Form Thinks First: how a project moves with FOR_S.
OverviewThree scales designed as one system, from concept to handover.
Overview
Architecture, interior & landscape studio in Bandung
For owners and developers across Indonesia. We listen to your habits, plans, references and budget first, then design the architecture, interior and landscape around them.
Homes, workplaces, hospitality and districts, each told from what we heard to the form that came out of it.
Form is an answer. Before we draw, we understand your story and the logic of the space: function, relation, circulation, light and air.
A story session with the owner. The references you bring, Pinterest included, are read together as a first language.
The Spatial Brief: needs, priorities and limits written up for you to check and agree before design starts.
Site analysis, zoning, circulation and climate studies, then massing and material.
Coordinated construction drawings, regular support and handover with as-built records.
About four months for a full design scope. Every phase, decision and document is kept in your project portal.
These timings reflect the average of the projects we have designed. The phases and their length for your project are set together in the proposal, according to its scale and complexity, and may shift with site conditions, permits and decisions along the way.
One story · WCB Office, Bandung · Office & laboratory · 1,533 m²
Architecture, interior and landscape are designed together, so the experience holds from the street to the room.
Buildings and facades shaped by circulation and zoning.
Buildings, facades, massing, construction drawings
Layout, custom furniture and light that belong to the architecture.
Layouts, custom furniture, lighting, finishes
Outdoor space and transitions that move people through the site.
Outdoor space, planting, water, transitions
Five phases, from concept to handover (BAST), with one team accountable throughout.
Primary or secondary architect alongside partner studios, with clearly divided scope and shared files.
Reviews and spatial advice for a specific decision: a site, a layout or a renovation.
For owners and developers who see space as a long-term investment, and for studios that need a design partner.
Offices, homes, cafés and commercial spaces that carry your vision.
Work for ownersArsaterra · Fukaki House · WCB Office · Kafekota
Start a ProjectMany buildings, one consistent form language across the site.
At district scaleEnchanting Valley, 18 ha · Bajo Island, 6 ha · SGS Makassar, 15,135 m²
Solutions for developersPrimary or secondary architect for large and multi-city projects.
Designed together12 projects with Studio Asa and HUBU
Collaborate with FOR_SFOR_S, Form and Space Studio, was founded in Bandung in 2022. We help owners and developers understand, plan and direct spatial decisions, turning needs, goals and potential into a clear, accountable direction.
Larger and multi-city projects are designed with partner studios, each named with the work we did together.
Leads spatial direction and the studio's working method.
Drives delivery, documentation and project coordination.
Partner studios · Studio Asa · HUBU
What owners usually ask before the first conversation.
Per phase and in proportion to the scope and value of the work, following IAI guidance. You receive a written proposal after the story session and the Spatial Brief, before anything is signed. We do not publish fixed prices because no two projects are alike.
A conversation of about 45 minutes, at the studio or online, where we listen to how you live or work, what you hope for and what worries you. It is the start of your Spatial Brief.
Yes, please. References are a first language. We read them together to understand what you like and why, then translate that into spatial decisions.
Yes. Our work spans Jakarta, Bogor, Tangerang, Surabaya, Makassar, Labuan Bajo and more. Site visits outside Bandung are planned in the proposal.
About four months for a full design scope, from concept to construction drawings, with interior design running in parallel. The schedule for your project is set in the proposal.
Share a short project outline. We reply within one working day to set up a story session.
Four short steps, about five minutes. References and Pinterest links are welcome.
About 45 minutes, at the studio or online. We listen first.
Your needs written up for you to check, then a design-fee proposal per phase, in line with IAI guidance.
Monday to Friday, 09:00–17:00 WIBformandspace.studio@gmail.comOpen in Google Maps
