Casa Objet

The questions come from the needs of the residents to balance their connection with work/school place, family, and their personal needs. The Casa Objet house, accomplished with the architect firm, Biroe, provides answers to that need through a home that boasts casual and informal attitudes. One of the ways to achieve this is by considering a social integration space in the house vigorously. The priority integration spaces for this particular family mean the kitchen, living room, and family room. These spaces are key to connecting the house between floors, between indoor and outdoor, and between different functions.

For example, we designed a kitchen warehouse behind the kitchen system and connected the dining table to the kitchen island with a T-shape layout. This arrangement blends the people in the area even though each is doing different activities. That reason also directs some of the furniture decisions in the living room. Such as the low back sofa that doesn’t restrict the social flow between the living room and the kitchen, and provides an additional casual “sitting” place on the backrest.

Cocooned inside a U-shape sofa, the living room is an ecosystem of comfort that remains private. Creating a place of its own despite the open layout. An open layout always demands constant push and pull between interior and architectural elements because however much space people need, people always require a degree of privacy. We exercised several camouflaging treatments to cater to this needs, such as the extruded wall of the living room to conceal some view to the front door, the kitchen storage, and the window in rooms upstairs that opens to the second skin of the house. The overall privacy of the house creates a subspace that allows a harmonious connection of people who live in Casa Objet to their private social life and each of their passions.

Seen as a refreshing work, the Casa Objet house is elaborately covered in CASA  Magazine Indonesia in its December 2023 edition.