JUNGLE VILLA · UBUD · 2024
Villa Hutan
A four-bedroom private home above the Petanu river — built from bamboo, teak and volcanic stone, open to the canopy on every floor.
A four-bedroom private home above the Petanu river — built from bamboo, teak and volcanic stone, open to the canopy on every floor.
Villa Hutan sits on a steep slope above the Petanu river, twenty minutes north of central Ubud. The brief came from a couple who had spent two decades in cities and wanted the opposite: a home where the loudest sound is water and the most striking material is the one growing outside the window.
The structure is a hybrid — engineered bamboo frames for the roof pavilions and main living spaces, reinforced concrete piers for stability on the slope, and walls of hand-finished volcanic stone and teak. Every bedroom opens to a private terrace facing the gorge, and the bathrooms are partially open-air, screened by tropical planting.
It is not a quiet villa. It is a villa that lets the jungle in — and the jungle, it turns out, is anything but quiet.
The villa footprint was set after the trees were surveyed, not before. Six mature banyans and a stand of bamboo dictated where pavilions could land — and they all stayed.
The roof spans and main living pavilion use treated, laminated bamboo — structural, certified, and built to last forty years in tropical humidity. Bamboo isn't a finish here; it's the building.
Each en-suite has a partial open-air section — rain shower under the sky, basin facing planted greenery. The micro-climate of the gorge does the rest.
We didn't move to Bali. We moved into the jungle, and Architerra built the room.
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