arboris koh dach – Arboris Art & Architecture

Arboris Koh Dach

Arboris Koh Dach is a villa rustica in the Khmer style designed and built by ourselves as our weekend home and permanent residence of our dogs. Set in the shrubs of idyllic Mekong island Koh Dach, northern Phnom Penh, the villa is two storeys high, the first floor of modern concrete work and the second of hard wood. Traditional Khmer wood architecture was studied and master carpenters were consulted to enable the making of the upper floor which is purely structured of reclaimed wood retrieved from older houses. In the end, five civilian Khmer houses were expensed.
To facilitate the old style with convenience, modern plumbing and cooking functions were added in. The villa is of two bedrooms, two bathrooms, one kitchen/living room and a sizeable study with shutter windows and top-to-bottom glass. The neighbourhood is friendly. Palm trees, birds and squirrels are the daily company. Outside the property, markets and local resorts with restaurants are easily reached by bicycle rides.
Koh Dach, translated Silk Island, has been the traditional venue of nourishing for the Khmer silk worm due to the island’s relatively mild climate and primitive rural environment. The average family often owns a manual weaving machine and men and women are still seen pedalling it to weave, distancing their insula from the vibrant booming city that is merely a river’s width away.

Arboris Koh Dach is a villa rustica in the Khmer style designed and built by ourselves as our weekend home and permanent residence of our dogs. Set in the shrubs of idyllic Mekong island Koh Dach, northern Phnom Penh, the villa is two storeys high, the first floor of modern concrete work and the second of hard wood. Traditional Khmer wood architecture was studied and master carpenters were consulted to enable the making of the upper floor which is purely structured of reclaimed wood retrieved from older houses. In the end, five civilian Khmer houses were expensed.
To facilitate the old style with convenience, modern plumbing and cooking functions were added in. The villa is of two bedrooms, two bathrooms, one kitchen/living room and a sizeable study with shutter windows and top-to-bottom glass. The neighbourhood is friendly. Palm trees, birds and squirrels are the daily company. Outside the property, markets and local resorts with restaurants are easily reached by bicycle rides.
Koh Dach, translated Silk Island, has been the traditional venue of nourishing for the Khmer silk worm due to the island’s relatively mild climate and primitive rural environment. The average family often owns a manual weaving machine and men and women are still seen pedalling it to weave, distancing their insula from the vibrant booming city that is merely a river’s width away.

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