The Red Villa

The Red Villa, Jalan Taman Sari 78.

This house was designed by R.L.A Schoemaker to fulfill the housing needs for the professors at the Institute of Technology of Bandung. The building was designed using ballast bricks. As the bricks were not plastered as in the case of most other buildings in Bandung, the house was nicknamed Villa Merah for the red of the exposed brick Schoemaker intended the construction to show that not all brick buildings require a plaster finish to be beautiful.