对于一代人来说，生活在热带地区绝不是简单地躲避雨水和阳光。热带建筑 “的历史最早可以追溯到热带本土社会的开始，在保持规范的同时，被改造成不同的文化。很多时候，它的斜屋顶和悬挑的刻板印象被许多旅游区所称颂，但讽刺的是，在这个全球化的时代，它被遗弃在热带建筑探索和发展的道路上。
For Generation, living in the tropics is never simply about avoiding the rain and the sun. The history of “tropical architecture” can be traced back as early as the beginning of indigenous tropical vernacular society that being adapted into different cultures while maintaining the norms. Oftentimes, it got its stereotype of pitched roof and overhangs that being celebrated in many tourist area, but ironically being left out in the path of tropical architecture searching and development in this globalization era.
在今天这样一个环境和能源危机的时代，气候设计必须在当代建筑表达的最新实验和研究中做出胜利的回归，将建筑与周围的环境和位置联系起来，以实现建筑与热带自然的和谐，这样可以为未来的建筑师进行调整和修改，以确保什么是最好的，更大的利益。
In the days of environmental and energy crisis like today, the climatic design has to make a triumphal comeback with more adjustment for the latest experimentation and research of contemporary architectural expression, which relates the buildings to their surroundings and location in order to achieve harmony between architecture and tropical nature, so it could be adapted and modified for future architect to come, in order to ensure what is best for greater good.
设计作为RAD+ar（研究艺术设计+建筑）的主要办公室，被用作探索的画布，我们如何能够适应热带建筑的乡土空间精神，同时尝试其自身的微气候/微热带性。
Design is functioned as main office of RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture), and being used as an exploration canvas of how can we adapt the spirit of vernacular spaces of tropical architecture while experimenting with its own Micro climate / Micro Tropicality.
“微热带性 “是指在设计建筑时对气候和人类经验的要求作出反应。它不仅仅是增加一个屋檐来遮挡门或窗户的阳光和雨水，设计一个伞形屋顶，但同时也要通风和照明，使景观密集的树叶，以通风和刷新环境。就是要设计一个 “多层外墙”，以减少辐射，将微风引入室内，为窗户遮阳，为墙壁降温，并引导视野。最后，必要元素的总和给这个热带建筑带来了自由的表现力，这与昏暗的空间是一致的，这也是幸福的条件。设计是为了展示建筑和热带环境之间的对话，可能会打破热带建筑方法的一些基本准则。
“Micro Tropicality” is to design the building responding to the demands of the climate and the human experiences. It is much more than just to add an eave to cover a door or a window of rain and sun, design an umbrella roof but at the same time to ventilate and illuminate, to make the landscape dense in foliage in order to ventilate and refresh the environment. It is to design a “multilayer facade” to reduce radiation, to direct the breeze inside, to shade the windows, to cool the walls and to direct the views. In the end, the sum of necessary elements gives a free expressiveness to this tropical architecture, which is congruent with the dimly lit space, which is a condition for well-being. Design is to demonstrate a dialogue between architecture and tropical environments that may breaks some basic code of Tropical Architecture approach:
留住水的同时引导它，而不是直接引导/避免雨水。
热带地区巨大的坡屋顶角度是受其历史方法的影响，即以极大的效率将水引向地面，从而使建筑能够承受大雨和极端季节。然而，随着结构创新在日常规划中的应用，大多数建筑仍然采用这种方法，没有足够的方式来保留水。设计是为了树立一个榜样，说明如何在尽可能多地吸收水并慢慢释放出来供以后使用的同时，仍然能够分配水的负荷。从所有场地吸收的100%的雨水以后将用于全部灌溉。
Retaining water while channeling it vs directly channeling / avoiding rainwater.
Dramatic angle of pitch roof in tropics were influenced by its historical approach of channeling water to the ground with great efficiency so the building might endure heavy rain and extreme season. However, as structural innovation has been adapted into daily planning, most building still adopted this approach without an adequate manner of retaining the water. Design is to set an example of how one can still distribute water load while trying to absorb as much water as possible and release it slowly for later usage. 100% Rain water absorbed from all the site later to be used for total irrigation.
功能性外墙/无外墙与文化暗示。由于热带地区的规范已被整合了数百年，大多数热带建筑都有不成文的准则/方式，即如何将立面与屋顶整合。设计是为了树立一个榜样，说明如何将功能与美学方法相结合。
Functional façade / no façade vs cultural allusion. As tropical norm has been integrated for hundreds of years, most tropical building has unwritten guideline / manners of how one should integrate façade approach with its roof. Design is to set an example of how functionality can be integrated with aesthetical approach.
深层建筑的最大照明策略与窄层建筑的最大照明策略。为了最大限度地减少白天人工照明的使用，大多数热带地区的法规都建议最大的平面宽度为12米，这导致了对建筑体量配置的限制。设计是在18米深的平面内尝试渐进式的垂直开口，以便在不影响形式和空间的情况下最大限度地增加白天的自然照明。
Deep plan building with maximum illumination strategy vs narrow plans. In order to minimize the usage of artificial lighting during productive daytime, most tropical code are recommending 12m of maximum plan’s width that leads to limitation of massing configuration. Design is to experiment with puncturing gradual vertical opening within 18m deep plan in order to maximize natural lighting during daytime without compromising form and space.
通过东西向和南北向来调节内部温度。由于极端的热量散发，大多数热带建筑倾向于使用南北朝向，以最大限度地提高照明，同时减少传入建筑的热量。设计是在建筑的东面和西面进行立面实验，利用这个机会创造更大的温差，控制其自身的小气候。
Manipulating internal temperature thru East West vs North South Orientation. Due to extreme heat emitted, most tropical buildings tend to use north south orientation to maximize illumination while minimize heat transmitted to the building. Design is to experiment with Façade surface on the east and west of the building and use that opportunity to create a greater temperature difference that control its own microclimate.
一个认识到热带纬度的特殊性并展示其富有表现力的设计准则的建筑将加强当地文化，并将以更好的方式承载人们的经验，适应该地的空间性，并将认识到社会经济和人类条件；这一系列的属性将促进他们的占有和认可。
An architecture that recognizes the specificities of tropical latitudes and demonstrates its expressive design guidelines will reinforce the local culture and will, in a better way, host people’s experiences, adapt to the spatiality of the place and will recognize the socioeconomic and human conditions; a set of attributes that will facilitate their appropriation and recognition.
Architects: RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)
Area: 450 m²
Year: 2020
Photographs: William Sutanto
Manufacturers: Toto, Mulia, Taco HPL
Architect In Charge:Antonius Richard
Design Team:Felda Zakri, Dadi Prasojo, Partogi Pandiangan, Leviandri
Client:Antonius Richard
Engineering:RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)
Landscape:RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)
Consultants:RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture)
Collaborators:Monogeneral Contractor
City:Jakarta
Country:Indonesia