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This 63 storeys apartment consists of 2 main buildings that flanked the  intermediary one that contains alobby, sky garden and also premium units both apartment. The division into 2 buildings is meant to reduce the massiveness and simultaneously in response to the urban design guidelines that requires this complex to become the gate and landmark of kuningan international urban complex.

Modernity in this complex is represented through glass curtain façade at the width part in southern and northern sides; which simultaneously reduced the heat created by direct orientation of the western and eastern parts. The west side of each building features steel trusses construction to depict a triangle from of the building, indicating safety factor for  the inhabitants to live in this 63 storeys structure. Steel construction is also employed to support gardens that are placed on each 8^th floor of the building to actualize the concept of garden apartment

This town house is designed to be leased by expatriates working in semarang. The building is deliberately articulated to provide tropical greeneries between the surrounding environment and building. Dark old wood, terracotta roofing, paras or locally palimanan stone flooring and wall paint’ng of white, grey and milk brown colours creates a situational composition that is different to one another to fit the user and the façade of each unit is designed differently as well to avoid boringness. It turned out the users like it very much! They appreciate such individual treatment of the facades even though the layout floor plan is more or less the same.

The existing contoured land that faces bukit sari valley of ungaran area in semarang, on the other hand allows this townhouse to be designed in such away that each room has equal views. The contour is also a potentialpoint to be articulated into a terrace planting this townhouse to be designed iin such a way that each room has equal views. The contour is also a potential point to be articulated into a terrace planting with a swimming pool being the centre of outdoor activity and panoramic view in this complex.

Conceptually, this house employs two buildings that are perpendicular to one another and being separated by a continuing axis that connects main entrance door to the opening of inner garden. This axis becomems the main circulation of ground floor as well as the upper floor and indirectly connecting the front garden to the inner one, creating ventilation across the central part of the house. As such, it is also indicated by modular squares on upper part of the walls that let lights as well as air get through

The building is designed in modern style and dominated by geometrical mass and planes in the form of boxes and lines being integrated harmoniously with the natural colours of the materials employed. Each segmentof the building looks straightforward and neat without any artificial usages of materials.hence, the building is simple without unnecessary ornament except functional componentssuch as the window frames that are also utilized to feature akind of building’s fins. Details such as door handles, window panes, hand railing and fence are dominated by interplay of thin vertical line to compensate the background that is mostly dominated by massive planes and masses.

Interior object such as furniture and lamps are also worked out by mcp to be in line with the whole design philosophy, which is, employing boxes, rectangular and lines. From the façade it is clear that the architect has successfully utilized all the functions inside for outdoor expressions while from the outside, on the other hand,it is easy to guess where is the reception room, bedrooms, garage and vertical circulation even though space above the garage is misleading because it looks like a study room at a glance.