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GF House

Modern lines, and a frame made to vanish.

Architect
Studio Air Putih
Interior
Genius Loci
Lighting
Hadi Komara
Main contractor
Cartide Surabaya
System
FREMO Invisi & Contemporary · TECHNAL Ambial & Topaze
Twin charcoal gables above a base of split natural stone — the street elevation.
Twin charcoal gables above a base of split natural stone — the street elevation.

GF House carries the idea that runs through all of Artemi's work to its quiet conclusion — the disappearance of the frame. Conceived by Studio Air Putih as a pair of charcoal gables rising from a base of split natural stone, the residence is resolutely modern: minimal, restrained, and organised around large, calm planes of glass. Throughout, the FREMO Invisi sliding system carries that glass on the slimmest of sightlines, while two TECHNAL systems — Ambial and Topaze — resolve the openings that ask for something more. The engineering is everywhere, and visible nowhere.

An Invisible Frame

The character of the house is set by what you do not see. Its principal openings use the FREMO Invisi sliding system, chosen to keep the architecture modern, minimal and slim. Every bottom track is clad in the same marble as the floor, so the threshold reads as one unbroken plane underfoot; the side and head tracks are recessed into the wall, so that — open or closed — only the glass remains. It is the quietest possible meeting of inside and out, and it lets the garden, the pool and the light reach far into the plan.

The double-height living room opens to the garden on FREMO Invisi sliding — the sill clad in marble, the frame lost in the wall.
The double-height living room opens to the garden on FREMO Invisi sliding — the sill clad in marble, the frame lost in the wall.
From the covered terrace the same frameless threshold runs out to timber decking and the golf course beyond.
From the covered terrace the same frameless threshold runs out to timber decking and the golf course beyond.

Folding & Sliding

Where an opening had to do more than slide, two TECHNAL systems take over. At the garden gymnasium, the TECHNAL Ambial folding system gathers an entire glazed wall to one side, dissolving the corner so that the room becomes part of the lawn. In the principal bedroom, a TECHNAL Topaze sliding door brings the same slim, dependable precision to a more intimate scale, framing a private court screened in timber.

A glass gymnasium folds fully open to the garden on the TECHNAL Ambial folding system.
A glass gymnasium folds fully open to the garden on the TECHNAL Ambial folding system.
In the principal bedroom, a TECHNAL Topaze slider opens to a quiet, timber-screened court.
In the principal bedroom, a TECHNAL Topaze slider opens to a quiet, timber-screened court.

Gables, Garden & Water

The garden elevation gathers it all up: twin gables above the pool and the open living level, and below them a sunken koi court in split stone, reached through a door running on FREMO Contemporary.

The garden elevation — twin gables above the pool and the open living level.
The garden elevation — twin gables above the pool and the open living level.
A sunken koi court in split stone; the door out to the stair runs on FREMO Contemporary.
A sunken koi court in split stone; the door out to the stair runs on FREMO Contemporary.

Collaborators

Architect
Studio Air Putih — Denny Gondo and Joke Roos’s Tangerang studio, known for a modern, simple and tropical architecture.
Interior
Genius Loci — Alex Bayusaputro’s pan-Asian practice; interiors built around the spirit of place.
Lighting
Hadi Komara & Associates — a Jakarta architectural-lighting consultancy with over two decades of residential and civic work.
Main contractor
Cartide Surabaya — the Surabaya contractor who brought the residence to completion.

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