Bumi Asah
Bumi Asah is an assemblage of four pavilions, forming a human resource training and development center. It is used for training of staff and to provide a seminar venue for corporate organizations. In providing such a backdrop, it also makes an explicit connection with nature, evoking an emotive relationship with the landscape, as well as reinforces the notion of teamwork found in both traditional Indonesian societies as well as contemporary Eurocentric management techniques. Given such a dual role, its architecture revolves around the simultaneous acknoledment of the past and present through an abstract statement.

It is an approach, which does not accept that there is a fixed and immutable relation between forms and meanings. It tries to understand the traditional typology and attempts to modify the representational system it inherited.

The complex’s name is a combination of two Indonesian terms – Bumi, which means “the earth” and Asah, which means “the cultivation of common goals.” The name thus symbolizes the idea of teamwork as the foundation for quality. Throughout, the spaces are infused with traditional artefacts associated with the notion of teamwork.

Composionally, four pavilions are organized in an open configuration that emphasizes an overlapping of views. They are linked by two simple, open-sided corridors. Open transitions between the various pavelions abet interaction. These  four pavilions, the Teamwork Pavilion, Interaction Pavilion, Synergy Pavilion and The Guest Pavilion, though different in fuction and design, are related to each other in a continuous circle of activities.