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OMA's first hotel in Bali, Potato Head Studios, is an influencer's dream

2020-03-07T12:00:00-05:00

To the delight of Instagram influencers everywhere, international architecture practice OMA has recently completed its first hotel in Bali, Indonesia, a 168-room facility known as Potato Head Studios. Pulling from the region's tropical landscape and with the help of marquee furniture designers like Max Lamb and Faye Toogood, OMA was commissioned by luxury hotel brand Potato Head to create a tropical "resort for open engagement rather than private consumption," according to the firm's project description.

Aiming to provide an "inclusive" hotel environment that enables guests to "reconnect with the local community," the firm's new Bali hotel is located along the unoccupied beaches of Seminyak, and offers up a collection of rooms outfitted in a medley of sustainably sourced furnishings and materials.

Image © Kevin Mak, courtesy of OMA.

An artfully designed resort offers public spaces wrapped in luxurious finishes, l...

This Bali-based Treetop hotel gives visitors an "off-the-ground" experience

2020-02-18T12:13:00-05:00

The Alexis Dornier-designed Bali-based Treetop Boutique Hotel is located in a suburb of Ubud on the Indonesian island of Bali. Alexis Dornier is a local architecture studio and used this project as a means to experiment with ways to lift structures off of the ground in an effort to have a less impactful footprint on the environment in addition to lower costs and faster construction.

"Many developments here on the island use high quantities of concrete. We wanted to challenge that and create light architecture while suggesting a surreal mix of industrial impermanent structures embedded into a tropical forest," the architects said in a statement.

Each of the structures within this village framework has a different appearance and organizational structure. Some are composed of a louvered materiality, multi-leveled and circulated by a singular spiral stair case, while others, holding the same stair motif, contain only a single level that sits at the peak of the architecture.

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Bali’s fascinating bamboo architecture

2015-03-23T12:47:00-04:00

“There was a time when you could not be poor enough, or rural enough, to want to live in a bamboo house,” says Ibuku founder Elora Hardy. A former print designer for Donna Karan, Hardy now leads an Indonesian firm that creates innovative, luxurious structures out of cheap, sustainable, plentiful bamboo. In a talk at the TED conference last week, Hardy wowed the audience with spectacular images that defy traditional notions of house shapes and construction.

Learn more about Ibuku on the firm's Archinect profile.