Recently, Jakarta architectural design studio Noema released their latest project, House in Kelapa Gading. It is a small building built in a dense residential area in North Jakarta. Located on a site of 100 square meters with a net width of more than 6 meters, the client wanted to create a special type of home, inspired by the Japanese compact house layout, to suit their minimalist lifestyle.

Owners record and file every item they own and replace it with a new one. Therefore, the interior needs to have space to accommodate the items they use frequently. The walls are transformed into "storage walls" with flexible furniture design and multi-functional auxiliary Spaces. How to strategically coordinate the relationship between the wall and the tall locker to avoid the crowded and narrow visual feeling in the room has become a major design challenge.

To this end, Noema designed a stratified house that creates a continuous space. Through this strategy, the flow lines of the three separate floors are integrated to maximize the use of functional Spaces such as living room, dining room, kitchen and bedroom. Each level is visually connected to each other, creating a continuous, flowing sense of space while maintaining the privacy of their respective areas.

Multiple gaps are left between the floors to bring light into the space and create different situations within a single area, making the interior interesting. For example, when you enter the door, you are greeted by an empty area filled with sunlight, and you can admire moringa trees in the enclosed garden next to the living room. Then in the bedroom, the moringa tree becomes the visual focus of the bed, and the light projected from above reflects each other, creating a sacred and living painting. Although the bedroom is located in the center of the house, due to the different levels, lying on the bed can be seen outside the sky, clouds and starry night.