A 1970s garment factory kept and rebuilt around two shaded courtyards.
Architecture, engineering, urbanism
Buildings that begin with what is already there.
Karsa works on adaptive reuse, civic, and workplace projects across Southeast Asia. We start with the structure and the ground, then decide what to keep.
Adaptive reuse study, Bandung. Concept image.Karsa / 01
Selected work
All workThree projects, three kinds of keeping.
A school organised around water, shade, and a public route along the river.
A shared workplace for three organisations, planned around a single internal street.
Practice
Read the site. Keep the frame. Build in layers.
Reuse is not a style. It is a way of working with what a place already carries: structure, material, shade, and habit. The new work should be legible without erasing the old.
01
Survey
Measure the structure, the ground, and the way people already use the site.
02
Keep
Decide what stays before drawing anything new. The frame, the shade, the route.
03
Cut
Remove only what blocks light, air, or movement. Every cut has a reason.
04
Build
Add new work in a material palette that belongs to the place.
Bandung
Studio and model workshop
Jakarta
Project office
Singapore
Urban strategy