Atelier House
A home built for making things — where the space to live and the space to create share the same floor, the same light, and the same intention.
Location
Bali, Indonesia
Type
Private Residence
Area
460 meters²
Year
2023
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PROJECT OVERVIEW
Atelier House is a 460 square meter private residence in Bali designed for an owner who works with their hands. The project asked a straightforward question: what does a home look like when the studio isn't an afterthought — when making and living are given equal weight from the very first drawing?
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THE CHALLENGE
Combining a workspace and a home under one roof rarely produces either at its best. The studio becomes too domestic; the home becomes too utilitarian. The challenge was designing a residence where both functions feel complete — where the creative space has the scale and light it needs to work, and the living space has the warmth and separation it needs to rest.
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DESIGN PROCESS
The site's orientation determined everything. We placed the atelier on the north end of the plot to capture consistent, diffused light throughout the day — the kind that doesn't shift dramatically and doesn't cast hard shadows across a work surface. The living quarters were positioned to the south, opening onto a sheltered garden courtyard. A transitional corridor connects both ends — wide enough to double as a display space, quiet enough to function as a pause between one mode and the other.
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THE SOLUTION
Atelier House holds two lives comfortably within one structure. The studio occupies a double-height volume with clerestory windows and a concrete floor built to take whatever is made on it. The home wraps around a courtyard that brings greenery and stillness into the centre of daily life. Where the two meet, the boundary softens — materials bleed from one side to the other, and the light that fills the studio in the morning reaches the kitchen by afternoon. It is a house that works as hard as the person who lives in it.
