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Cambio lofts consist of 2 nos of 35 storey residential towers with a commercial podium and lush roof top environmental decks with common facilities on the podium roof tops. Located in Alam Sutera, Jakarta, Indonesia, the development with 1400 unique apartment units is designed to be adaptive giving the occupants the option to configure their apartments for their particular needs.
A configuration of the structure as a steel and concreate matrix that supports a vertical community of private houses, clustered into distinct village-like communities with vertical communal sky gardens and amenities distributed distributed evenly through the 35 floors offering residents a unique opportunity to achieve an individual statement of identity and distinct communities in a high rise. .
It offers a critique of the twentieth Century tradition of homogenised and faceless multi-storey buildings that denies urban dwellers of their presence in the cityscape.