Architecture & interiors · Plate I
We draw with the light we’re given.
Ruang Atelier is a small studio. Every project starts as a white model on an oak board, studied from first light to last before a single wall is drawn.
The same model, photographed through one day: low morning sun from the east, short shadows at noon, long amber light in the evening, and the glass pavilion lit like a lantern at dusk.
Plate II · Shadow study
One day on the board.
Scroll to move the sun. We keep a building only if every room gets its hour.
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07:05 · Reading Tower
First light runs up the ribs of the tower. The reading rooms face east, so the day starts on the desks.
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10:40 · Market Podium
The sun clears the tower and lands on the timber roof. The market hall below stays cool behind its fins.
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14:10 · The long lawn
Short shadows. The planted strip and the pool get their sun at lunch, when people are actually outside.
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18:40 · Garden Pavilion
Last sun goes amber, the model goes blue, and the glass pavilion lights up. We place it where the evening ends.
Plate III · Index of works
Five buildings, one board.
Everything we have built started on the same oak board. Open a line to read the brief and the hour that decided it.
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A tower of reading rooms, each one a single floor wide, so every desk has a window. The ribs on the south face shade the afternoon and leave the morning in.
- Decided at
- 07:05, east light
- Structure
- Concrete frame, plaster ribs
- Model
- Plaster, 1:200
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A long hall under a timber roof terrace. Bronze fins on the west keep the stalls cool, and the terrace takes the sun from mid-morning until the market closes.
- Decided at
- 10:40, high sun
- Structure
- Timber deck on steel
- Model
- Plaster, oak veneer
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A single glass room at the end of the lawn, open until late. It sits where the last sun leaves the site, so at dusk it becomes the light.
- Decided at
- 18:40, last sun
- Structure
- Slender steel, low-iron glass
- Model
- Acrylic, 1:100
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Three stepped floors on a slope that gets almost no winter sun. We lifted the living room to the top terrace and dropped the bedrooms into the cool.
- Decided at
- 12:00, winter noon
- Structure
- Rammed earth, timber
- Model
- Plaster and cork
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The plinths we use to stage models became furniture. Cast in the same plaster, sealed, and heavier than they look. See Plate IV.
- Decided at
- Under the blinds
- Material
- Sealed plaster, oak
- Made
- In the studio
Plate IV · Objects
The plinths came home.
We cast them to stage models. People kept asking to take them. Now we make a few each season, by hand, in the studio.
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Disc table
Ø 620 · H 180 mm · warm plaster
$640
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Block stool
420 × 420 × 450 mm · white plaster
$520
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Step stand
Ø 480 · three tiers · white plaster
$380
Sample prices. Reserving keeps a piece for 7 days; nothing is charged.
Plate V · Commission a study
Send us your site. We’ll send you its day.
Tell us where it faces and what it should hold. We build a white model, study it through one day and send you the plates. We take on a few new studies each season and reply to every note within a week.
Study opened
Study RA-26-041
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- Site
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- We read it on the next clear day and send the plates within a week.