Seascapes duplex
Cajal Bodies designed a duplex expansion for Seascapes Bira across twenty-three sheets: a ground-floor twin room, a studio with a loft above it, and a covered roof terrace.
Seascapes Bira has three rooms. The duplex adds a stack to them: a twin room at ground level, a four-metre studio with a loft over it, and a covered roof terrace with a tub. A mirrored second stack is drawn and deliberately deferred, so the first one can be built and lived in before the second is committed to.
The drawings run to twenty-three sheets and ship in three forms, because three different people have to read them and they do not read the same way. The builders get a pack in Bahasa Indonesia written in the language of the trade. Investors get packs in English and French. The drawings underneath are identical in all three; only the reader changes.
The set is costed in stages, and the value-engineering choices are kept as choices rather than folded in quietly, so that cutting scope stays a decision somebody makes on purpose instead of something that happens on site.
This one is close to home. Seascapes Bira and Cajal Bodies have the same owner, so the drawings, the costing and the decision to build are all in the same hands.
What we made
- A twenty-three sheet design set
- A builder's pack in Bahasa Indonesia
- Investor packs in English and French
- A staged costing with value-engineering kept as choices
Built with
- Architectural drawing set
- Print-ready PDF
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Questions people ask
What is the Seascapes duplex?
An expansion to Seascapes Bira in Tanjung Bira, South Sulawesi: a ground-floor twin room, a studio with a loft, and a covered roof terrace, drawn across twenty-three sheets.
Who designed the Seascapes duplex?
Cajal Bodies. Seascapes Bira has the same owner, so it is an internal project rather than client work.
Build it, then run it
Cajal Bodies works four ways: run it, build it, draw it or make it, and most published work started with something built. If nothing is running yet, that starts with Build it; once it is, the monthly work keeps it watched.