Omah Amoh - The Obsolete House
back to basic of architectural sense
Architect :
Gayuh Budi Utomo
Project :
Omah Amoh
Shortlisted for :
Housing Project
Located in :
Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia
In Javanese, amoh means obsolete, or broken. So, Omah Amoh
means an outdated or damaged house. This is not the actual condition of the
house but a parody of architecture to bring us back to basics. This is not only
a basic physical architecture but more as an important sense in it. From there,
new possibilities that had never been thought of before were created.
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Site Plan |
This house comes from scrap materials, architect not only
practice in designing, but also in design and build. He has scrap building
materials (which were not used in the project) that he collected in the
warehouse. From these materials, they become "creations" to "created"
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Konsep Design and Ergonomi design |
Omah Amoh. As if to reverse the form follows function of
dogma into a function follows form. The
materials turn out to be a surprise: unplanned but it had tremendous impact.
The Javanese base and island houses are communal houses, the
rooms are known as public rooms, a gathering place for many people. Built to be
more communal than individualistic. Almost all rooms inside can be used as a
place to have conversations, discussions, meetings, work on something, craft,
or just drink coffee together.
Here, the
architect is experimenting with old doors. The door was stripped into a basic
character as a "board", so it could be recreated to be anything. This
can remain as a door, or be recreated as a table, window and many others. Its
conventional function as a door is broken and has a new function that can be
said to be a little "subversive".
Besides that, he also thought about the sense of space
basically. This is quite experimental. It starts from a conventional room that
has to provide enough space for people to move around, so there is a minimalist
area that matches the minimum movement standards of people. At the end of his
reflection, he found space without spaces, when the front window on the upper
floor could be turned into a seat. Interesting space experiments in the midst
of limited space in our urban homes today.
The Obsolete
House or Omah
Amoh in Javanese language, is a conventional “unplanned, but can alter our
architectural sense-and-thought" house. By thinking and feeling essentially
and out of the box, ultimately he discovers the creativity strength of the
materials, from local wisdom and the spaces that are created inside.