PSMTI Riau

PSMTI was a Chinese society organization in Indonesia. This project was a Chinese Cultural Housing area that included Chinese surname house, safe house, and building for PSMTI in Pekanbaru. The overall concept of this building was emphasizing on the traditional Chinese architecture but with a modern twist. The main building was designed with a higher mass to show respect to the traditional melayu building with stage house. The ramp was designed to surround the PSMTI building as an analogy to a dragon curling the columns inside the building where all those columns served as a metaphor of the diversity in Chinese surnames, and the roof of the PSMTI building had taken the traditional Chinese roof with a high slanted ceilings and curvy top with gold colour as a symbol of prosperity.