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Expandable House, Batam, Riau Islands

4 June 2022

Design: ETH Zurich / Stephen Cairns with Miya Irawati, Azwan Aziz, Dioguna Putra and Sumiadi Rahman

Location: Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia

West elevation of fully expanded house showing the perforated aerated cement block on the lower floors:
Expandable House Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia

Photos: Mario Wibowo

Expandable House, Batam Riau Islands, Indonesia

Expandable House, Batam Riau Islands

The expandable house combines a conventional steel-reinforced concrete frame with an aerated concrete block cladding and an innovative composite bamboo cladding:
Expandable House Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia

Tailored to and learning from the rapidly expanding peri-urban fringes of Asian cities like Batam – the world’s fastest-growing in 2015 – this new sustainable dwelling type is designed to be flexibly configured around its residents’ often precarious resources over time.

Locally made retractable bamboo screens are used for rain screens, shading and privacy:
Expandable House Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia

Its steel-reinforced concrete frame has aerated concrete block cladding at ground and composite bamboo cladding or retractable bamboo screens above.

Hydroponic cultivation of leafy greens in the companion vertical kitchen garden (or kebun susun):
Expandable House Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia

It is based around the following five principles:

(1) Sandwich section: the roof can be hoisted to add levels – the foundations can support up to three floors.

(2) Domestic density: the house encourages densification at domestic and neighbourhood scales.

(3) Decentralised systems: rainwater harvesting, solar panels, septic tanks and passive cooling principles are integrated.

(4) Productive landscapes: a vertical kitchen garden and bamboo nursery are included.

(5) Seed package: the technology, resource strategies and design guidelines can be developed in different ways depending on local social, cultural and environmental conditions.

Interior detail showing the perforated aerated cement block and composite bamboo panels:
Expandable House Batam, Riau Islands

The project supplements the dynamic logics of auto-construction endemic to rapid urbanisation in peri-urban regions:
Expandable House Batam, Riau Islands

Expandable House, Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia – Building Information

Award Cycle: 2020-2022 Cycle
Status: Shortlisted
Location: Batam Riau Islands, Indonesia

All technologies employed in expandable house were sourced locally:
Expandable House Batam, Riau Islands

Client: Batam Municipal Planning Authority and community leaders of Kampung Batu Besar neighbourhood
Architect: ETH Zurich / Stephen Cairns with Miya Irawati, Azwan Aziz, Dioguna Putra and Sumiadi Rahman
Completed: 2019
Country of origin: Indonesia

Detail view of the kitchen garden:
Expandable House Batam, Riau Islands

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Expandable House, Batam, Riau Islands images / information received 020622 from the Aga Khan Award for Architecture – AKAA

Expandable House, Batam, Riau Islands, – on the Aga Khan Award for Architecture website

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