Rising sun

Designed to embrace the tropics, this architect’s home in Ubud, Bali reinterprets traditional ‘long houses’ as it emerges from the jungle.

ALEESHA CALLAHAN

LOCATION UBUD, BALI, INDONESIA You’d be forgiven for thinking that Rumah Fajar is set somewhere incredibly remote given the overflowing tropical landscape that surrounds it. But the architect, who also happens to be the owner, shares that his home is in fact just a few minutes from Ubud’s town centre. The lush foliage was planted by Maximilian Jencquel, the founder of Balinese-based Studio Jencquel. “We wanted to create that feeling of discovering a house within the vegetation. It’s an idea that is a very fundamental aspect of our philosophy; this idea of wanting to blend into nature or into the context. If we were to do something in the city, we would try to find a way to blend in”. Jencquel has designed and built several homes for himself and…

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