Berundak House

Residential2026

A hillside house that steps with its slope instead of fighting it, tracing a ramp and a stepped, reflecting pool from street to living room.

Berundak House sits on a generous hillside lot — the challenge was never space, it was slope. Rather than levelling the ground, the house steps with it: a ramp carries the plan down through a planted, stepped terrace to a slim, still pool at path level, the project's main gesture rather than an afterthought.

Above, a ribbed, brick-toned volume cantilevers past a dark stone plinth, sheltered by a roof deep enough to shade the ground floor's glazing and the carport beneath it; a timber-slat soffit runs from that overhang straight into the carport ceiling, so shelter and arrival read as one material decision.

Timber decking runs from the living room's glass wall past a concrete stepping stone toward the lawn, with a car visible in the carport beyond.

Dusk approach up the sloped driveway toward the house, its brick-tile upper volume cantilevering over a black car parked beneath the carport.

An uplit tree stands beside the timber deck at dusk, the glowing kitchen and living room visible through open glazing.

Head-on view of the carport, its slatted timber walls framing a black car beneath the brick-tile volume above.

A side garden runs the length of the glass-walled living room, closed by a concrete bench and a tall boundary wall.

Terraced concrete platforms step down the slope beside the house, alternating grass and a shallow reflecting pool beneath the roof overhang.

Bamboo screens the ground floor's dark timber cladding beneath the brick-tile upper level.

The open living and dining area's slatted timber ceiling runs past concrete columns toward the kitchen, with built-in oak cubbies along one wall.

Cane-backed dining chairs surround a long oak table beneath a slatted timber ceiling, with the stainless refrigerator and open shelving behind.

A concrete stair rises beside timber-slat cladding from the living room, past the kitchen's stainless appliances toward the upper floor.

Oak cabinetry lines the kitchen, a linear pendant light hanging above the island beside the built-in refrigerator.

A narrow reflecting pool runs alongside the timber-clad wing, its deck sheltered by a deep slatted overhang.

The lap pool's tiled edge meets a timber deck beneath the brick-tile volume, framed by a boundary wall on one side.

The entry is staged, not smoothed over: a gate leads onto the ramp, down past the stepped terrace and its pool before the plan turns and rises into an open living-dining-kitchen, lit under a timber-slat ceiling and held by round, unadorned columns. The pool itself is tiled flush to its terrace, with no raised coping to interrupt the surface.

Upstairs, three bedrooms sit above the public floor. The primary suite opens onto its own terrace, where two small reflecting pools echo the ground floor's water in miniature — proof that following a slope, rather than fighting it, can become a house's most memorable move.

A bedroom corner where a woven roller shade filters daylight beside a built-in desk and full-height timber wardrobe.

A timber-lined breezeway opens onto the brick-tile courtyard wall, a floor lamp glimpsed through the opening below.

A door left ajar reveals a dim timber-paneled room, its window framing the sunlit brick-tile wall and greenery outside.

Looking out from the corridor, the brick-tile courtyard wall catches full sun beside a wood-slat parapet.

Looking down a threshold between timber-clad walls, sunlight rakes across the brick-tile courtyard wall beyond an open door.

A window seat doubles as a desk, its built-in shelving and a circular mirrored object catching the light beside a woven shade.

Close on the built-in desk, a circular mirrored decor object sits in the sunlight cast through the woven blind.

Through an open door, a bedroom's low bed and window bench catch afternoon light behind a woven shade.

A low oak console runs beneath the bedroom's angled window, paired with wall-mounted cabinets above the bed.

A tall oval mirror hangs above a built-in dressing table, flanked by open shelving and a wardrobe.

At dusk, a stepped lawn edged with underlit grass leads along the deck toward a lit study, bamboo rising against the darkening sky.

Dusk exterior of the two-story house, its kitchen and dining area glowing behind full-height glass beside a parked car.

Concrete steps descend past a timber-clad wall toward an illuminated pool at dusk, the living room glowing through glass above.

Location: Dago, Bandung, West Java
Year: 2026
Status: Concept
Services: Architecture Design, Interior Design

Daytime street view of the house's layered brick-tile massing, framed by an overhanging tree and a black car parked in the driveway.