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Architectural designs for tropical living
Architectural designs for tropical living
Charlotte Chambers™
Charlotte Chambers™
We create architectural blueprints informed by innovative research and real built work. Our design packages are suitable for both professional design teams and independent builders across tropical regions. Our designs have been built, refined and lived in, providing a proven foundation for those beginning their own design and build journey.
Rooted in Southeast Asian building traditions, our architecture is shaped by hands on experience in Borneo and Bali, then adapted for projects throughout the wider tropics. Each design responds to climate, materials and place, balancing efficiency and modular construction with beauty and practicality.
Through clear guidance and buildable solutions, we aim to set a new standard for regenerative architecture, demonstrating that thoughtfully designed timber and bamboo homes can be affordable, attainable and deeply connected to their heritage and environment.
We practice what we preach. Designed, built, loved and lived in.
We practice what we preach. Designed, built, loved and lived in.
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Rooted in Tradition Designed for Today
Rooted in Tradition Designed for Today
Experience homes that honor timeless architectural wisdom while embracing modern BIM and AI design technology and contemporary living styles. Our designs create elegant, climate responsive spaces with stilt foundations, wide overhangs and natural cooling, blending comfort, beauty and sustainability.
Strength and Adaptability Built In
Strength and Adaptability Built In
At the heart of every home is a careful balance of stability and adaptability. The blueprints are based on modular house systems with a structural frame and non structural infill walls, allowing the layout, wall materials to be tailored to your way of living. Solid cement cores anchor areas such as kitchens and bathrooms, providing a reliable backbone, while a renewable timber and bamboo post and beam frames wraps around the cores. The flexible infill walls means the plans accommodates a variety of layouts and finishes, giving each home personality while keeping construction straightforward.
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Demountable and Easy to Assemble
Demountable and Easy to Assemble
Modular components bolt together easily, making homes simple to build, relocate, or disassemble and reuse. By combining traditional knowledge, modern methods and regulatory compliance, our homes offer thoughtful sustainable ways of living. Every design is more than a building. It’s a way to live in harmony with local culture, climate and the land in Bali and beyond.
In Harmony with Bali’s Regulations
In Harmony with Bali’s Regulations
Our homes are designed for the tropical environment and comply with Bali’s building regulations. Building height is limited to that of a palm tree, typically around 3 storeys and roofs are required to be pitched. These guidelines preserve the island’s iconic skyline, while protecting homes from intense sun and tropical rain, grounded in the practical wisdom of traditional Balinese architecture.
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Homes
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Timber frame kit homes
Timber frame kit homes
Architectural blueprints for tropical living
Architectural blueprints for tropical living
Meno Mansion
Ulu Farmhouse
Michi Villa
Gili House
Beach Hut
Homes Collection
Homes Collection
Our homes are inspired by traditional village architecture and shaped through years of living and building in the rainforests of Borneo.
Designed for natural ventilation, outdoor living and practical construction, each blueprint draws from traditional wisdom while offering the comfort and functionality needed for contemporary life. The collection includes homes and pavilions suited to tropical landscapes, creating buildings that feel grounded in their environment.
Whether you are building a homestead, guest lodge, retreat centre or family home, these designs offer a flexible foundation that can be adapted to your site, budget and way of living.
Meno Mansion
Meno Mansion
Architectural Design Package
270 m² | 4 Bedrooms | 2 Floors
A contemporary tropical residence designed around a central service core and a modular structural system.
The ground floor is open and social, with generous kitchen and living spaces organised around a clear circulation spine. Upstairs provides private bedrooms, a secondary living area and elevated terraces that bring light, air and landscape into everyday life.
Drawing inspiration from Balinese and Japanese architecture, the design balances openness with privacy, creating a calm and ordered environment suited to family living, hospitality or retreat settings.
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View of the building façade
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Ulu Farmhouse
Ulu Farmhouse
Architectural Design Package
150 m² | 2 Bedrooms | 2 Floors
Based on our own home in the Borneo rainforest, the Farmhouse combines open living spaces, natural ventilation and efficient use of space. It is designed for long term living, with a layout refined through real world experience.
A two storey homestead designed for everyday living. The Farmhouse blueprint is based on our own home in Borneo. It is an innovative two storey design with a central ground floor space for kitchen and living, and an integrated ensuite to keep the layout efficient and connected.
The heart of the home is an open living and kitchen space that extends onto a generous terrace, creating a seamless connection between indoors and outdoors. The ground floor bedroom provides accessibility and convenience, while the upper floor offers a private retreat with elevated views and natural light.
The design blends traditional village living with a clearer contemporary organisation, creating openness and flow. Built with a timber frame and bamboo infill wall panels, it is adaptable. The roof finish can be chosen to suit context and preference.
View of the open plan kitchen
Architectural drawing of the elevation
View of the first floor living space
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Michi Villa
Michi Villa
Architectural Design Package
80 m² | 2 Bedrooms | 2 Floors
The design blends Balinese and Japanese influences into a clear two part composition.
One side is a solid cement core that anchors the building. It contains the kitchen, washroom, laundry and services, with a roof terrace above as an open, uncovered outdoor space.
The second is a taller timber structure that holds the living area, bedrooms and balcony space. It is lighter, more open and focused on air and movement.
Together they create contrast and balance. The solid volume carries function and structure, while the timber volume brings lightness and daily living. A compact, intelligent layout inspired by the Michi archives.
Architectural drawing of the first floor plan
View of the building
Architectural drawing of the elevation
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Gili House
Gili House
Architectural Design Package
60 m² | 2 Bedrooms | 2 Floors
A compact home organised as two volumes connected through an open plan kitchen and living space with an enclosed pantry for storage.
The washrooms sit outside under the roof overhang, with a shower open to the air, designed for airflow, simplicity and climate response. A side stair leads to a roof terrace, extending the living space upwards and creating an additional outdoor room.
The form is efficient and logical, with a raised offset roof that improves ventilation and gives the house a clear spatial rhythm. A small, smart system where every part has purpose and the whole feels open, adaptable and easy to build.
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View from the 3D model
Architectural view of the first floor
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Beach Hut
Beach Hut
Architectural Design Package
36 m² | 1 Bedroom | 1 Floor
A compact, modular beach hut system built from repeated, standard components that bolt together into a clear, symmetrical layout.
At the front is an open living space with a daybed and dining area, extending into a sheltered terrace for relaxed outdoor use.
Behind this sits a private bedroom with a small kitchenette, keeping essentials self contained and efficient. The washrooms are placed positioned beneath the roof overhang , with the toilet and shower along the wall to protected from weather.
View from the 3D model
Architectural view of the building
View from the 3D model
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Pavilions
Pavilions
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AN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND BUILD PLATFORM
Modular design systems for building in the tropics
Modular design systems for building in the tropics
Architectural blueprints for tropical living
Architectural blueprints for tropical living
Workshop
Pagoda
Cabin
Canopy
Pavilion
Pavilions Collection
Pavilions Collection
While our Homes collection focuses on everyday living, this Pavilion collection explores places to gather, learn, work, rest and connect. From bamboo workshops and community pavilions to retreat cabins and landscape shelters, these designs create adaptable environments that support a wide range of activities while remaining closely connected to nature.
Bamboo Workshop
Bamboo Workshop
Architectural Design Package
12 m² extendable module
This is a simple modular bamboo frame using standardised lengths to create a repetitive and extendable shelter system, allowing the space to scale and adapt along its axis.
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Bamboo Pagoda
Bamboo Pagoda
Architectural Design Package
30 m² covered area
This bamboo pavilion designed for gathering, with built in benches, the roof is self supporting, using a reciprocal petal formation.
This is a compact circular structure designed for close gathering, where people can sit and actually hear each other. It supports conversation, exchange, and small community interaction. The edges of the roof undulate gently, giving the pavilion a flowing appearance that feels open and dynamic. It has been built on Gili Island and is used within a resort setting as a retreat, meeting and greeting space.
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Bamboo Cabin
Bamboo Cabin
Architectural Design Package
40 m² of floor area
A simple bamboo hut with a closed room at ground level and a living space above, set beneath the curves of the bamboo roof, accessed by central covered bamboo steps.
It can become a series of sleeping units in a resort setting. It can hold small workshops or learning spaces. It can be a tree house style living space or a place for play and gathering. It has already been built in Bali and used as an educational school space, proving its adaptability in real use.
Bamboo Canopy
Bamboo Canopy
Architectural Design Package
30 m² covered area
A beautiful simple canopy with overlapping roof sections, each with rolled ends that allow for easy adjustment of the canvas lengths.
This is a lightweight adaptable structure designed to respond to changing landscape heights. Following the steep slope of the land, the canopy forms an inviting sheltered space that protects the areas below from rain while still allowing filtered light to move through.
The core form is a simple pitched roof system that can sit within different environments. It is designed to work with either a tensile canopy layer or a more practical plastic roof sheeting depending on context and use. It has been built in Bali and is currently used as part of a glamping site.
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Timber Pavilion
Timber Pavilion
Architectural Design Package
26 m² of floor area
This design blends Balinese and Japanese influences into a simple modular form.
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Your architectural design package
Your architectural design package
A clear path from concept to consultation
A clear path from concept to consultation
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A coordinated design for your project
Every project begins with a fully coordinated 3D BIM model. This digital model forms the foundation of the entire design package, ensuring that plans, sections, elevations and construction information all originate from a single source of truth.
Unlike traditional drawing packages where information is often duplicated across multiple files, our BIM workflow keeps everything connected. Changes made to the model are reflected throughout the drawing set, improving coordination, reducing errors and creating a clearer path from design to construction.
What is included
What is included
Fully coordinated digital BIM model
Fully coordinated digital BIM model
Your project is developed as an advanced 3D Building Information Model (BIM). Every wall, roof, column, floor and building component exists within the model and can be viewed in three dimensions.
This allows you to fully understand the building before construction begins while providing a robust foundation for consultants, builders and fabricators working on the project.
Consultant ready drawing package
Consultant ready drawing package
All plans, sections, elevations and key construction information are generated directly from the BIM model.
Because every drawing is linked to the same central model, the entire package remains coordinated and consistent. What you see in the 3D model is what appears in the drawings, creating a clear and reliable reference throughout the design and construction process.
Optional Services
Optional Services
Physical scale model
Physical scale model
We can produce a physical scale model of your building, allowing you to explore the design in a tangible way.
Many clients find that a physical model provides a deeper understanding of space, structure and construction sequencing than drawings alone. Models can also be used onsite as a communication tool during construction.
Architectural visualisations
Architectural visualisations
If you would like to explore particular spaces, materials or atmospheres in greater detail, we can create interior and exterior visualisations of selected areas of the project.
These images help communicate design intent, test ideas and support decision making before construction begins.
Material specification and detailing
Material specification and detailing
We can further develop the project through local material specification and detailed component design.
This process refines construction methods, material selections and key junctions, creating greater clarity for costing, engineering review and site execution.
Design and build consultancy
Design and build consultancy
We can remain involved throughout the process, providing ongoing guidance, design review and project support as the building develops onsite.
Together we review progress, answer questions, coordinate with local teams and help resolve design decisions as they arise, ensuring the project remains aligned with the original vision while responding to site conditions.
Clients are welcome to visit us at Ngapuh Homestead in Malaysia and experience our own designed and built home firsthand.
Seeing a completed project allows you to understand the principles behind our work, explore construction details in person and connect with trusted builders, craftspeople and suppliers within our network.
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