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FEATURE: prihal arsitektur andramatin
THE SINGAPORE ARCHITECT
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After the timeline, the exhibition is broken into 6 more sections — Jakarta, Other Cities, Form, Material, Recurrence, and Everyday — that do however flow as one continuous path. The first two sections cover the studio’s projects, always with a white 1:200 scale model, but other aspects of the practice are also unveiled in the other sections. In “Recurrence”, a screening of interviews in a dark room show andramatin’s regular clients explaining their trust in “Mas Aang” (architect’s nickname), and how they like to work together. In “Everyday”, a scene in the office is physically recreated in another room complete with workstations, large construction drawings, and postit notes on the wall. In “Form”, 49 models are displayed in a completely dark room. Each model is softly lit with concealed LEDs, such that one only sees floating forms in the space. The presentation was successful, because in this way, slowly perusing the models, one begins to see the angles, blocks, and formal manouevres that is consistently deployed in his work — what approaches a familiar vocabulary of the architect.
(Top) 1:200 scale model of the National Monument Park takes up an entire room for display. (Bottom) Model of Rumah Kos DH (house) at 1:200 scale (Opposite Page) Immersive room surrounded by the vent blocks that the studio is fond of using in their projects Photographer: Jonathan Raditya
EXHIBITION LAYOUT
The exhibition was staged at the National Gallery of Indonesia, which does not charge for its shows but at the same time does not allow branding by sponsors within the exhibition content. The organisers have thus been blessed with many generous sponsors who believed in the architect’s work and had given their wholehearted support.