Raaga House is a house owned by the architect and his family, situated at the end of a residential area with the trapezodial land shape. The elevation of the site is lower than the neighboring land and becomes an idea for the unconventional design approach. The existing Flamboyant tree in front of the site is kept to shade the house throughout the day.

The house is designed with a modern house concept with concrete exposed as the sole building material. The layout of the space is divided into two parts: one part of the space that functions as a house, and the other part is a sloping garden as a connecting space for all. The continues garden acts as a living space that provides air circulation throughout the house with good ventilation.

The ground floor consists of a carport, storage, studio, and master bedroom at the back of the house. The placement of the master bedroom on the ground floor gives the impression of a more private space with the main orientation facing the inner court garden to feel natural light entering through the circular void which gives the impression of a peaceful space.

Using ramp as the main entrance to the living room on the second floor that is blended with the landscape, which enriches the sequence of spatial experiences  with natural ambience as they move to the house. At the end of the ramp, we will see a circular void that opens to the lower garden and the living and dining room area. All the opening in the living room can be fully opened by sliding and hiding windows to create a continuous space between the inside and the outside. The living area is linked to a terrace on both sides as an extended space for multifunction family events.

On the third floor, it consists of two kids bedrooms, a bathroom, and a roof garden. The bed frame in the children’s room uses a cantilevered concrete slab with a large opening towards the side garden. On this floor, we will find many geometric-shaped skylights as a main concept throughout the house. The building mass on this floor was pulled back to give a human-scale impression to the facade of the house.

The main material used in this house is exposed concrete with wooden plank formwork. This material becomes a strong design character for this house. For other materials, we are using concrete slab, terrazzo, teak wood, grating, galvanized plate, and aluminum window frame. This material selection creates monotonous neutral color harmony as a blank canvas that can be easily combined with other colors.

This house tries to develop a design approach through simple mass composition designs with various space scales in order to create memorable spatial experiences.