a ramped corridor that traverses the undulating landscape.
Senyum Design These volumes are covered with fully textured, black clay plaster that, depending on the viewing angle, either creates a dramatic shadow or blends in with the dark foliage of the forest.
“The layout of the project was a response to the site itself, with the two volumes of the house carefully placed along the site’s sloping land,” the studio told Dezeen.
“(The black plaster) represents the same texture and color as the river rock gorge system below and, because the house is quite large, this materiality also allowed it, within reason, to be hidden among the neighboring forest,” it added.
A long path through an area of grass creates an axis that leads directly into the living, dining and kitchen area and out onto a terrace and infinity pool overlooking the forest beyond.
The house’s curved ramped corridor leads to the entrance to the site, where a small volume houses two additional en-suite bedrooms that open onto a concrete terrace.
At both ends of the site, sculptural seating areas with low benches covered in matching black plaster provide vantage points from which to view the landscape.
“For people entering the property this opening sequence shows the shape of the land, the form of the house, and then hints at the views beyond,” the studio explained.
“Once entering the home through the front door, the immediacy of the view beyond is the most important moment in the design.”
“This beautiful scene has been framed as precisely as possible, to feel like a natural painting around which the home’s living area revolves,” said Senum Design.
A concrete floor extends seamlessly from the terraces to the house, with space created for the existing trees on the site to grow.
Matte-black plaster has also been used to line the semi-external terraces of the house internally, with off-white plaster used to line the living spaces and bedrooms.
“It provides warmth to the interior, and works within the duality of light and dark, inside and outside, openness and privacy with which the house has tried to play,” the studio said.
Elsewhere in Indonesia, Tamara Wibowo Architects recently completed a House in Samrang consisting of two sections made of burnt wood united by a concrete roof,
In Jakarta, Ismail Solehudin Architecture was built House with angular clay-tiled roof based on traditional houses In the area.
Photography is courtesy of Senyum Design.
