Limas Atas

DSC_0625The Limas Atas is our most recently completed building, and from our slightly biased point of view, our best architectural accomplishment to date.  It takes the same base structure of the Limas Gede, (11 x 5.5 meter rectangle, with 8 recycled teak pillars), but is instead split in two, with a shared 2.5 meter breezeway for ventilation, privacy, and/or nongkrong*.  Both bedrooms feature comfortable,  recycled teak, kingsized beds, two indoor/outdoor bathrooms making both rooms ensuite, allowing for friends / family to rent both sides of the house, or for it to be happily cohabited by strangers / new friends.

It features views of the Cibuntu river gorge, from within the rooms, and from its rather throne style commodes, and is a house with few corners. One bathroom features a bathtub, the other a rain shower, both with on demand gas hot water heaters.

*nongkrong-v- to hang out, discuss things, a most popular Indonesian pastime, here supported architecturally by a covered set of sofa/stairs, as well as a set of large stones uncovered in the building process, with which we formed a campfire circle in the back of the house (please do ask for our assistance in lighting a campfire).

The staggered staircase features enough hang out space for a mini concert, and the extraordinarily tall gebyok walls allow for an abundance of natural light and canyon views.

The staggered staircase features enough hang out space for a mini concert, and the extraordinarily tall gebyok walls allow for an abundance of natural light and canyon views.

Limas Atas 1

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Your king sized bed frame contains angular reuse of old warung doors, this is your view, and place of rest on the farm.

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Limas Atas 2room 2

Limas Atas 2

Limas Atas 2, it’s writing desk, natural light, and other accoutrements, here and below.

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