My Mayonaisse Jar | 4.0

Apa kabar? Selamat datang dirumah kami, studio kecil RAW Architecture yang memiliki keyakinan bahwa arsitektur bisa menyentuh hati. Cerita ini dimulai sejak 2005 ketika saya membaca cerita “the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee” yang berisi prioritas dari besar ke kecil dalam kehidupan yang bisa dirajut bersama teman-teman yang menjadi kenangan.

Saya percaya arsitektur bisa menyentuh hati banyak orang lewat karya, tulisan, dan perjuangan melalui krisis kehidupan. Dalam keyakinan ini, proses kami baru saja dimulai. Terima kasih

How are you? Welcome to our space, a small practice who explores the heartwarming nature of architecture mastery. This story began in 2005 when I read this tale “The Mayonnaise Jar and Two Cups of Coffee,” which explores priorities, from big to small, in life, woven together with friends and creating memories.

I believe architecture can touch the hearts of many through our work, writing, and struggles through life’s crises. In this belief, our journey has just begun. Thank you.

Greetings,

Realrich Sjarief

Phase 1 | 2010 – 2020 : Fire Sparks The Passion

We designed so many projects with client’s and intensive engineers and design team as a way to explore and sharpen the technique. This is the first phase or architecture has a strong layers of technique such as programs, context, and ideas. Many of projects in this phase is the first 20 years of my practice. It closed with Covid as pivotal moment.

Phase 2 | 2020 – next 2030 : Magic Alchemy

It is the phase that we are in now that we tried to bring ourself deeper to architectonic way which I define RAW Architecture culture after Covid – 19. It is a way to understand others through architecture. This phase is the phase of building alchemy or “magical relationship and responsibility” with others.

About Bioclimatic Home and Collective Cave?

For me, the typology of architecture is defined by two mainstreams, one is for personal use, and the other one is for collective purpose. The goal of the personal project is to address someone’s individual needs, character, and expressions yet their own philosophy of life. I believe several values in life that can reflect on architecture. That’s what I share with beautiful individuals in our practice. The project is very customized, and the goal is to make a home for the client.

When we think about the objective to make a home, we should be reminded that in earth, our resources are limited, and the specificity of the location makes the project unique. The materials, the skin, the internal configuration, and the building envelope orientation will be very important. The use of energy and water will be reflected from someone’s life to their ecosystem. That is why I call this one a bioclimatic home. It’s time to combine individual expression and sensitivity towards the earth with it’s limited resources.

The bioclimatic means a building that’s surrounded by the needs, the shadow of the trend, desire, the ambitions. The cave itself is an example of the quest to find the importance of others rather than business, fame, and ambitions to be successful. To be successful mean to make an understated collective cave that can be a memorable place and have a high-performance bioclimatic concept.

The second project is about the journey of serving as humans for the collective soul, sometimes we make architecture for other people to, let’s say, impress them, make the place for sale, make the place for comfort like a space for memory. We call this typical project, a collective project. We share similar goals and identities that bond us as humans who enjoy architecture.

The cave is a result from the intersection of limited sources and we as a human who need to have shelter, therefore, we try to have architecture. The resources should be limitedly use and critically towards the building of the architecture.

The few years when I was a student in ITB, I was a more socially active person, I was in student organization then I become secretary-general and some of the technical coordinator, and planning team who were in discussion about the central theme, vision, and executing the plan into the schedule. I was involved in training new organization members for one year and two years below. The training is ongoing for one year per batch led by the leader of the student organization. The training is about personal and communal on getting to know yourself and how to be collaborative such as knowing your responsibility and practicing leadership.

My role was at backstage; we learn, prepare, and evaluate the implementation of the training. I knew that we are never alone in performing the ideas, and understanding that the picture needs to be pushed, pushing myself to be active unpretentiously while not expecting anything in return is profound to my attitude towards making an effort from concept to execution. I met with many inspiring people during my formative years, few notable one is Ridwan Kamil, Baskoro Tedjo, the Hermit of Atelier 6 Architects, and Eko Purwono and all of the fellow lecturers.

Greetings,

Realrich Sjarief

Hi! Thank you for your interest on contacting us. In case you have interest on our work, please see some of our portfolio here.

In case you are designers who seek for challenges and want to apply to the studio, you can see some of the requirements and fill in the form here, there are several positions available and we are constantly looking for new family.

If you want to pay a visit to 3 of our RAW Architecture’s Office + OMAH Library, here are the locations:

1. Tangerang – Guha the Guild
2. Jakarta – Guha Boboto
3. Bandung – Guha Piyandeling

We are open for public in several session through this reservation link below. See you!

Aries Utama H4 | A
West Jakarta, Indonesia

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