Sajajar Space
In Batujajar, an existing pool becomes sunken seating around a waterfall, and stone drawn from the site's own name runs throughout.
Behind the site sat a swimming pool, the dominant feature of the plot and, on paper, the obvious thing to remove. Sajajar Space keeps it instead, and turns it into the heart of the project: the pool becomes sunken seating stepped down around a waterfall, so what was once a private amenity now gathers a crowd rather than excluding one.
The building takes its material logic from the ground it stands on. In Batujajar, where the place name itself translates to "stone rows," stone becomes the project's one governing material — carried from the facade through the palette to a shaped stone form assembled from rock already on site, arranged rather than replaced. The name of the place and the material of the building are the same idea, said twice.
What looks, at first glance, like a loosely arranged plan is actually held together by an underlying grid, governing where each function sits without ever showing itself as rigid geometry from the ground. The randomness is a surface effect; the order beneath it is deliberate.
Arrival is not immediate. Visitors move through a corridor built specifically to slow the approach, one that combines water, stone, and open ground in sequence, with daylight breaking through the passage rather than lighting it evenly — a deceleration before the space opens out, so the sunken seating and its waterfall arrive as a destination rather than a first impression.
The program is built for gathering at scale. Conceived as an outdoor restaurant space that also rents out for events, the layout includes a stage that doubles as a wedding dais, a defined path for arrivals, and tiered seating that lets both restaurant guests and event visitors take in the outdoor space from a fixed vantage point. Every element does double duty — a stage for ceremony, a rock formation as both structure and object, a former pool as both water feature and gathering ground.
