Studio / Ubud, Bali / Indonesia
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






What we do
Architecture
From site and program analysis through concept, drawings, and construction documentation. Passive-design strategy and consultant coordination are part of the work, not an add-on at the end.
Interiors
Layouts, built-ins, lighting, and finish schedules developed alongside the architecture, so the inside of a building isn’t treated as a separate project.
Styling & Furnishing
Furniture, loose pieces, textiles, and the final layer of a room, specified and sourced so a finished house feels lived in rather than staged.
Masterplanning
Access, zoning, massing, and the relationship between buildings and land, for sites where the questions come before the building does.
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.

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.