Villa Isola

The Villa Isola (now Bumi Siliwangi ) is an Art Deco building in the northern part of Bandung, the capital of the province of West Java in Indonesia. The villa was built in the years 1932/1933 for the Dutch media tycoon Dominique Willem Berretty. Built it has also the Dutch architect, sculptor and painter Charles Prosper Wolff Schoemaker. In addition to two large gardens, the complex extends over an area of nearly 120,000 square meters.

Use history

Berretty lived there only for a few months, on a flight crash of Batavia to Amsterdam because he died in 1934. The Villa Isola was then first converted into a hotel. During the Japanese occupation in Indonesia (then the Dutch East Indies ) has served the property in 1942 as the headquarters of the Japanese army for Bandung. After the Indonesian Declaration of Independence in August 1945, the Villa Isola was renovated and expanded to another floor. From then on she was called " Bumi Siliwangi ". As of October 1954, the villa was converted into an educational institution. To date, the Dean of the " University of Education " resides ( Indonesian: Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia) in the building complex.

Architecture

The architectural style Schoemakers was dominated by the local Javanese philosophy. The building design is reminiscent of the Candi of Indonesia in the east of Java ( for example: Borobudur ). Circular shapes determine the complex as architectural main theme. On the ground floor is the entrance hall, the floor above is the family room. On the second floor is a large bedroom facing south, connected by two corridors to the east and west terraces. Guest rooms and entertainment rooms with bar located on the floor above. As the building is leaning against a slope paragraph, it has on the south side of an additional floor, which was used as a rest area.

Two gardens at different levels surround the plant.