Studio / Ubud, Bali / Indonesia

An architecture studio in Ubud, Bali, designing for the tropics.

An architecture studio in Ubud, Bali, designing for the tropics.

An architecture studio in Ubud, Bali, designing for the tropics.

We work across architecture, interiors, styling, and masterplanning, and we design for heat, rain, and daylight before anything else — how air moves through a room, how far a roof must reach to hold off the afternoon sun, how a site drains in the wet season. We call the approach Adaptive Archipelago Architecture: climate, landscape, and Indonesian culture treated as the brief itself, not decoration applied at the end. Every project begins with the land and the way a client actually lives, then works outward through passive cooling, locally sourced materials, and the artisans we build with.

We work across architecture, interiors, styling, and masterplanning, and we design for heat, rain, and daylight before anything else — how air moves through a room, how far a roof must reach to hold off the afternoon sun, how a site drains in the wet season. We call the approach Adaptive Archipelago Architecture: climate, landscape, and Indonesian culture treated as the brief itself, not decoration applied at the end. Every project begins with the land and the way a client actually lives, then works outward through passive cooling, locally sourced materials, and the artisans we build with.

We work across architecture, interiors, styling, and masterplanning, and we design for heat, rain, and daylight before anything else — how air moves through a room, how far a roof must reach to hold off the afternoon sun, how a site drains in the wet season. We call the approach Adaptive Archipelago Architecture: climate, landscape, and Indonesian culture treated as the brief itself, not decoration applied at the end. Every project begins with the land and the way a client actually lives, then works outward through passive cooling, locally sourced materials, and the artisans we build with.

Adaptive Archipelago Architecture

Climate Adaptation

Buildings that breathe with the tropics through cross-ventilation, deep eaves, and porous façades—regulating heat and humidity naturally.

Material Honesty

Locally sourced and climate-appropriate materials are crafted through both traditional techniques and contemporary fabrication.

Contemporary Vernacular

Traditional Indonesian forms are reinterpreted through asymmetry, material integrity, and a direct relationship with landscape.

Material Research

Materials tell the story. We research locally sourced, climate-appropriate materials that age beautifully in tropical conditions while honoring Indonesian craft traditions.

Materials tell the story. We research locally sourced, climate-appropriate materials that age beautifully in tropical conditions while honoring Indonesian craft traditions.

Engineered bamboo material sample
Reclaimed teak material sample
Locally sourced volcanic stone material sample
Rammed earth material surface
Raw concrete material surface
Charred wood material surface

What we do

How we work

A boutique studio means you work directly with the people designing your building. This is the shape of it.

01 Enquiry and brief

We start with your vision, the site and its size, the area you intend to build, the spaces you need, and any references, schedule, or budget you already have.

02 Site and concept

Before form, we read the site: how it drains, where the wind comes from, where shade falls through the day, and how you actually want to live in it. Concept work follows — diagrams, plans, sections, massing, and material direction.

03 Documentation

Construction drawings and details, roof and drainage, openings, passive-design strategy, and structural and MEP coordination, packaged for tender and construction.

04 Construction

Site visits, coordination, and construction review, at a frequency agreed in writing before work starts. Procurement and furniture sourcing can be included when separately contracted.

Talisa Dwiyani, founder of Pulau Studio, holding natural material samples

Founded by Talisa Dwiyani

Talisa Dwiyani leads Pulau Studio with a sensitivity shaped by movement between cultures, climates, and ways of living.

Her education and practice in Europe have strengthened an approach that values quiet details, thoughtful craftsmanship, material restraint, and the intimate relationship between people and place. Each project begins by listening — to the land, to the client, and to the rhythms of everyday life — before taking form as a shelter that feels personal, grounded, and connected to its surroundings.

Background

  • Founder and Principal Architect, Pulau Studio

  • Bachelor of Architecture, Universitas Indonesia

  • Creative Sustainability, Aalto University, Finland

  • Architecture practice with Andramatin and ADA Studio Bali

  • Material research with Studio Tjeerd Veenhoven

  • Founder, Sabin Collective — material research across the Indonesian archipelago

Start a conversation

If you’re planning a home, a small hospitality project, or a masterplan in Bali or elsewhere in the archipelago, tell us about the site and how you want to live in it. We’ll come back with an honest view of scope, timeline, and whether we’re the right studio for it.