ARCC is a boutique architecture & design studio based in Bali. The studio started in 2014 by its principal and owner Charles Dewanto. Charles started his studio with a mission to push the boundary between architecture, building materials, and craftsmanship. He believes that these elements are inter-related in designing a project that responds to its time, context, and client’s needs . Since 2014, Charles and ARCC has been active with various scales of projects in Indonesia and Australia.

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Villa Katumiri is located in a sloping ground and overlooking the hills and valleys of Cihanjuang in Bandung. The client gave us a brief to come up with a house design that is contrasting with their current urban lifestyle and wanting a house that embrace living with nature. The architecture started with building masses that maximise the use of the length and width of the site and distributing it vertically. The result is a 3 levels house with 3 distinct views. The house is half sunken with the house entrance at second level framing the horizon of surrounding area, sleeping and living area at first level enjoying the garden view, and finally, guest and entertainment area at third level enjoying the views of surrounding hills and valleys.

Charles Dewanto, Dian Sekar Sari, Vian Yonathan

VIlla Asti started as a renovation project from a derelict house that the client bought after moving from Japan. The existing house needs a major renovation after previous wet season causes major roof leaks and electrical short circuit on the house. After a series of discussion with the client, major renovation is decided on the addition of second floor that creates open plan living overlooking surrounding paddy fields and replacing all the roof structures with a new. Effort on the renovation is placing second floor structures onto the existing house and using the new roof design to wrap the old and new building into a whole.

Charles Dewanto, Nisa Dyah Ayu, Dwi Adintya

Waturenggong food court is a recycling project, turning an existing carpentry warehouse complex into a food court complex. The client belief that the surrounding area had evolved into a commercial zone and no longer viable to run his carpentry business. The design breaks away from the grid and modulation of existing warehouse structures and creating an organic flow of circulation from indoor to outdoor from eating area to event space across 2 levels. The organic flow is created with curved floor plate at the second floor and ground marking with different materials to regulate programs and circulations. We believe designs that eliminates corners are able to bring people together and creating a successful commercial space.

Charles Dewanto, Nisa Dyah Ayu, Komang Adi Putra

Sawangan Commercial Complex is a commercial project that introduced mix-use, rentable commercial space in Sawangan area. The client proposed this brief to fill the market gap for commercial destination in the area. The client is hopeful that this development will benefit his existing hotel next door and the next development adjacent to this commercial complex. The design started with gathering area / event space in the middle of the site to create a center for the clients' property lands. Next we created a circulation route that is easy to navigate throughout the site. Rental spaces are distributed with various sizes and features to suit future investors.

Charles Dewanto, Nisa Dyah Ayu

The proposal for Jimbaran Art Center balances the concept of traditional balinese spaces and requirements of art center with international standards. We believe there are 2 main requirements to create a contemporary art center in Bali. First, the complex is a place for expression, collaboration and interaction between visitors and creative communities. Secondly, this center should provide public spaces at different scales to accommodate future activities big or small.

ARCC - Charles Dewanto, Nisa Dyah Ayu, Dwi Adintya,

Anso Studio - Aswin Soengkono

Sawangan Day Club is a renovation project turning the client’s half finished house into a day club that will boast magnificent view of The Indian Ocean. Looking at the existing layout of the house we are turning the bedrooms into private dining spaces and the spacious living area into the bar and lounge.The proposed renovation is about creating contrast and pushing boundaries between indoor and outdoor spaces. The contrast starts with different themes for the interior spaces but using similar material palettes to keep the flow of spaces. The exterior is embracing the outdoor nature with new pavilion buildings and swimming pool are set on the edges of the cliff overlooking Indian Ocean.

Charles Dewanto, Nisa Dyah Ayu, Dwi Adintya

Teras Ayung House is a renovation and addition project located in a typical housing estate in Bali. The concept for this house is to create permeable spaces that rejuvenate our senses without compensating privacy and comfort in an urbanised area. The proposed renovation is a 2 storeys structure that infilled a small disused courtyard space in the middle of the house. The new addition created an open plan living room, a new master ensuite, and a study alcove. The new addition is tied together by a timber framed enclosure that contained a front yard space creating a buffer from the street to the new open-living room. This timber framing continues to the second floor, wrapping and forming a new master ensuite space that are lined with timber detailing from wall, ceiling, to built-in furnitures.

Charles Dewanto, Komang Adi Putra, Dian Sekar Sari

Citraland Surabaya House is a 3 storeys home for a young family in a housing estate in Surabaya. The challenge from the client is to come up with a dynamic house layout to suit the clients' active lifestyle. At the same time the client are concerned how to maintain their privacy at an exposed corner site. The architecture proposal started as perimeter facades encasing the house behind creating a privacy buffer against the corner site. This strategy allows us to design a fluid house layout, liberated from the typical layout, which is usually arranged as a front yard, a house, and a back yard. The perimeter facades are curated carefully to have openings that responds with its surrounding context and its interiors. This house balances a private home at corner site and yet maintaining a dynamic floor plan across 3 levels.

Charles Dewanto, Dian Sekar Sari, Nisa Dyah Ayu, Dwi Adintya

Greenwich House is designed to maximise a small plot of land of only 168m2 into a family home and an office for the client’s online business. To accommodate the two programs the house is designed to maximise floor ratio regulation of 200m2. As a result, the house is lacking of outdoor spaces and greeneries. To promote good air circulation and green spaces, we came up with a hanging garden design that wraps around the perimeter of second floor. The hanging garden are cantilevered and constructed out of stainless steel plates. These plates are perforated with different sizes of perforation. Small perforation are to allow natural lights and fresh air in. Big perforation to hold pot plants which replaces the green space that we lost. These hanging garden also creates a canopy at the carport area and increase privacy for the windows facing the street.

Charles Dewanto, Nisa Dyah Ayu, Dwi Adintya

Pecatu Surf Hotel is a budget accommodation that caters for surfers at Pecatu area. The cilent asked to create an affordable building that maximise a relatively small plot of 400m2 with facilities that support the surfers staying in this accommodation. Our proposal comes up to 22 rooms across 3 levels. The communal facilities are spread across 3 levels with main rooftop area to enjoy the surrounding view and dipping pool at its lobby area. We are maximising the circulation spaces to accommodate more communal facilities such as seating areas, a reading nook, a communal kitchen. The architecture are using the bamboo facade to create inexpensive and innovative breathable materials to promote good natural air circulation throughout the building.

Charles Dewanto, Nisa Dyah Ayu

Bandulan Warehouse Office is designed to accommodate growing staff at client's existing office building. The existing one storey office building is then demolish to make way for bigger, two storey office building. The addition of the second floor on the existing location creates vistas to the surrounding warehouse complex. The design correspond with the industrial theme of the surrounding warehouses. To get in line with client's new vision of efficient workspace and transparency, special attention is given with the detailing of its steel architecture by minimising connection joints and exposing its structure.

Charles Dewanto, Nisa Dyah Ayu, Dwi Adintya

ARCC Studio consist of the architect’s office and a small living quarter at the back. The building is exploring the idea of containment through the characters of its indoor and outdoor spaces. The architecture is an arrangement of 5 rooms and 5 courtyards enclosed within a perimeter wall. These rooms are arranged to slip between each other, not touching, but creating network of laneways and framing each courtyards. The design of indoor and outdoor spaces can be described as universal spaces that are ready to be occupied for any uses, combinations and or changes.

Charles Dewanto

Villa Canggu is designed to answer the contemporary needs for tourist accommodation in Bali. There is a need for an accommodation that provide creature comforts and at the same time embracing the tropical living in Bali. The house is mostly outdoor and opens up to its surrounding neighbourhood and nature. The layout of the villas are designed efficiently with interior spaces such as bedrooms are pushed to both edges of the site. This provides maximum outdoor spaces in the middle to accommodate swimming pool, living and dining rooms. The outdoor spaces are draped using architectural membrane, creating a minimal shelter that still allows its surrounding in.

Charles Dewanto, Nisa Dyah Ayu, Dwi Adintya, Komang Adi Putra, Febby Arsyisyakirin

Hungry Pandah is a small restaurant nestled in between 2 mature mango trees in Seminyak, Bali. To create a new identity within the neighbourhood, the design is about creating volume by infilling the space underneath the trees. As a result, a double height canopy is eracted to accommodate an outdoor kitchen and dining area. In order to harmonise with the surrounding trees, the facade need to replicate the dynamic movement of the trees. We came up with an idea for a facade using printed screens that are tied onto the main canopy’s structure. The printed screens are moving, swaying according to the wind just like the mango trees.

Charles Dewanto, Nisa Dyah Ayu

A fatal fire accident burnt down Pasar Badung buildings in February 2016 causing the relocation of thousands of vendors in 3 emergency locations. Immediate proposal to rebuild the new market buildings are needed to return this major economy hub back to normal. As one of the tourist destination in Bali, the new market also need to showcase a building that are contemporary but instil Balinese architecture and culture. One aspect that is able to enhance this market experience is to reclaim Tukad Badung (Badung River) as part of the market and part of the public. The new market shall emerge from the river as a series of exposed brick patterns and walls, displaying Balinese contemporary architecture started from the river to top level of the new market building.

ARCC - Charles Dewanto, Nisa Dyah Ayu, Dwi Adintya, Komang Adi Putra

Somia Design - Widi Adnyana

Anso Studio - Aswin Soengkono

101 House is a proposal for a multi-programs household in a limited plot of land of only 100m2. Within 100m2, domestic spaces are distributed to allow commercial and communal spaces into the house. Overall, there are 8 levels of floors that contains a living quarter for the owner, a room for rent, a retail space, and a small ‘warung’. We believe there are 101 ways that this house will adapt and change in the future. This proposal is just one of the way, here is a daily life at 101 House.

Charles Dewanto, Nisa Dyah Ayu, Dwi Adintya

Upcycling house is an emergency housing proposal for recent earthquake disasters that happened in Lombok. This proposal, tries to answer how disaster houses can become a permanent home for its user. The answer is yes if we create a scenario and guides for its users on how to develop their own house post disaster recovery. The proposal started by using containers to deliver materials and goods for each families in need. The containers itself becomes the starting point of the house for basic shelter, cooking and waste facilities. The later phase of the house is about modifying it to suit its users. The house may start with a vegetables patch, or small life stock cages. Later on, if more spaces are needed, Second floor can be added using precast system and recycled building materials that the government provided as part of disaster relief benefits. This proposal tried to give a holistic design that are able to answer the housing needs post disaster recovery period.

Charles Dewanto, Nisa Dyah Ayu, Dwi Adintya

Villa Batu Layar project is located in Lombok with a steep contour overlooking the ocean. The site has some infrastructure works done that this site are divided into 3 levels and connected by a ramp. The brief from the client was to create an efficient villa types using existing site conditions and providing villa facilities such as pool, restaurant, and the guest lounge area. The proposal consist of 3 types of villas ranges from 1,2 and 3 bedrooms, all with a dipping pool. The architecture is about creating spaces that are inspired by surrounding nature. Each villas are anchored with stone monolithic mass and tied the building together with leaning roof and pergola structure, a combination between man-made and nature.

Charles Dewanto, Nisa Dyah Ayu, Dwi Adintya