Atarashii House / Rakta Studio

Architects: Rakta Studio
Area: 1000 m²
Year: 2025
Photography: KIE
Manufacturers: JUNG, Blanco, Kaii Living – Wood Working, Kohler, MIWALOCK, Quadra Surface, TOTO Sanitary Wares, YKK AP Asia
Lead Architects: Vidor Saputro, Darryl Fernaldi
Landscape: House of Olive, Nirwana Landscape
Design Team: Vidor Saputro, Darryl Fernaldi, Hamdani Abdul Rahman
Engineering: Vonny Valentina
Collaborators: Aseha Interior, Hiraki Lighting, Kaii Living
Clients: Agus & Mey
City/Location: Padalarang
Country: Indonesia

Atarashii House by Rakta Studio embodies a refined approach to modern tropical living, emphasizing spatial fluidity and environmental responsiveness. Designed for a private residence in Padalarang, the 1000-square-meter home integrates nature as both structure and spirit, centering its layout around a lush courtyard and reflective pool. Expansive glazing and open-plan interiors maximize light and ventilation, while natural materials—chiefly wood, concrete, and stone—lend warmth and tactility. The residence adopts a looped circulation system, allowing a continuous connection between social, private, and wellness spaces. Its energy-efficient strategy relies on passive cooling and cross-ventilation, resulting in a tranquil, low-impact home that blurs the threshold between indoor and outdoor environments. The project underscores Rakta Studio’s commitment to sustainability, craftsmanship, and the sensory balance between luxury and landscape.

Rakta Studio’s Atarashii House reinterprets tropical modernism through a calm yet deliberate architectural language. The residence unfolds around a central courtyard, where a mature olive tree and reflective pool anchor the spatial composition. This courtyard is not only a visual centerpiece but a climatic moderator, cooling the surrounding interiors through natural ventilation and evaporation. By shaping the home’s plan as a continuous loop, the architects encourage an uninterrupted experience of movement, light, and air—a design rhythm that echoes the organic flow of the site itself.

Each space within the residence is positioned to engage directly with the courtyard, ensuring that the natural landscape becomes an intrinsic part of daily life. The living, dining, and kitchen areas are united within a single open volume that captures both light and views, while warm timber surfaces balance the rigor of exposed concrete and glass. A long dining table forms the social heart of the home, complemented by a lounge arranged around a timber-clad media wall and display shelving that introduces a sense of intimacy and personalization.

On the upper level, private spaces extend the home’s dialogue with nature through terraces veiled in greenery and cascading vines. The glass-enclosed gym, slightly cantilevered over the pool, epitomizes the home’s tranquil luxury—its transparency merging physical wellbeing with visual serenity. Throughout, Rakta Studio’s material palette favors authenticity and sensory texture, emphasizing handcrafted woodwork and precision detailing supplied by local artisans.

The landscape design, realized in collaboration with House of Olive and Nirwana Landscape, reinforces the dwelling’s connection to its tropical setting. The interplay of water, foliage, and built form generates a microclimate that tempers the heat while nurturing an immersive sense of calm. This environmental intelligence extends beyond aesthetics; it represents a holistic understanding of sustainability as lived experience rather than technical feature.

Atarashii House exemplifies how contemporary Indonesian architecture can evolve within the tropics without sacrificing identity or comfort. Through its sensitive integration of structure, material, and nature, Rakta Studio has created more than a residence—it is a sanctuary of balance, where openness and privacy, modernity and tradition, coexist in quiet equilibrium.