Tucked away in Jakarta’s business district is the Stalk Tree-Hugger. It is designed by RAD+ar, and it embraces five existing tall trees with a parametric fabric, building a mesmerizing play of light and shadows to support different commercial activities. The project focuses on creating a unique spatial experience while adopting and maintaining a simple yet functional design. The design is intended to be in complete harmony and tandem with the surrounding greenery. It includes a restaurant and lounge, protected by the shifting shadows of the trees, building an intimate and interesting ambiance.
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Visitors are welcomed into the restaurant which feels inviting and yet mysterious. The tensile structures form dynamic patterns as they move harmoniously with the wind and the swaying trees, fostering an architectural setting that is nature-centric and feels quite comforting. The entrance is subtly merged with vertical plants, and it leads to a narrow, greenery-lined foyer that holds an upper bar-restaurant amidst the trees.
The aforementioned upper bar-restaurant is topped with a lightweight steel-timber thatch roof. This unique roof provides shade and support to the parametric tensile structure. The roof doubles up as a facade and a diverse ceiling, transforming into a lovely lantern at night, that subtly enriches the cityscape, and elevates the ambiance of the space for different events, including music performances.
The bar-restaurant occupies around 750 square meters, and it offers a unique experience unlike F&B outlets. The design team at RAD+ar was led by Antonius Richard, and they wanted to demonstrate how minimal intervention in nature can create versatile and interesting spaces for commercial activities. This project was a study by them, to understand how to better reduce natural interference while retaining the commercial value of the land.
The project is a wonderful specimen of flexibility since it proves how experimentations with limitless permutations for natural elements and lighting are possible while causing minimal impact and disturbance to the existing landscape. The firm wanted to create a dynamic and free-flowing space that cleverly incorporates nature, and they were successful in doing so.
They utilized attractors that created constantly changing properties. The different buildings also served as revolving shadows, letting visitors have an interesting experience under the shadows. The movement of the trees and the flowing wind helped to form a relaxing and tranquil space, where visitors can peacefully observe nature, and be around it.
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