Bolon Lofts

A contemporary Bolon

A contemporary take on one of our favourite styles of Indonesian traditional architectural design — the Bolon Loft is a 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom island retreat set across three floors. The roofline, the timber posts, and the lofted sleeping platform are pulled directly from the Sumatran Bolon typology, refined for tropical resort living without erasing the lineage.

Spaces

Downstairs is open: kitchen, living, and outdoor pavilion blur into one continuous room that opens onto the garden. Upstairs is a single, generous suite with its own balcony and a roofline tall enough to feel ceremonial. Detailed for the kind of low-maintenance, durable use that island rental developments actually need.

The whitepaper

A whitepaper on the Bolon archetype — and on Indonesia’s broader history of prefabricated, modular, demountable architecture — sits in the journal.