MIV PADI Rest Area
MIV Architects · 2024
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ArchitectMIV Architects
Year2024
LocationAnabanua, Indonesia
Coordinates3.9258° S, 120.0576° E
TypeArchitecture · Infrastructure, Public Space · Promenade
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A roadside rest area along the Trans Sulawesi highway in South Sulawesi by MIV Architects — four building masses arranged around a lotus pond in a rice field landscape, containing café, prayer room, and facilities.
PADI Rest Area is a 1,100 m² roadside facility by MIV Architects (Ar. Muhammad Ikhsan Hamiru, IAI & Partners), completed in 2024 along the Trans Sulawesi highway in Anabanua village, Wajo Regency. The project takes its name from the Indonesian word for rice ('padi'), referencing the surrounding agricultural landscape of paddy fields. Four distinct building masses are arranged around a central lotus pond: a café and restaurant, public toilets, a management building, and a musholla (prayer room). The architecture draws from vernacular South Sulawesi building traditions — steeply pitched roofs and elevated structures — reinterpreted in a contemporary formal language. The project demonstrates how roadside infrastructure can be treated as an architectural proposition, transforming a utilitarian programme into a place worth stopping for.
Architecture · InfrastructurePublic Space · Promenade
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